Strategic Finance Lead - Infrastructure

About the role

About the role Perplexity is seeking a Strategic Finance - Infrastructure Lead to provide financial leadership over our cloud service provider (CSP) spend, compute and model capacity planning, and broader infrastructure economics. This person will be a core partner to our engineering, infrastructure, and product teams, bringing financial rigor and judgment to the most consequential cost decisions the company makes. You’ll build the models that underpin our capacity investments, own the day-to-day CSP and model provider relationships, and help shape how we plan for infrastructure as the business scales. The role partners closely with Accounting and Engineering leadership to keep our compute and CSP strategy tightly aligned with the company’s financial trajectory. Responsibilities: Capacity Planning & Infrastructure FP&A Build and maintain multi-year capacity forecasts and scenario models across CPU, GPU, and accelerator footprints Partner with Strategic Finance leadership on long-horizon capacity decisions, including reserved/committed structures and build-out sequencing Lead ROI and trade-off analysis for new platforms, hardware generations, and efficiency initiatives Trans