Global Equity Programs Lead

Baseten is an AI inference platform for deploying, optimizing, and scaling custom, open-source, and fine-tuned models in production.

Series F+Recently funded
San Francisco, United States
About Baseten

Baseten provides model runtimes, inference infrastructure, developer workflows, and deployment options including managed cloud, self-hosted, and hybrid environments.

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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will own global equity operations from operating-model design through administration, controls, and reporting. You will manage grants, vesting, exercises, releases, terminations, reconciliations, workflows, equity-platform configuration, integrations, and employee resources. You will coordinate equity requirements across legal, tax, payroll, compensation, accounting, and corporate events while improving accuracy, automation, audit readiness, and reporting.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of progressive equity administration or equity operations experience
  • Ownership of complex equity operations and underlying data and transactions
  • Knowledge of stock options, RSUs, vesting, settlement events, tax withholding, employee mobility, and equity-plan operations
  • Experience administering an equity platform and connected HRIS, payroll, accounting, and reporting systems
  • Experience designing reconciliations, approval workflows, documentation, and audit support
  • Ability to diagnose data issues, resolve exceptions, and establish repeatable processes
  • Ability to drive cross-functional decisions across Legal, People, Tax, Payroll, Finance, and external advisors
  • Clear written and verbal communication
  • Discretion with compensation, ownership, transaction, and employee data
  • Ability to manage time-sensitive workstreams accurately

Responsibilities

  • Build the operating model for equity administration across countries and entities
  • Run the equity calendar for grants, vesting, exercises, releases, terminations, and participant transactions
  • Maintain equity records and reconciliations across the equity platform, HRIS, payroll, cap table, and accounting records
  • Translate compensation and plan decisions into workflows, configurations, approvals, and employee communications
  • Coordinate equity operations for international hiring, employee mobility, acquisitions, liquidity programs, and corporate events
  • Execute equity refreshes, including data preparation, approvals, documentation, system uploads, and communications
  • Evaluate award structures and identify operational, tax, compliance, accounting, and employee-experience risks
  • Design controls supporting financial reporting, audits, and reconciliations
  • Develop reporting on dilution, grant activity, vesting, exercises, retention trends, and future obligations
  • Own the equity platform, data flows, integrations, vendor performance, and system improvements
  • Create employee equity resources
  • Automate recurring manual work while maintaining review, security, and control

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity
  • 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for U.S. employees and dependents
  • Flexible PTO and company-wide Winter Break
  • Paid parental leave
  • Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
  • Company-facilitated 401(k) for U.S. employees