Chief Financial Officer – GPU-as-a-Service

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the primary financial partner to the General Manager / Business Unit leader for the GPU-as-a-Service division and assist the Rackspace CFO with corporate reporting, governance, and enterprise financial strategy.

• Establish the financial operating model for launching, scaling, and creating long-term value.

• Oversee annual planning, long-term forecasting, and scenario analysis.

• Balance growth targets with profitability, disciplined financial management, and capital efficiency.

• Build and lead a specialized finance team, focusing on hiring and developing talent as the organization grows.

• Formulate and manage the capital strategy for GPU fleet expansion, infrastructure investments, and capacity planning.

• Assess CapEx versus OpEx trade-offs, depreciation timelines, and return on invested capital.

• Convert demand forecasts into financial and capacity plans in collaboration with technical and operational leaders.

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of GPU economics, utilization, fleet efficiency, cost curves, and generational shifts.

• Create pricing models that reflect GPU economics and customer consumption behavior.

• Assist in negotiations for significant enterprise and strategic customer contracts.

• Evaluate reserved capacity, spot capacity, and consumption-based pricing to maximize revenue and margins.

• Lead FP&A, reporting, and KPI dashboards for bookings, revenue, gross margin, utilization, and capital efficiency.

• Set operating metrics and conduct business reviews for timely, data-driven decision-making.

• Provide performance updates to the CEO, executive team, Board, and investors.

• Support executive partnerships with GPU, silicon, cloud, and infrastructure stakeholders through financial and commercial analysis.

• Analyze supply and deployment economics for capacity planning and procurement strategies.

• Contribute to the development of strategic partnerships that enhance economics, supply access, and long-term business resilience.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 15 years of executive finance leadership experience in high-growth technology, cloud, AI infrastructure, or capital-intensive sectors.

• Proven expertise in capital allocation, financial planning, infrastructure economics, pricing strategies, and performance management.

• Strong history of evaluating data center economics and structuring large-scale capital investment decisions, including build-vs-lease, depreciation, and return thresholds.

• Demonstrated experience in partnering on large-scale investments, strategic partnerships, commercial negotiations, and corporate development initiatives.

• Direct experience as a CFO or senior finance executive at a GPU cloud, neocloud, or infrastructure-as-a-service provider is strongly preferred.

• Proven capability to collaborate with CEOs and executive leadership teams to build and scale high-growth organizations.

• Track record of developing talent and leading cross-functional teams through periods of rapid growth and transformation.

• Entrepreneurial mindset that balances speed, innovation, and disciplined financial governance.

• Exceptional executive presence and communication abilities, with a talent for influencing Boards, investors, customers, and strategic partners.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field.

• A Master’s degree is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic.

• Disability or special-needs accommodation available upon request.