# Strategic Finance Director

**Company**: Thinking Machines Lab
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $275,000 - $325,000
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Thinking Machines Lab's mission is to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence. We're building a future where everyone has access to the knowledge and tools to make AI work for their unique needs and goals.

As a member of our Strategic Finance / FP&A team, you will operate at the core of our finance organisation, driving the financial strategy for major functional domains. You will build and maintain sophisticated financial models, analyse business performance and investment trade-offs, partner closely with leaders across the business, and deliver executive-level presentations to inform decision-making.

## Responsibilities

- Develop, own and maintain financial models to support planning, forecasting, and strategic decision-making.

- Help us stand up a strong compute measurement and budgeting process.

- Lead budgeting and quarterly/annual forecasting processes; analyse variances and translate them into actionable insight.

- Partner cross-functionally with business stakeholders to understand drivers, demand, capacity, against financial targets.

- Provide financial guidance on major investment decisions.

- Develop and monitor key metrics and dashboards.

- Prepare high-quality executive & Board-facing deliverables.

- Stay abreast of market and competitive dynamics.

- Partner with accounting and other finance functions to ensure alignment of financial planning.

## Qualifications

- 10+ years of experience in strategic finance, corporate finance, FP&A, investment banking, consulting, growth/private equity, or an equivalent high-growth technology environment.

- Proven expertise in financial modelling and forecasting.

- Strong business partnering skills.

- High comfort with ambiguity, rapid change, and scaling-up environments.

- Excellent communication skills.

- Familiarity with SQL, BI tools and advanced Excel/Google Sheets proficiency.

- Experience with AI or R&D-heavy companies is a major plus.

## Logistics

- Location: San Francisco, California.

- Compensation: $275,000 - $325,000.

- Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas.

- Benefits: Generous health, dental, and vision benefits, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, and relocation support.

## Skills

### Required
- financial modelling
- forecasting
- business partnering
- SQL
- BI tools
- Excel
- Google Sheets

### Nice to have
- AI
- R&D-heavy companies

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