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Gimlet is building a multi-silicon neocloud platform designed for fast, efficient AI inference. The company combines large-scale compute infrastructure with an execution platform that partitions AI workloads and maps each stage to the hardware best suited to run it. Gimlet works with foundation labs, hyperscalers, and AI-native companies.
As Director of FP&A, you will build and lead Gimlet's FP&A function from the ground up, owning all financial planning, analysis, and modeling for a rapidly scaling AI infrastructure business. You will be responsible for the consolidated financial model, budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis. Key focus areas include cash burn, liquidity, runway, and the unit economics of deploying compute infrastructure.
You will partner closely with executive leadership, Strategic Finance, Infrastructure, and GTM teams to translate company strategy into operating plans and capital allocation decisions. You will build sophisticated models connecting customer demand, infrastructure investment, and operating costs, providing leadership with clear visibility into assumptions, risks, and tradeoffs.
In your first 12–18 months, you will lead the annual operating plan and budget process with periodic reforecasts; own the consolidated financial model and operating assumptions; establish the financial framework for resource allocation across headcount, spending, and capacity; own consolidated cash forecasting and runway analysis; conduct scenario and sensitivity analyses; partner on capacity planning and strategic projects; support GTM with commercial FP&A; build long-range planning with Strategic Finance; establish high-quality monthly and quarterly financial reporting; develop KPIs and dashboards for board and investor materials; and build and lead a high-performing FP&A team.
This is a hands-on leadership role combining strong financial modeling, business judgment, and data fluency. You will establish the tools, processes, and team infrastructure needed to support Gimlet's next stage of growth.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8–10+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or investment banking combined with operating finance
- Demonstrated ownership of consolidated models, budgets, forecasts, and budget-versus-actual analysis
- Strong modeling skills, including independently developing assumptions, evaluating scenarios, and identifying key business drivers
- Substantial exposure to data centers or large-scale infrastructure capex, including planning and monitoring major investments
- Understanding of how hardware capex, deployment costs, power, cooling, and operating expenses affect margins, depreciation, and cash flow
- Strong data analytics skills and ability to translate complex information into clear recommendations
- Experience partnering with technical teams and business leaders and communicating to financial and nonfinancial audiences
STRONG CANDIDATES MAY ALSO HAVE:
- Experience at a hyperscaler, neocloud, colocation provider, data center developer, or infrastructure-intensive operator
- Background in digital infrastructure banking, investing, or project finance paired with in-house planning experience
- Familiarity with AI infrastructure revenue models, usage-based forecasting, and inference unit economics
- Experience building an FP&A function, implementing planning software, and developing a team
- Experience scaling a technology company through rapid growth and significant capital investment
- Familiarity with debt covenants and incorporating financing obligations into forecasts
- Experience preparing board and investor materials and evaluating customer contracts, leases, or strategic transactions
