[Remote] Strategic Finance Lead, AI Infrastructure & R&D

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. The Strategic Finance Lead will serve as the finance owner for AI infrastructure and R&D, partnering with senior technical and finance leaders to guide investments, planning, forecasting, infrastructure economics, and build-versus-buy decisions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary finance partner to the CTO and R&D leadership, shaping how TRM invests across AI, cloud and compute infrastructure, engineering capacity, and product development
• Own the economic framework for AI, cloud, and compute—connecting usage, billing, and operating data to forecasts and investment decisions
• Lead the financial evaluation of major R&D investments from the initial business case through decision, execution, and measurement
• Own R&D planning, forecasting, and performance management across engineering headcount, AI and cloud infrastructure, compute, software, and external partners—surfacing changes early enough for leaders to act
• Partner with the Head of AI, Engineering, Infrastructure, Procurement, and Accounting to improve infrastructure economics, evaluate major commitments, and translate analysis into action
• Turn complex R&D performance into a clear executive and board narrative: what changed, why it changed, and which decisions should follow
• Redesign R&D finance around AI, automation, and scalable systems so that more time goes toward shaping decisions and less toward assembling reporting

Skills

• 7+ years of experience across strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, investing, consulting, business operations, or a related analytical role. We care more about the complexity of the work you have owned, the quality of your judgment, and the influence you have had than an exact number of years
• A record of independently owning consequential work from end to end: framing an ambiguous question, structuring the analysis, developing a point of view, and driving a recommendation toward action
• Exceptional financial and analytical skills, including the ability to create driver-based forecasts, investment cases, and scalable decision frameworks from incomplete or complex data
• The communication skills and judgment to become a trusted partner to senior technical leaders, challenge assumptions constructively, and explain financial implications in plain language
• The ability and curiosity to learn technical systems quickly, understand how AI products and modern infrastructure are built and scaled, and translate those operating realities into financial insight
• Applied AI fluency: you can demonstrate how you have used AI to improve the speed or quality of analysis, modeling, research, or recurring workflows—and how you evaluate the reliability of its output
• Relevant domain experience in one or more of the following areas: supporting Engineering, Product, Data Science, AI, or Infrastructure organizations; analyzing cloud, compute, AI infrastructure, or other usage-based technology costs; or evaluating vendor commitments, technical investments, product economics, and build-versus-buy decisions

Benefits

• TRM operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.

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