Director of Capital Markets

About TensorWave

Our mission is simple: deliver seamless, secure, reliable, and resilient AI compute at scale. We've built a versatile cloud platform that eliminates infrastructure barriers, empowering builders to focus on innovation instead of fighting their stack. Because breakthrough AI should move at the speed of ideas, not infrastructure.

About the Role

We are seeking a Director of Capital Markets, reporting to the EVP of Finance, responsible for owning the company's capital planning strategy, long-range financial modeling, and capital markets and private credit relationships. This is a high-impact, highly visible role that sits at the intersection of capital markets, infrastructure finance, and executive strategy, and is central to TensorWave's ability to grow at the pace the AI infrastructure market demands.

The Director of Capital Markets will serve as the internal architect of our capital planning function, building the frameworks, models, and lender relationships that enable large-scale infrastructure deployment. This role requires deep fluency in private credit markets, including direct lending, unitranche facilities, and structured credit, as well as the ability to serve as TensorWave’s primary interface with private credit funds, institutional lenders, and capital partners. This role will collaborate closely with FP&A and the Executive team.

This position is an excellent fit for a professional with deep experience in private credit, direct lending, or infrastructure finance, whether from a fund/platform seat (e.g., Ares, Blue Owl, Apollo Credit, Owl Rock, Golub) or from investment banking coverage of those markets. The ideal candidate is ready to step into a senior corporate finance leadership role in a fast-growing, capital-intensive environment.

What You’ll Do

Capital Planning & Strategy

• Own and lead the company's multi-year capital plan, integrating infrastructure buildout timelines, revenue backlog, and financing capacity into a cohesive, executive-ready framework

• Develop and maintain integrated financial models to support debt sizing, covenant compliance, and capital deployment decisions across corporate entities and SPVs

• Evaluate optimal capital structure across private credit facilities (direct loans, unitranche, delayed-draw term loans), revolving credit facilities, asset-backed structures, and equity, and recommend instrument mix and timing to senior leadership

• Partner with Operations, Infrastructure, and Business Development to translate growth initiatives into near- and long-term capital requirements

• Support data center lease structuring and real estate finance workstreams, including lease economics, MEP financing, phased delivery schedules, and tenant improvement coordination

• Monitor credit markets, interest rate environments, and lender appetite to advise on refinancing opportunities and new issuance timing

• Structure and manage strategic partner financing arrangements, including vendor credit support, guarantees, and co-investment structures that extend beyond traditional lender relationships

• Translate contracted revenue streams (including long-term services agreements and customer offtake commitments) into bankable collateral packages and lender-ready underwriting narratives

Private Credit & Lender Relationship Management

• Serve as the primary relationship owner for private credit funds, direct lending platforms, institutional lenders, and investment banks

• Own and deepen relationships across the private credit ecosystem, including fund GPs, credit committee contacts, and portfolio monitoring teams, to ensure TensorWave has preferred access to capital on competitive terms

• Prepare and present materials for lender updates, covenant reporting, and financing roadshows

• Lead due diligence processes and coordinate across Legal, Accounting, and Operations to execute financing transactions end-to-end

• Navigate credit agreement negotiation, intercreditor arrangements, and consent/waiver processes with existing and prospective lenders

• Proactively cultivate new lending relationships to expand financing optionality and drive down cost of capital over time

Treasury Strategy & Risk Management

• Own the corporate treasury policy framework, including liquidity thresholds, cash reserve targets, investment guidelines, and counterparty limits, establishing the strategic layer that governs how TensorWave deploys and protects its capital

• Build and maintain a rolling 13-week and long-range cash flow forecast in partnership with Treasury Operations, providing leadership with clear visibility into funding gaps, surplus deployment windows, and facility draw-down timing

• Develop and oversee TensorWave's short-term investment strategy for excess cash, evaluating permitted instruments in line with board-approved investment policy

• Own TensorWave's interest rate hedging strategy, including managing SOFR exposure across floating-rate debt facilities through interest rate swaps, caps, and collar structures to protect against rate volatility as the debt program scales

• Develop and manage a power price hedging program to mitigate electricity cost exposure across TensorWave's datacenter portfolio, including evaluation of fixed-price PPAs and financial hedges against spot and forward power markets

Financial Reporting & Executive Support

• Produce executive-level reporting on capital deployment, debt maturity profiles, liquidity runway, and interest expense forecasting

• Support the EVP of Finance in board and investor materials related to capital structure, liquidity, and long-range financial strategy

• Partner with FP&A on forecasting, scenario analysis, and SPV-level capital planning

Function Building

• Build out the capital planning function, including scalable processes, modeling infrastructure, and, over time, team members

• Establish workflows for lender reporting, covenant tracking, and financing pipeline management

• Drive cross-functional alignment with Legal, Procurement, and Accounting on financing timelines and capital outflows

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related quantitative field

• 8-12 years of experience, with significant time spent in or covering private credit markets, whether at a direct lending fund/platform, in leveraged finance or infrastructure finance banking, or in a corporate finance role managing private credit relationships

• Deep familiarity with private credit deal structures, including direct loans, unitranche facilities, delayed-draw term loans, and co-lending arrangements

• Experience negotiating credit agreements, intercreditor terms, financial covenants, and lender consent/waiver processes

• Demonstrated experience executing complex debt financings, including term loans, DDTLs,, revolving credit facilities, and private placements

• Proven expertise in capital structures, debt mechanics, covenants, and long-range liquidity planning

• Experience with complex multi-entity structures, SPVs, or project-finance-style modeling

• Comfort structuring non-traditional financing arrangements involving strategic partners, vendors, or OEMs

• Ability to translate contracted but non-standard revenue streams into bankable collateral structures that institutional lenders can underwrite

• Advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, specifically for building integrated capital and debt models from scratch

• Strong track record of managing and cultivating relationships with private credit funds, direct lending platforms, and institutional lenders

• Exceptional attention to detail, strong problem-solving capabilities, and a demonstrated ability to run multiple concurrent deal tracks across different sites, capital partners, and structures in a high-growth environment with limited established processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience advising or working within capital-intensive infrastructure, data center, energy, or technology companies

• Prior seat at a private credit fund, BDC, or direct lending platform (e.g., Ares, Blue Owl, Apollo Credit, Owl Rock, Golub, HPS)

• Prior in-house corporate finance experience post-banking (FP&A, treasury, capital markets or strategic finance)

• Familiarity with asset-backed lending, equipment financing, or structured credit

• Exposure to data center lease economics, real estate project finance, or infrastructure lease structuring (NNN, modified gross, build-to-suit)

• Familiarity with state and local tax incentive packages, abatement structures, and pass-through entity tax planning across multi-state operations

• Existing relationships with credit funds and institutional lenders active in infrastructure and technology financing

• MBA or equivalent advanced degree

What We Offer

• Mission-driven company

• Competitive salary

• Stock options

• 100% paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance

• Flexible PTO

• Paid Holidays

• 401(k)

• Parental Leave

• Flexible Spending Account

• Short Term Disability Insurance

• Life and Voluntary Supplemental Insurance

• Mental Health Benefits through Spring Health

Equal Employment Opportunity

TensorWave is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected status under applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodations

TensorWave provides reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable laws. If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please contact [email protected].

Employment Eligibility

All offers of employment are contingent upon verification of identity and authorization to work in the United States, as required by law.

Background Checks

Where permitted by law, employment may be contingent upon the successful completion of a job-related background check.

Data Privacy Notice

By submitting an application, you acknowledge that TensorWave may collect, use, and retain your personal information for recruiting and employment-related purposes in accordance with applicable data privacy laws.