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Strategic Finance Lead - AI

Perplexity AI · San Francisco

Applied AIremotelead$190k–$240k
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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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