# Head of Compute and Capacity - Lithos AI at Unusual

- Company: Unusual
- What the company does: Unusual is a growth consultancy that helps companies win over a new audience: AI agents. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://unusual.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Posted: 2026-11-04
- Apply by: 2026-12-19
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/unusual/983f9fad-775e-45b0-b083-a86ff0a3c366?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/unusual-head-of-compute-and-capacity-lithos-ai/

## About the role

Own the multi-year capacity plan. Translate demand forecasts and the model roadmap into GPU, network and data-center requirements, and stay ahead of demand rather than chasing it. Run procurement across vendors. Source and negotiate GPU capacity, networking and colocation across neoclouds, colo providers, OEMs and hyperscalers. Build a vendor bench deep enough that no single supplier can hold us hostage. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years in compute capacity, infrastructure procurement or data-center commercial roles at a neocloud, colo provider, OEM or channel partner, or a hyperscaler capacity team
- You have personally negotiated and closed seven-figure-plus infrastructure contracts, including commit structures, drawdowns and SLA remedies, and can walk through one in detail
- You think and speak in numbers: $/GPU-hour, utilization, power density, delivery lead times, effective cost per unit of performance
- Working knowledge of current GPU generations, high-speed networking (InfiniBand/RoCE) and what separates a good cluster from an expensive one
- Comfortable as a team of one at first: building the spreadsheets, the processes and the vendor relationships yourself
- Nice to have: experience with capacity for AI inference or training workloads, or on the vendor side selling GPU capacity to AI labs

Tags: Lithos AI

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