Lightning AI
Treasury Lead
San Francisco, California, United States · Senior
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About the role
- Through our merger with Voltage Park, a neocloud and AI Factory, Lightning AI combines developer-first software with cost-efficient, large-scale compute.
- We serve solo researchers, startups, and large enterprises.
Responsibilities
- Build and own the treasury function
- Select and implement the treasury management system (TMS) and integrate it with NetSuite and the company's banking infrastructure
- Develop the multi-year treasury roadmap, including process design, automation priorities, and FTE buildout
- Own daily cash positioning, short-term liquidity forecasting, and intercompany cash movement across the entities
- Own the 13-week operational cash forecast on a weekly cadence, and partner with FP&A on the 12-month and long-range cash forecast - providing the cash-conversion layer that translates the operating plan into liquidity outcomes
- Manage banking relationships, account structure, and bank fee analysis
- Manage existing debt facilities, vendor financing, and equipment financing across the group, including draw and repayment schedules, interest, and fees
- Lead negotiation and execution of new vendor financing arrangements with hardware OEMs in support of GPU and data center capex
- Manage banking relationships, account structure, and bank fee analysis; rationalize the post-merger banking footprint
- Build and operate the covenant compliance reporting cadence, including financial covenants, reporting covenants, and lender notification requirements
Requirements
- 8+ years of progressive treasury experience, with a mix of corporate treasury and ideally banking or capital markets exposure
- Experience selecting, implementing, or substantially upgrading a treasury management system
- Comfort with capex-heavy, capital-intensive business models, and a working understanding of how vendor financing, equipment financing, and asset-backed structures operate in practice
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to brief executives and translate treasury for non-treasury audiences
- Track record of cross-functional partnership with Accounting, FP&A, Legal, Tax, banks, lenders, and external advisors
- Prior treasury experience at a high-growth AI, cloud, infrastructure, or other capex-intensive technology company
- Experience supporting a first-year audit or significant treasury remediation
- Working knowledge of derivatives and hedge accounting concepts at an operational level - technical accounting is handled by the Corporate Accounting team
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field
- CTP, CFA, or MBA strongly preferred
Skills
- Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning.
- Teams get the tools they need for experimentation, training, and production inference, with security, observability, and control built in.
- The Way We Work
- Here's what that looks like in practice:
- Move with Urgency:
- Take Ownership:
Compensation
- $180,000 - $220,000 USD
- Annual learning and development allowance to support your professional growth.
Benefits
- We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support our employees' health, well-being, and long-term success:
- Comprehensive Health Coverage:
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents.
- 401(k) matching (U.S.) and pension contributions (U.K.).
- Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and floating holidays to support work-life balance.
- Paid Parental & Family Leave:
- Paid leave to support you and your family through life's important moments.
- Annual learning and development allowance to support your professional growth.
Company info
- Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning. Founded in 2019, we build an end-to-end platform for developing, training, and deploying AI systems-designed to take ideas from research to production with less friction.
- Through our merger with Voltage Park, a neocloud and AI Factory, Lightning AI combines developer-first software with cost-efficient, large-scale compute. Teams get the tools they need for experimentation, training, and production inference, with security, observability, and control built in.
- We serve solo researchers, startups, and large enterprises. Lightning AI operates globally with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and London, and is backed by Coatue, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Firstminute.
- Founded in 2019, we build an end-to-end platform for developing, training, and deploying AI systems-designed to take ideas from research to production with less friction.
- Lightning AI operates globally with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and London, and is backed by Coatue, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Firstminute.
- The people who thrive here are builders who move fast, communicate openly, take ownership, and continuously improve themselves, their teams, and our company.
- Move with Urgency: We move quickly, make thoughtful decisions, and keep momentum. We value action over perfection and learn by shipping.
- Take Ownership: We own outcomes, not just our individual work. We make decisions that move the company forward and follow through.
- Communicate Openly: We communicate directly, seek to understand, and create clarity for others. Honest conversations help us move faster together.
- Build Great Teams: We lead by example, empower others, and create healthy teams where people can do their best work.
- Raise the Bar: We're always improving ourselves. We learn from feedback, consistently challenge ourselves to grow, and focus on the work that matters most.
- Think Long-Term: We design for what's next. We create scalable systems, simplify complexity, and use AI and automation to amplify our impact.
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