Strategic Finance Lead - AI
Perplexity AI · San Francisco
Applied AIremotelead$190k–$240k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead the economics of AI products from per-request cost to portfolio margin.
- Build pricing and model-deployment models that guide product strategy.
- Own product-margin methodology reconciling revenue and inference cost.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Analytical finance builder who thrives at the intersection of finance and AI product strategy and loves creating margin frameworks from scratch in fast-moving environments.
Requirements
- 4+ years in strategic finance, private equity, growth equity, consulting, or investment banking
- Exceptional analytical skills synthesizing data into insights and complex operating models
- Problem-solving and critical thinking for product margin and unit economics frameworks
- Attention to detail getting to source of truth on usage, revenue, and cost data
- Comfort working cross-functionally and communicating finance to non-finance audiences
- Sound commercial judgment across pricing, packaging, discounting and growth-margin tradeoffs
- Track record partnering with technical and product teams to drive optimization
- Bias to action and experience driving outcomes under tight timelines
- Background in AI, ML, or consumption-based models with complex cost structures
- remote policy
- Hybrid - in-person 2-3 days per week
Lab profile
About Perplexity AI
Builds AI search answers and agentic Computer to turn knowledge into action.
What they build
- Perplexity AI answer engine
- Perplexity Computer agentic assistant
- Comet AI browser and desktop apps
Known for
- Agentic AI and agent capabilities
- Applied AI product engineering
- Cross-platform apps across web, mobile and desktop
- Multimodal AI and integrations
Key facts
- Founded in 2022
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Serves millions of users daily
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