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Strategic Finance

Join Baseten's strategic finance team to shape the company's trajectory in the fast-paced AI industry.

Location
San Francisco
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
Not specified
Type
full time

Posted by employer 4 days ago

First seen on Joblaze 3 days ago

Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago

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Skills & Technologies

What you'll build

  • Build and maintain financial models
  • Partner with leaders across departments
  • Analyze usage-based business metrics
  • Shape pricing and packaging
  • Prepare board materials and investor updates

Must have

  • Experience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, PE/VC investing, and/or consulting
  • Excellent financial modeling and analytical skills
  • Ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Excellent written and verbal communication

Nice to have

  • 4+ years of experience
  • Experience at an AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, or usage-based software company
  • Familiarity with GPU and compute economics
  • Experience in sales finance, sales compensation, pricing, or deal desk
  • Prior quantitative or technical experience

AI in the day-to-day

Use AI and automation extensively to keep the team fast and lean.

Requirements

Experience
4+ years

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, seniority, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.

Benefits

401k Match Unlimited PTO Equity/Stock Options Health Insurance Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

In this role, the individual will engage in financial modeling, business partnerships, and strategic project analysis to inform key business decisions at Baseten. Proficiency in financial analysis, modeling, and familiarity with AI or technology sectors are essential, alongside strong communication skills to convey complex information to various stakeholders. This position is suitable for candidates with a background in strategic finance or related fields, particularly those who thrive in fast-paced environments. The team is focused on building a high-performing finance function that adapts quickly to the company's growth.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed 3 days ago — first seen on Joblaze November 12, 2026. Last confirmed on baseten's careers page November 14, 2026.
  • AI/ML appears in 2.8% of 12207 comparable other roles in United States.

Quick facts

How much experience is required?
At least 4 years of relevant experience for this Strategic Finance role.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Strategic Finance role at baseten.

From the original posting

THE ROLE

We're building a high-performing strategic finance team and looking for exceptional people at every level, from strong individual contributors to senior finance leaders ready to build and lead teams. Our revenue scales with customer usage, our costs scale with GPU capacity we commit to ahead of demand, and both move faster than any annual plan. That makes growth, portfolio construction, pricing, margin, and compute capacity decisions business model decisions. You'll sit at the center of them, working directly with Finance leadership and the executives who run the business to shape the company's trajectory.

This posting is intentionally broad within strategic finance. We'll match your scope and title to your experience and interest. We are looking for both specialists and generalists. The common thread is ownership: you'll take on hard, ambiguous problems, build what doesn't exist yet, and get more responsibility as fast as you can handle it. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification listed below.

THE RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Financial Modeling: Build and maintain models across revenue, gross margin, compute costs, headcount, and strategic bets that leadership uses to make decisions.

  • Business Partnership: Partner with leaders across GTM, Product, Infrastructure, and Operations to set targets, evaluate investments, and work through operational tradeoffs.

  • Unit Economics: Analyze the metrics that define a usage-based business, including ARR, consumption trends, gross margin, GPU utilization, retention, and GTM efficiency.

  • Pricing and Deals: Shape pricing, packaging, and the structure of strategic customer and supplier deals.

  • Board and Investors: Help prepare board materials, investor updates, and fundraising analyses.

  • Systems and Scale: Build the reporting, dashboards, and processes that let finance scale as fast as our revenue. Use AI and automation extensively to keep the team fast and lean.

  • Strategic Projects: Turn ambiguous business questions into clear analysis and recommendations, from market sizing to scenario planning to new business lines.

  • Leadership: For senior hires, own a major area of finance end to end, build and develop a team, and act as a thought partner to Finance leadership and the executive team.

THE REQUIREMENTS

  • Experience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, PE/VC investing, and/or consulting. Prior experience in high-growth technology is strongly preferred

  • Excellent financial modeling and analytical skills

  • Ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations for executives

  • Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment

  • Strong attention to detail with a bias toward ownership and execution

  • Excellent written and verbal communication, including explaining financial tradeoffs to product and engineering audiences and influencing senior stakeholders

  • Sound judgment when data is incomplete, and comfort making a call and revisiting it as you learn more

  • High intellectual curiosity and interest in AI / infrastructure / developer tooling

  • Advanced Excel / Google Sheets skills; familiarity with SQL or BI tools is a plus

STRONG CANDIDATES MAY ALSO HAVE

  • 4+ years of experience. Level and title will match your experience

  • Experience at an AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, or usage-based software company

  • Familiarity with GPU and compute economics, or data center and cloud contracts

  • Experience in sales finance, sales compensation, pricing, or deal desk

  • Experience building a finance function from the ground up at a hypergrowth company

  • Prior quantitative or technical experience

BENEFITS

  • Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity

  • Paid parental leave

  • Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot

  • (U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k)

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