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Strategic Finance Lead - AI

About the RoleWe are seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to help lead the economics of our AI products. In this role, you will be a key partner to our product, inference, and data teams, providing financial expertise to optimize model spend an

Company

Perplexity

Location

San Francisco

Status

Closed

Posted

2026-09-01T19:09:29.116+00:00

Perplexity is hiring a Strategic Finance Lead to own the economics of its AI products. It covers budgeting and forecasting for inference and model spend, building product-margin models that reconcile revenue and serving costs from production usage data, and weighing how pricing, packaging and deployment decisions affect margin. The role partners with product, inference and data engineering teams. The posting asks for four or more years in strategic finance, private equity, growth equity, consulting or investment banking. It is based in San Francisco, with two to three in-person days weekly.