Join Baseten's strategic finance team to shape the company's trajectory in the fast-paced AI industry.
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AI in the day-to-day
Use AI and automation extensively to keep the team fast and lean.
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Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, seniority, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
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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.
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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.
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.
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
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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