Lambda
Strategic Finance Lead
$199K–$265K
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years; includes time inside an operating company working with non-finance teams.
About the job
Owns the finance evaluation and decision processes for Lambda’s major projects, customer deals, capital commitments, unit economics, and public-cloud pricing.
What you'll do
- Assess sites, deals, and major purchases; make returns, risks, and assumptions clear for decision-makers.
- Build repeatable evaluation systems, templates, and review cadence; align teams on assumptions and frame trade-offs.
- Present financial analysis at deal and investment reviews, and support unit economics and public-cloud pricing.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in strategic finance, corporate development, investment banking, infrastructure investing, or a similar role, including operating-company experience with non-finance teams.
- Experience evaluating large, long-lived capital commitments and explaining returns and risk to a general audience.
- AI-native, with clear examples of processes created and improved with AI tools.
- Clear writing and presentation skills; ability to work with engineers and operators and build repeatable frameworks.
Nice to have
- Experience in datacenters, cloud infrastructure, telecom, energy, or another capital-intensive industry; or with supply chain or capital markets decisions from the finance side.
- Experience with unit economics or pricing in a consumption or infrastructure business.
Pay
$199K – $265K (USD, base salary)
AI focus
Create and improve processes using AI tools.
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