Strategic Operations, Industrial Compute

Responsibilities

Shape and Drive Compute Strategy

• Define and operationalize long-term compute strategy across infrastructure providers, cloud partners, suppliers, and internal organizations.
• Synthesize compute requirements, supply constraints, demand forecasts, and strategic priorities for long-range planning and investment decisions.
• Develop strategic perspectives across GPUs, CPUs, storage, networking, WAN, power, land, supply chain, and other infrastructure dependencies.
• Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, strategic investments, corporate development opportunities, and emerging infrastructure business models.
• Develop frameworks to assess compute availability, supply risk, investment tradeoffs, and long-term strategic positioning.
• Identify emerging constraints and opportunities across the compute ecosystem.

Build the Operating System for Industrial Compute

• Design and operate cross-functional planning mechanisms connecting compute supply, demand, infrastructure, partnerships, and executive decision-making.
• Establish strategic reviews, planning cadences, initiative tracking, and executive communications.
• Develop metrics, KPIs, and analytical frameworks for compute performance, organizational health, and emerging constraints.
• Create mechanisms for tracking initiatives, dependencies, decisions, risks, and commitments.
• Establish governance and decision-making frameworks that improve clarity, accountability, and execution speed.

Drive Cross-Functional Strategic Execution

• Lead high-priority initiatives spanning multiple organizations, functions, and infrastructure domains.
• Translate leadership priorities into structured problem statements, strategic options, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Align stakeholders with different objectives, incentives, and expertise.
• Resolve organizational bottlenecks, dependencies, and ownership gaps.
• Evaluate technical, financial, commercial, and operational tradeoffs for executive decisions.
• Own critical initiatives without clear organizational homes through completion.

Strategic Partnerships and Commercial Strategy

• Shape and execute complex strategic compute transactions with the Partnerships organization.
• Define strategic rationale, business requirements, and success criteria for compute partnerships and investments.
• Align Finance, Partnerships, Research, Infrastructure, and Scaling stakeholders around commercial decisions.
• Develop capabilities around cloud commercial strategy, pricing optimization, capacity commitments, and vendor economics.
• Analyze commercial structures, supplier relationships, and infrastructure partnerships to improve cost, flexibility, availability, and strategic leverage.
• Advise senior leadership on compute partnerships, commercial decisions, and infrastructure investments.

Executive and Organizational Leadership

• Operate as an extension of compute leadership on strategic and operational matters.
• Bring structure and clarity to ambiguous problems through decision-oriented analysis and recommendations.
• Build credibility with senior leaders and technical experts through sound judgment and analytical depth.
• Influence decisions across organizations without formal authority.
• Anticipate organizational and infrastructure risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Build durable operating mechanisms that create value beyond individual initiatives.

Requirements

• Significant experience in strategy, strategic operations, business operations, management consulting, corporate development, infrastructure strategy, or a similarly high-impact strategic function.
• Experience in technology or infrastructure-intensive organizations preferred.
• Experience as a senior individual contributor on complex, company-level initiatives with ambiguity, executive visibility, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Strong understanding of cloud, compute infrastructure, data centers, AI infrastructure, or large-scale technology ecosystems and their commercial dynamics.
• Ability to develop long-range strategies connecting market dynamics, technical constraints, financial considerations, and organizational capabilities.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong commercial judgment and experience evaluating partnerships, vendor relationships, pricing structures, capacity commitments, investments, or strategic transactions.
• Experience building operating mechanisms, planning frameworks, metrics systems, and executive-level business reviews.
• Ability to drive initiatives across organizational boundaries with competing priorities and ambiguous ownership.
• Strong executive communication skills.