TRM Labs
Strategic Finance Lead, R&D and AI Infrastructure
United States · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years across strategic finance, FP&A, business operations, or a related role; the posting also says complexity owned and influence matter more than an exact number of years.
About the job
Partners with the CTO and R&D leaders to guide investment in AI, cloud, compute, and engineering through financial models, forecasts, cost analysis, and executive recommendations.
What you'll do
- Build AI-assisted financial models and forecasts for cloud, compute, AI spend, and R&D headcount capacity.
- Analyze infrastructure costs and AI spend against ROI, and recommend optimization and investment decisions with technical leaders.
- Lead investment cases and communicate R&D performance and recommendations to executives and the board.
What they ask for
- Own consequential work end to end, from framing an ambiguous question through analysis and recommendation to action.
- Strong data-informed modeling skills, including driver-based forecasts, investment cases, and capacity models.
- Hands-on experience analyzing cloud, compute, AI, or other usage-based technology costs, and partnering with technical leaders.
- Applied AI fluency, including improving modeling, research, or recurring workflows and checking output reliability.
Tools
Pigment, GCP, AWS, Slack, Notion
AI focus
Use AI to model and optimize infrastructure and AI spending, track spend against ROI, automate finance workflows, support scenario analysis, and improve modeling, research, and recurring work.
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