Strategic Finance Manager, Infrastructure and R&D
Fireworks AI · San Mateo
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Infrastructureremotemid-level$180k–$210k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own the financial model for GPU fleet capacity, utilization, and unit economics.
- Partner with infra and engineering on capacity planning and vendor negotiations.
- Build reporting that makes compute and R&D economics legible to leadership.
Ideal candidate
Early to mid-career finance operator with IB/PE roots who loves digging into physical systems and messy data to explain how the business runs and build scalable processes.
Requirements
- 4-7 years of experience beginning with investment banking, private equity, or equivalent
- Ideally subsequent time in strategic finance, FP&A, or corporate development at a technology company
- Expert financial modeling skills with ability to build from scratch and translate outputs into recommendations
- Genuine interest in operations and understanding the system underneath the numbers
- Comfort with messy and imperfect data
- Excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfortable being both architect and operator with high ownership and bias toward action
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
Lab profile
About Fireworks AI
Platform for specialized intelligence to build, train, and serve tailored AI models.
What they build
- Platform to build, train, and serve tailored AI models
- Hundreds of open models for production AI
- Text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal models
Known for
- Founded by team behind PyTorch
- Specialized intelligence tailored to customer data and workflows
- Production-grade AI for text, image, audio, and multimodal workloads
Key facts
- Backed by AMD, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, TCV, and Atreides