Product Finance

The role

You will be the finance owner for Baseten's distribution and labs partnerships. You will evaluate commercials, design deal structures, and ensure rates fit company economics and product strategy.

What you will do

• Build deal models for distribution and labs partnerships
• Evaluate partner proposals and recommend structures that protect margin
• Own commercial frameworks for partnerships
• Quantify strategic value and direct economics of partnerships
• Tie partner commitments and forecasts to capacity and GPU supply plan
• Track partnership performance after signing
• Own the partnerships forecast and its contribution to the annual plan
• Partner with Product and Partnerships leadership on partner prioritization

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in strategic finance at a high-growth company, corporate development, PE/VC investing, and/or investment banking
• Deep understanding of product unit economics
• Excellent financial modeling skills, including building deal models from raw usage and cost data
• Experience structuring commercial agreements and anticipating downstream impacts
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations for executives
• Comfortable building from scratch and making decisions with incomplete data
• Strong attention to detail with a bias toward ownership and execution
• Advanced Excel / Google Sheets skills

Nice to have

• Familiarity with SQL or BI tools
• Experience with GPU compute economics or cloud infrastructure
• Familiarity with cloud marketplaces, AI gateways, or the commercial landscape for AI model labs
• Experience at a usage-based company

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents (U.S. only)
• Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
• Company-facilitated 401(k) (U.S. only)
• Exposure to a variety of ML startups

About the company

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for AI companies by uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and developer tooling. The company recently raised a $1.5B Series F.