LILA has created the world's first Operating System for Science powered by Scientific Superintelligence™. Backed by General Catalyst.
About the role
Lila Sciences is scaling its Scientific Superintelligence platform, and we’re building the finance backbone to match. As the Finance Business Partner for our AI/ML and Infrastructure teams, you’ll partner with Technology leaders to turn data into decisions and bring structure to ambiguity.
What they're looking for
- 7 to 10+ years in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, or similar analytical roles
- Startup or scale-up experience strongly preferred
- Demonstrated zero-to-one build experience across driver-based models, annual planning, rolling forecasts, KPI dashboards, and management reporting
- Hands-on experience with technology cost management, including cloud infrastructure, compute/GPU, or AI/ML cost structures
- Strong financial acumen and accounting fluency
- Ability to work with imperfect datasets and reconcile to source systems
More about this role
Lila Sciences is scaling its Scientific Superintelligence platform, and we’re building the finance backbone to match. As the Finance Business Partner for our AI/ML and Infrastructure teams, you’ll partner with Technology leaders to turn data into decisions and bring structure to ambiguity.
You’re a builder-operator who partners with technical leaders to drive financial clarity across complex and fast-moving cost surfaces: compute and GPU infrastructure, LLM usage and API spend, data storage, and pipelines. You stand up dynamic planning processes, design the KPI and reporting engine leaders rely on, and shape resource allocation across cloud infrastructure and AI/ML workloads.
- Serve as the primary finance business partner for AI/ML and Infrastructure teams, providing end-to-end financial leadership across planning, performance management, investment governance, and risk controls.
- Partner with Technology leaders to translate AI and infrastructure roadmaps into financial outcomes with clear P&L, cash, and capital implications.
- Produce Board and investor materials and support fundraising diligence with crisp analyses and data room preparation.
- Assist with cash runway modeling...
Browse similar: AI jobs · AI startup jobs · Startup jobs