Strategic Finance Senior Manager

Together AI Together AI · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · Finance

Strategic Finance Senior Manager at Together AI, a research-driven AI infrastructure company. This role focuses on providing financial insights, driving strategic decision-making, and optimizing business performance, with a significant emphasis on guiding the optimization and scaling of the company's compute infrastructure. The position requires strong financial modeling, business judgment, and the ability to partner with various functions like Engineering, Product, and GTM.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and drive strategic finance initiatives across the business, conducting complex financial analysis to deliver critical insights that empower cross-functional business partners to make data-driven decisions and enhance overall business performance
  2. You should expect to spend a meaningful amount of time on strategic and financial analysis related to scaling Together’s compute infrastructure, including building compute capacity, cost and cash flow forecasts, as well as tracking and driving towards optimal utilization of compute infrastructure
  3. Partner with Engineering, Product, Business Operations and GTM teams on financial analysis to support key value creation initiatives such as new product launches, assessment of unit economics, strategic business partnerships and resource allocation decisions
  4. Instill capital allocation oriented thinking across the business, with an emphasis of ROI-based decision making
  5. Design and build dashboards and processes to report on key financial and operational metrics to monitor and drive business performance on an ongoing basis

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of experience, including 2+ years in strategic finance paired with prior experience across private equity, growth equity, venture capital, consulting, and/or investment banking
  • Exceptional business judgment and intuition, coupled with strong problem-solving abilities, creativity, and critical thinking skills to tackle novel and complex challenges across the business
  • Exceptional financial modeling skills and a deep understanding of financial concepts, with the ability to distill complex analyses and synthesize data into clear, actionable insights that highlight the key drivers for decision-making
  • Ability to build relationships, collaborate with cross-functional business partners and communicate financial information to non-financial audiences clearly and concisely
  • Strong work ethic and self-directed with ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize and work under tight timelines with close attention to detail

What the JD emphasized

  • optimize and scale our compute infrastructure
  • strategic and financial guidance to help Together optimize and scale our compute infrastructure
  • scaling Together’s compute infrastructure