Head of Strategic Finance

Head of Strategic Finance, AI Data Center Platform
Simple Mining · Remote (New York City preferred) · Full-time

About Simple Mining

Simple Mining turns power into Bitcoin and compute. We help investors, entrepreneurs, and institutions access energy-backed infrastructure without the complexity of building, operating, or maintaining it themselves.

For investors, we make Bitcoin mining simple, reliable, and transparent through turnkey miner sales, hosting, monitoring, repairs, and fleet management. For institutions, we develop energy infrastructure for Bitcoin mining and AI/HPC compute.

Headquartered in Cedar Falls, Iowa, we operate data centers across the state, run our own in-house repair center, and staff our sites around the clock. Simple Mining was ranked on the Inc. 5000 and named the fastest-growing company in Iowa.

ABOUT THE ROLE: Chief Financial Officer / Head of Strategic Finance

Simple Mining — Data Center Platform · Remote · Full-time

Why this role, why now

You've spent years putting together the deals that build infrastructure. You've built the models, run the lender processes and gotten capital committed, and then handed the finished deal to someone else to own. This is the chance to be the owner.

Simple Mining is building a platform of turnkey AI data centers, and we're looking for the person who lead the capital strategy behind it. We aren’t starting from zero. We already operate large-scale compute sites, with an established, revenue-generating business and a team that knows how to build in the physical world. Now we’re bringing what we know about power, land and operations to the data centers that power AI, the fastest-growing corner of infrastructure.

The opportunity is large, and so is the capital required. You will decide how we fund it.

What you'll own

• The capital strategy. Design the capital stack for each data center: construction and project debt, equity, joint ventures and LP structures.

• The raise, end to end. Build the model, the story and the materials; run the process with banks, private credit, infrastructure funds and strategic investors; negotiate terms; close.

• The relationships. Be the person lenders and investors call. Grow a network that makes every future raise faster and cheaper.

• Deal economics. Work with our BD team on lease structures with neocloud and AI customers so every project is financeable.

• The finance organization. Oversee accounting and reporting across Simple Mining and the data center business, working with our Head of Finance. Get us ready for institutional capital.

• Equity and valuation. Partner on our employee equity plan and the valuation story as the data center business moves into its own parent company.

Your first 90 days

You'll get to know the founders, the sites and the numbers. You'll meet the capital relationships already in motion, put a financing plan and timeline in front of leadership, and drive the first raise forward. By day 90, the board should see a clear path to funding our first data center.

Who you are

• You have personally led capital raises for capital-intensive infrastructure (data centers, power, utilities, energy or digital infrastructure) and closed them.

• You have a network of lenders, investors and LPs who will take your call.

• You've likely been a Director or Managing Director in investment banking, an infrastructure investor, or a finance leader at a developer. A prior CFO seat is a plus, not a requirement.

• You're fluent in project finance, debt structuring and investor materials, and you can explain a capital stack to anyone.

• Bachelor's in finance, economics or accounting required; MBA, CFA or CPA a plus.

Why you'll want to be here

• Ownership. Founding CFO of a data center platform. Your decisions will shape the company.

• A real foundation. An operating business with revenue, sites and a team that knows how to build in the physical world.

• Speed. A small, numbers-driven leadership team. No committees. Ideas get decided in days, not quarters.

• Upside. A meaningful equity stake, designed with an independent compensation firm, alongside competitive  incentives.

• The moment. AI demand for compute is outrunning the supply of powered, ready-to-lease space. You'd be building the infrastructure behind it.

COMPENSATION

Competitive base salary, annual bonus and equity included. Full benefits package provided. 

BENEFITS 

Full-time employees are eligible for our benefits package, including:

• Medical insurance through UnitedHealthcare, with multiple plan options including an HSA-eligible high-deductible plan

• Dental insurance through Delta Dental (PPO) and vision insurance through VSP

• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution, with traditional and Roth options

• Bitcoin bonus: 1% of your annual gross earnings paid in Bitcoin each year

• Company-paid basic life and AD&D insurance, long-term disability, and an Employee Assistance Program

• HSA, FSA, and dependent care FSA options

• Paid time off for vacation, personal time, and appointments