About the role
At a baseline labor cost of $15.00 per rider-hour, producing one megawatt-hour requires approximately $187,500 of direct labor. This figure excludes nutrition, real estate, bicycles, cooling, healthcare, showers and towels.
The Manager of Biological Unit Economics will maintain the financial model connecting rider-level inputs to enterprise compute pricing.
Responsibilities
- Own unit-economic models across wages, nutrition, equipment depreciation, facility occupancy, cooling and regional perspiration assumptions.
- Reconcile an electricity selling price measured in cents with direct labor measured in hundreds of thousands of dollars per megawatt-hour.
- Evaluate pricing, capacity utilization and workload mix across regional facilities.
- Partner with operations to distinguish temporary inefficiency from the underlying business model.
- Identify a path to positive gross margin that does not require redefining either “positive” or “gross margin.”
Minimum qualifications
- Seven or more years of strategic finance, infrastructure finance, energy economics or related experience.
- Advanced financial-modeling ability.
- Strong understanding of fixed costs, variable costs, contribution margin and scenarios in which all three are unfavorable.
- Ability to present financial findings to leadership with the composure expected of someone who has checked the formulas repeatedly.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with power markets, data-center economics, labor-intensive operations or project finance.
- Previous responsibility for an asset whose financial performance became less intuitive when fully modeled.
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage for eligible employees
- Retirement plan
- Paid time off subject to regional capacity coverage
- Nightly biological maintenance window
- On-site showers and towel service
- Electrolytes during facility shifts
- Nutritionally diverse workplace inputs
- Role-specific personal protective equipment
- Bicycle fitting for employees assigned to production-adjacent work
- No meetings while actively producing above 160 BPM