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About the Role

We are seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to guide Inferact's growth, investment, and scaling strategies. This role involves developing rigorous financial models and providing clear recommendations on inference economics, pricing, commercial opportunities, compute spending, and hiring. You will collaborate with founders and various departments to evaluate growth priorities, understand profitability, and manage resource allocation. Key responsibilities include owning the operating model, budgeting, forecasting, headcount and expense planning, and cash runway scenarios, as well as supporting board discussions and fundraising efforts.

Responsibilities

Turn questions about inference economics, pricing, commercial opportunities, compute spending, and hiring into rigorous financial models and clear recommendations.
Partner closely with founders, engineering, infrastructure, go-to-market, People, and the Corporate Controller to evaluate growth and investment priorities.
Understand customer and product profitability, and make resource tradeoffs explicit.
Own the operating model, budgeting, rolling forecasts, headcount and expense planning, and cash runway scenarios.
Support board discussions and fundraising with clear financial narratives and decision materials.
Translate accounting inputs into a forward-looking view of the business and practical recommendations.
Evaluate unit economics, investment returns, pricing, and resource allocation.
Reconcile plans with accounting actuals, explain performance variances, and distinguish changes in business performance from timing, data, or modeling issues.
Combine financial and operational data into models that others can inspect, maintain, and use.
Challenge assumptions constructively and explain financial tradeoffs to technical and non-financial leaders.
Own ambiguous finance projects end-to-end, balancing strategic analysis with recurring planning and forecasting.
Prioritize useful decisions over unnecessary process.
Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams on compute costs, capacity commitments, utilization, and the financial implications of different deployment models.
Prepare board reporting, fundraising models, investor analyses, or decision materials for senior leadership.
Plan for a distributed or international organization, including headcount, hiring timing, and geographic cost differences.
Improve planning systems, dashboards, data integrations, or automated reporting.
Build strategic finance models, decision processes, or a planning foundation before a company had an established finance operating cadence.
Connect product usage, infrastructure costs, and commercial terms to customer or product profitability and influence concrete business decisions.
Improve forecast quality and management visibility without slowing execution or requiring a large finance team.
Build trusted, self-service financial reporting or use automation to reduce repetitive analysis while preserving review and data quality.

Requirements

Experience personally owning strategic finance, business planning, or financial analysis for a growing technology business, with evidence that your work influenced operating or investment decisions.
Ability to reconcile plans with accounting actuals, explain performance variances, and distinguish changes in business performance from timing, data, or modeling issues.
Comfort owning ambiguous finance projects end-to-end, balancing strategic analysis with recurring planning and forecasting, and prioritizing useful decisions over unnecessary process.
Experience with AI infrastructure, cloud platforms, developer tools, usage-based software, or businesses where infrastructure cost and customer consumption materially affect margins.
Experience partnering with engineering and infrastructure teams on compute costs, capacity commitments, utilization, and the financial implications of different deployment models.
Experience preparing board reporting, fundraising models, investor analyses, or decision materials for senior leadership.
Experience planning for a distributed or international organization, including headcount, hiring timing, and geographic cost differences.
Experience improving planning systems, dashboards, data integrations, or automated reporting.
Built strategic finance models, decision processes, or a planning foundation before a company had an established finance operating cadence.
Connected product usage, infrastructure costs, and commercial terms to customer or product profitability and influenced a concrete business decision.
Improved forecast quality and management visibility without slowing execution or requiring a large finance team.
Built trusted, self-service financial reporting or used automation to reduce repetitive analysis while preserving review and data quality.

Skills

Strong financial modeling skills, including driver-based revenue and expense forecasts, headcount plans, and the ability to connect the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow.
Commercial and operating judgment: you can evaluate unit economics, investment returns, pricing, and resource allocation while making assumptions and uncertainty explicit.
Advanced spreadsheet and analytical skills.
Strong communication and business-partnering skills.
SQL or lightweight scripting is helpful but not required.

Location

San Francisco, California

Work Type

On-site
Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

To be determined based on the final role scope, background, skills, and experience.

Benefits

Generous health, dental, and vision benefits
401(k) company match

About the Company

Inferact's mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster.
Founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, we sit at the intersection of models and hardware, a position that took years to build.