Senior Enterprise Risk Manager

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, builds Gigawatt-scale AI Factories for Training and Inference. Lambda’s mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give every person access to artificial intelligence. One person, one GPU.

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

*Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco/San Jose office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.

Lambda is a rapidly scaling AI cloud infrastructure company, purpose-built to support the most demanding AI workloads. As we expand our platform to serve the world’s leading AI labs and enterprises, we are making multi-billion-dollar investments in data center capacity and compute clusters and securing long-term customer contracts that underpin the next generation of AI innovation.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Enterprise Risk Manager to lead the design, execution, and oversight of our enterprise-wide risk management framework. You will partner with executives and business leaders across the organization to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate strategic, financial, operational, and compliance risks. The ideal candidate is a proven risk leader with deep experience in risk oversight within high-growth, capital-intensive industries, has strong analytical skills, executive presence, and the credibility to advise executives and the Board on risk strategy.

What You’ll Do

• Enterprise Risk Framework

  • Design and implement Lambda’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework, policies and governance aligned with our rapid AI infrastructure scaling.

  • Drive risk culture and awareness across all business units.

• Risk Identification & Assessment

  • Assess risks related to large-scale data center procurement, long-term customer contracts, and multi-billion-dollar financing structures.

  • Partner with Finance on capital markets risk (debt, liquidity, interest rates, covenants) and with Operations on construction, vendor, and supply chain risks.

  • Monitor external risks such as regulatory shifts, geopolitical uncertainty, and evolving AI industry dynamics.

  • Oversee enterprise-wide risk assessments, including emerging risks and strategic threats.

  • Evaluate business processes, controls, and external environment to identify potential vulnerabilities.

• Monitoring & Reporting

  • Define risk appetite and tolerance levels, ensuring alignment with growth objectives and stakeholder expectations (including Lambda’s board).

  • Develop metrics and risk appetite / tolerance statements.

  • Build a risk dashboard for executives and the Board, highlighting exposures, mitigation strategies, and emerging threats.

  • Provide regular reporting to executive leadership, the Audit & Risk Committee, and the Board on key risks, trends, and mitigation strategies.

• Strategic Partnership

  • Act as a trusted advisor to our executives, business and functional leaders, ensuring risks are considered in strategic initiatives, new products, major contracts, financings and large-scale projects.

• Scenario Planning & Stress Testing

  • Lead scenario analyses (e.g., supply chain disruptions, interest rate spikes, power shortages) to stress-test the business model.

  • Ensure business continuity planning is robust and scalable.

• Governance & Controls

  • Lead scenario planning, stress testing, and contingency planning exercises.

  • Ensure compliance with regulatory expectations related to risk governance.

• Team Leadership

  • Attract, mentor and grow risk professionals while building a culture of accountability and risk awareness across Lambda.

You

• 10+ years of risk management experience, ideally in cloud infrastructure, financial services, or large-scale technology/energy industries.

• Deep knowledge of ERM frameworks (e.g., COSO, ISO 31000) and risk management best practices.

• Ability to present key initiatives to executive leadership and Board and drive strategic decisions regarding risk management.

• Strong understanding of financial, operational, and technology risks, including cybersecurity, third-party/vendor, and regulatory risks.

• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Advanced degree (MBA, Finance, Risk) and/or relevant certifications (