Strategic Finance
About The Position
Baseten is hiring for its strategic finance team, with opportunities ranging from individual contributor roles to senior finance leadership positions. The role is matched to the candidate’s experience and interests and centers on helping shape business decisions in a fast-growing AI infrastructure company. Because revenue scales with customer usage and costs scale with GPU capacity committed ahead of demand, the team informs decisions about growth, portfolio construction, pricing, margins, and compute capacity. The successful candidate will work directly with Finance leadership and business executives, take ownership of complex and ambiguous problems, build new capabilities, and assume increasing responsibility. Depending on seniority, the role may also involve owning a major finance area, building and developing a team, and advising Finance leadership and the executive team. Baseten describes itself as an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable law.
Requirements
- Experience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity or venture capital investing, and/or consulting.
- Excellent financial modeling and analytical skills.
- Ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations for executives.
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
- Strong attention to detail and a bias toward ownership and execution.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including explaining financial tradeoffs to product and engineering audiences and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Sound judgment when data is incomplete, and comfort making decisions and revisiting them as new information becomes available.
- Intellectual curiosity and interest in AI, infrastructure, or developer tooling.
- Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience in high-growth technology is strongly preferred.
- Four or more years of experience; level and title will be matched to experience.
- Experience at an AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, or usage-based software company.
- Familiarity with GPU and compute economics, data center contracts, or 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.
- Familiarity with SQL or BI tools.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain financial models covering revenue, gross margin, compute costs, headcount, and strategic investments for leadership decision-making.
- Partner with leaders across go-to-market, Product, Infrastructure, and Operations to set targets, evaluate investments, and assess operational tradeoffs.
- Analyze usage-based business metrics, including ARR, consumption trends, gross margin, GPU utilization, retention, and go-to-market efficiency.
- Shape pricing, packaging, and the structure of strategic customer and supplier deals.
- Help prepare board materials, investor updates, and fundraising analyses.
- Build reporting, dashboards, and processes to support finance as the company grows; use AI and automation to keep the team fast and lean.
- Translate ambiguous business questions into clear analysis and recommendations, including market sizing, scenario planning, and evaluation of new business lines.
- 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.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
- For U.S. employees and dependents: 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Flexible PTO policy, including a company-wide Winter Break when offices are closed from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day.
- Paid parental leave.
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot.
- For U.S. employees: company-facilitated 401(k).
- Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering learning and networking opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
