Strategic Finance
Baseten is an AI inference platform for deploying, optimizing, and scaling custom, open-source, and fine-tuned models in production.
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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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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and maintain financial models across revenue, gross margin, compute costs and headcount, partner with GTM, Product, Infrastructure and Operations leaders, and analyze unit economics of a usage-based business. You will shape pricing and strategic deals, prepare board and investor materials, build reporting and automation, and tackle ambiguous strategic projects. Senior hires also own a major finance area and build a team.
Requirements
- Experience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, PE/VC or consulting
- Excellent financial modeling and analytical skills
- Ability to synthesize complex information for executives
- Comfortable in fast-moving, ambiguous environment
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Sound judgment with incomplete data
- Interest in AI / infrastructure / developer tooling
- Advanced Excel / Google Sheets skills
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain financial models across revenue, gross margin, compute costs, headcount and strategic bets
- Partner with GTM, Product, Infrastructure and Operations leaders to set targets and evaluate investments
- Analyze unit economics including ARR, consumption, gross margin, GPU utilization and retention
- Shape pricing, packaging and strategic customer and supplier deals
- Help prepare board materials, investor updates and fundraising analyses
- Build reporting, dashboards and processes, using AI and automation
- Turn ambiguous questions into analysis and recommendations
- For senior hires, own a major finance area and build a team
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental and vision insurance coverage (U.S. only)
- Flexible PTO policy including company-wide Winter Break
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
- 401(k) (U.S. only)
- Exposure to a variety of ML startups
