Manager - Data Center Infrastructure Expense Management

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

What You’ll Do
As the Manager of DC Infrastructure Expense Management, you will own expense governance across Lambda’s Data Center and Network portfolios. This role sits at the intersection of business operations, supplier management, and strategic planning—ensuring our infrastructure investments are well-managed, transparent, and aligned with growth priorities. You’ll partner closely with DC and Network Account Managers, Finance, and leadership to track portfolio health, forecast spend, and identify opportunities for efficiency and reinvestment.

You will:

• Lead end-to-end expense management for Lambda’s Data Center and Network portfolios, ensuring visibility into all recurring and variable costs.

• Partner with DC and Network Account Managers to align expense forecasts with demand plans and supplier delivery.

• Drive portfolio reporting across forecast vs. actuals, spend trends, and key cost drivers.

• Build dashboards and reporting frameworks to provide executives with clear, actionable insights into portfolio performance.

• Support supplier negotiations and renewals with cost analysis, benchmarking, and scenario modeling.

• Identify and implement process improvements to streamline expense tracking, forecasting, and reporting workflows.

• Help shape automation and tooling solutions to support scalable, data-driven portfolio governance.

• Lead and develop a small team, fostering a culture of accountability, curiosity, and continuous improvement.

About You

• Experienced in managing large-scale infrastructure expense portfolios, ideally across data center, network, or cloud environments.

• Operationally strong and analytically sharp, able to turn data into clear insights that inform business decisions.

• Detail-oriented, structured, and proactive, with a track record of driving clarity in dynamic, high-growth settings.

• Collaborative, humble, and driven, comfortable managing up, working cross-functionally, and building strong partnerships.

• A team builder who leads with empathy, curiosity, and commitment to growth and development.

• Thrives in startup-like environments where structure is being built and impact is tangible.

Nice to Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Operations, or a related field.

• Proven experience managing expense tracking, supplier costs, and portfolio reporting in a technology or infrastructure setting.

• Experience with tooling and dashboards for operational and expense management.

Salary Range Information

The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

About Lambda

• Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast

• Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove

• We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG

• Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers

• We offer generous cash & equity compensation

• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents

• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles

• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)

• Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use

A Final Note:

You do not need to match all of the listed expectations to apply for this position. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.