Head of Capital Markets

Armada Armada · Enterprise · Headquarters, San Francisco · G&A - Finance

This role is for a financing operator at an AI infrastructure company, responsible for leading complex growth-stage capital raises, building financial narratives, and engaging with sophisticated investors. It requires strong financial modeling, strategic finance, and capital markets experience, with a focus on understanding and articulating infrastructure economics.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead equity and strategic financing processes end-to-end
  2. Build and maintain operating models, forecasts, and scenario analyses
  3. Synthesize AI infrastructure, sovereign AI, edge compute, ruggedized deployments, and software orchestration into investor-ready materials
  4. Engage directly with sophisticated investors and strategic stakeholders
  5. Bring a high-ownership, low-ego mentality — no “IR-ish” polish, just strong judgment and execution

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience across investment banking, strategic finance, corporate development, growth equity, or related fields
  • Prior experience at a top-tier investment bank, private equity / growth equity firm, or high-growth technology company
  • Strong financial modeling, valuation, and analytical capabilities
  • Experience supporting or executing growth-stage financing transactions
  • Ability to understand and communicate complex infrastructure and technology business models
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • High degree of ownership, operational rigor, and attention to detail
  • Comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments

Nice to have

  • Prior experience at a relevant AI infrastructure or high-growth infrastructure businesses
  • Experience in AI infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, defense technology, data centers, compute platforms, or adjacent sectors
  • Exposure to sovereign investors, infrastructure funds, or late-stage crossover financings
  • Experience managing diligence-intensive financing processes
  • MBA, CFA, or advanced finance/accounting background is a plus
  • Experience leading M&A processes and cross-border transactions a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • financing operator
  • complex growth-stage capital raises
  • institutional-grade financial narratives
  • sophisticated investors
  • infrastructure economics
  • GPU utilization
  • capex structures
  • margin scaling
  • AI infrastructure
  • sovereign AI
  • edge compute
  • ruggedized deployments
  • software orchestration
  • diligence-intensive financing processes