Director Structured Finance

Company Overview

The company is an AI infrastructure business building a next-generation inference platform designed to support the rapidly growing demands of AI. Its platform orchestrates workloads across a diverse ecosystem of GPUs, CPUs, and specialized hardware, enabling customers to run AI models with greater efficiency, performance, and flexibility.

The company has scaled rapidly, driven by significant customer demand, and is entering its next phase of growth as it expands its compute and data center footprint to support increasing demand for AI inference.

About the Role

As one of two Directors of Capital Markets and Strategic Finance, you will work directly with the Head of Finance and executive leadership to finance a multi-billion-dollar compute and data center deployment program. The two Directors will operate as senior individual contributors and transaction leads, with complementary coverage across financing structures, capital providers, deployments, and strategic transactions.

Compute is the company’s product and its largest balance-sheet commitment. Every deployment requires decisions across data center capacity, hardware financing, SPV and asset-backed structures, lease arrangements, customer contracts, and equity capital. Financing is therefore a core strategic function—not a back-office one.

You will lead financing processes end to end, own senior relationships with lenders and capital providers, and build the transaction and capital-structure models that determine how new capacity is financed. You will partner across Infrastructure, Data Center Operations, Finance, Legal, GTM, and Product to evaluate risk, negotiate terms, and close transactions against aggressive deployment timelines.

This is a hands-on builder and deal-lead role for someone with deep experience in structured finance, project or infrastructure finance, leveraged finance, private credit, or debt capital markets who wants to move to the principal side of the table. It is not an FP&A role; that function is staffed separately.

What Success Looks Like

In the first 6–18 months, you will:

• Develop and execute the company’s debt capital markets strategy across GPU- and asset-backed facilities, equipment and vendor financing, SPVs, project-level structures, revolving facilities, and lease financing.
• Lead financing processes from lender outreach and diligence through structuring, negotiation, documentation, and close.
• Build and manage relationships with lenders, private credit and infrastructure funds, equipment lessors, financing advisors, and other institutional capital providers.
• Own the capital structure and deployment models used to evaluate capacity scenarios, unit economics, covenant headroom, cost of capital, liquidity, and returns.
• Underwrite data center and compute commitments in partnership with Infrastructure and Data Center Operations.
• Evaluate customer contracts, leases, and strategic arrangements, including prepayment, take-or-pay, warrant, and risk-allocation structures.
• Support equity and strategic capital transactions where they intersect with the overall capital structure, lender requirements, or deployment program.
• Lead lender and investor reporting, including covenant compliance, board materials, and ongoing communications.
• Evaluate corporate development opportunities, including strategic partnerships, data center leases, and asset acquisitions.
• Coordinate closely with the separately staffed FP&A team while remaining accountable for financing analysis, transaction execution, capital-provider materials, and facility compliance.

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

• 7–12 years of experience in structured finance, project or infrastructure finance, leveraged finance, private credit, debt capital markets, or an in-house capital-markets role.
• A track record of structuring and executing complex debt or asset-backed financing transactions.
• Experience leading commercial negotiations of term sheets, credit agreements, and other financing documentation in partnership with legal counsel.
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills, including the ability to evaluate capital structures, contractual economics, risk allocation, and investment returns.
• Executive presence and experience representing a company with lenders, investors, financing advisors, and other institutional counterparties.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to build and defend board, lender, and investor materials.
• The ability to move between detailed analysis and executive-level decisions while managing multiple workstreams under tight timelines.
• Comfort operating with limited structure and building new processes in a fast-moving environment.

Strong Candidates May Also Have

• Direct experience financing data centers, GPU fleets, compute infrastructure, or other capital-intensive assets.
• Experience with equipment facilities, project finance, structured credit, securitization, sale-leasebacks, or financing secured by contracted revenue.
• Experience at a data center operator, cloud infrastructure provider, hyperscaler, AI infrastructure company, or energy and power business.
• Experience executing growth-equity fundraises or other strategic capital transactions.
• Familiarity with data center leases, colocation and build-to-suit structures, power contracting, or large-scale hardware procurement.
• Experience with usage-based revenue models, long-term compute contracts, prepayments, or take-or-pay arrangements.
• Prior in-house experience in strategic finance, treasury, investor relations, FP&A, or corporate development.
• An MBA or equivalent advanced degree.

Why join now?

The company is expanding from its core technology into a production neocloud spanning new hardware, customers, and data centers. The company is building the capital-markets capability required to finance a multi-billion-dollar deployment program, giving these first two hires unusual ownership over strategy, structure, and execution.

● Solve hard problems.

● Own meaningful work.

● Build for production.

● Help define what’s next.

DeWinter Group and Maris Consulting is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We post pay scales which are based on our client pay ranges. DeWinter, Maris, and our clients have the right to modify the requirements of the role which can impact the pay ranges posted.