What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Director, Capital Markets & Corporate Development position at togetherai?
About the Role
As Senior Director of Capital Markets and Corporate Development at Together, you will be a senior member of the Strategic Finance team, working directly with the SVP of Finance and executive leadership to lead the company's structured finance and corporate development initiatives. You will play a critical role in supporting Together's infrastructure growth through sophisticated financing structures, including SPV formations, asset-backed facilities, and strategic partnerships with lenders. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in debt capital markets and structured finance, including experience with driving legal negotiation of financing term sheets and credit agreements. You will be responsible for leading and executing financing processes, managing lender relationships and driving other corporate development initiatives that enable Together's infrastructure scaling strategy.
Requirements
- 10 to 15 years of experience in one or more of the following: Structured Finance, Leveraged Finance, or Debt Capital Markets experience at an investment bank and/or private investment firm; capital markets and/or corporate development experience at a data center business
- Deep familiarity with structured finance and debt capital markets, with proven track record of executing complex financing transactions from a legal, operational and technical standpoint
- Executive presence and maturity to build/manage relationships with external financing counterparties and communicate the company story to lenders, financing advisors and other institutional capital providers
- Experience driving legal negotiation of financing documentation (e.g., credit agreements) in conjunction with legal counsel, with a commercial and problem solving oriented approach
- Strong analytical, quantitative and financial modeling skills, with a deep understanding of financial concepts and key drivers impacting decision-making
- Strong work ethic and self-directed with ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize and work under tight timelines with close attention to detail
Responsibilities
- Lead and execute Together's debt capital markets and corporate development strategy to support the company's infrastructure growth
- Build, manage and expand relationships with lenders, financing advisors and other institutional capital providers, serving as the primary relationship owner for debt capital markets and corporate development partnerships
- Drive financing processes end-to-end including lender/advisor outreach, preparation of company marketing and due diligence materials that effectively communicate Together’s story, commercial/legal negotiation and transaction structuring/execution
- Negotiate credit agreements, term sheets, and other financing documentation to achieve optimal terms, working closely with legal counsel and senior leadership
- Partner closely with Business Operations, Legal, GTM, Engineering and Product teams to drive execution of infrastructure growth in relation to financing structures
- Drive other corporate development initiatives that support Together's infrastructure strategy, including data center leases, strategic partnerships, asset acquisitions, and other value creation opportunities
- Be ready to roll up your sleeves and assist with other Strategic Finance initiatives and priorities to drive business impact and help the company grow
- Build expertise to deeply understand the company’s product offerings, product portfolio and associated nuances
About Together AI
Together AI is an AI infrastructure company building the leading AI cloud platform for developers to build and run their AI applications. We take a full platform approach across software and infrastructure and our end-to-end product suite delivers the workflow tools for developers to continuously improve their models, agents and applications. Our AI systems research allows us to bring continuous innovation to our platform and deliver cutting edge performance to our customers. We have contributed to leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI, and our team has been behind technological advancement such as FlashAttention, Hyena, FlexGen, and RedPajama. We invite you to join us in our journey in building the next generation AI infrastructure.
Together AI's investors include leading venture and growth investors such as General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, Salesforce Ventures, NVIDIA, Emergence Capital and Lux Capital. Together is one of the fastest growing AI startups and has been named to the Forbes AI 50 list of Top Artificial Intelligence Startups.
Compensation
We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance and other competitive benefits. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $280k - $350k equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
Equal Opportunity
Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.
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