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Director of FP&A

Gimlet Labs· G&A
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San Francisco, CA$275k - $300kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Director of FP&A responsible for building Gimlet’s FP&A function, owning consolidated financial models, budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis for a rapidly scaling AI infrastructure business, with a focus on cash burn, liquidity, runway, and compute economics.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end annual operating plan and budget process, including periodic reforecasts. Track performance against plan, identify risks and opportunities, and partner with department heads to optimize costs and translate financial insights into operational decisions.
  • Own the consolidated financial model and operating assumptions, with clear visibility into business unit economics. Integrate inputs from Strategic Finance and other teams to develop accurate, data-driven projections and guidance.
  • Establish the financial framework for allocating resources across headcount, spending, and capacity.
  • Own the consolidated cash forecast and analysis of runway and net working capital, including operating cash flow scenarios and sensitivities.
  • Conduct forward-looking scenario and sensitivity analyses and historical variance analyses, translating findings into clear, actionable recommendations.
  • Partner with key stakeholders on capacity planning, customer contracts, leases, and other strategic projects. Build dynamic, well-structured models with stress-tested assumptions, clear outputs, and documented logic.
  • Partner with GTM on commercial FP&A, providing projections and analysis to inform revenue planning and commercial decisions.
  • Partner with Strategic Finance to build and maintain long-range planning, incorporating growth scenarios, financial targets, and the impact of strategic initiatives.
  • Partner with Accounting to establish timely, high-quality monthly and quarterly financial reporting.
  • Develop and refine KPIs and regularly updated dashboards that measure financial and operational performance. Report to executive leadership and prepare analysis and narratives for board and investor materials.
  • Build and lead a high-performing FP&A team, continuously improving tools, models, and processes as the company scales.

Qualifications

  • Approximately 8–10+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or investment banking combined with operating finance.
  • Demonstrated ownership of consolidated models, budgets, forecasts, and budget-versus-actual analysis.
  • Strong modeling skills, including independently developing assumptions, evaluating scenarios, and identifying key business drivers.
  • Substantial exposure to data centers or large-scale infrastructure capex, including planning and monitoring major investments.
  • An understanding of how hardware capex, deployment costs, power, cooling, and operating expenses affect margins, depreciation, and cash flow.
  • Strong data analytics skills and the ability to translate complex information into clear recommendations.
  • Experience partnering with technical teams and business leaders and communicating to financial and nonfinancial audiences.

Skills

Required:Financial modelingStrategic planning
Last updated Oct 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on building high performance AI systems.

Autonomous kernel generation for heterogeneous hardwareCost-aware optimization frameworks for AI workloadsGimlet cloudHeadless hardware architectures for serving AI inferenceHybrid edge/cloud workload partitioning and orchestrationSLA-aware dynamic datacenter scheduling of AI agent workloadsUniversal AI compiler for heterogeneous hardwarebessemer-ai-infrastructure-2026
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