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Baseten is building its finance function around a usage-based business where revenue tracks customer inference volume and costs track GPU capacity committed ahead of demand, so growth, pricing, margin, and compute purchasing are treated as core business-model decisions rather than annual planning exercises.
ABOUT BASETEN
Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F, led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products.
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
(U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
Paid parental leave
Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
(U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k)
Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.
Apply now to embark on a rewarding journey in shaping the future of AI! If you are a motivated individual with a passion for machine learning and a desire to be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you.
At Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable).
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