Chief Financial Officer

Overview

The organization is seeking a Chief Financial Officer / Head of Strategic Finance to lead capital strategy, fundraising, investor and lender relationships, and the finance organization for a data center and energy-backed infrastructure platform. This is a full-time, remote role with New York City preferred.

Responsibilities

• Capital strategy: Design the capital stack for each data center, including construction and project debt, equity, joint ventures, and LP structures.
• Fundraising end to end: Build the model, story, and materials; run the process with banks, private credit, infrastructure funds, and strategic investors; negotiate terms; close.
• Relationship leadership: Serve as the primary point of contact for lenders and investors; grow a network that makes future raises faster and more cost-effective.
• Deal economics: Partner with the BD team on lease structures with neocloud and AI customers to ensure projects are financeable.
• Finance organization oversight: Oversee accounting and reporting across the organization and the data center business in partnership with the Head of Finance; position the business for institutional capital.
• Equity and valuation: Partner on the employee equity plan and the valuation story as the data center business moves into its own parent company.

First 90 Days

• Meet the founders, sites, and numbers.
• Engage with capital relationships already in motion.
• Present a financing plan and timeline to leadership.
• Drive the first raise forward; by day 90, the board should see a clear path to funding the first data center.

Requirements

• Personally led capital raises for capital-intensive infrastructure (data centers, power, utilities, energy, or digital infrastructure) and closed them.
• Maintains a network of lenders, investors, and LPs who are willing to take your call.
• Experience likely includes one of the following:
  • Director or Managing Director in investment banking
  • Infrastructure investor
  • Finance leader at a developer
  • Prior CFO experience is a plus, not a requirement.
• Fluent in project finance, debt structuring, and creating/explaining investor materials; able to communicate capital stack concepts to a broad audience.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or accounting required.
• MBA, CFA, or CPA preferred.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary, annual bonus, and equity.
• Full-time employee benefits:
  • Medical (UnitedHealthcare, including an HSA-eligible plan)
  • Dental (Delta Dental)
  • Vision (VSP)
  • 401(k) with a 3% company contribution (traditional and Roth options)
  • Bitcoin bonus: 1% of annual gross earnings paid in Bitcoin
  • Company-paid life and AD&D, long-term disability, and an Employee Assistance Program
  • HSA, FSA, and dependent care FSA
  • Paid time off

Location

Remote (US-New York City preferred)