Strategic Finance

The role

You will build and maintain financial models and partner with leaders across GTM, Product, Infrastructure, and Operations. You will analyze unit economics, shape pricing and deals, and prepare materials for the board and investors.

What you will do

• Build and maintain models across revenue, gross margin, compute costs, headcount, and strategic bets
• Partner with leaders across GTM, Product, Infrastructure, and Operations
• Analyze metrics including ARR, consumption trends, gross margin, GPU utilization, retention, and GTM 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
• Turn ambiguous business questions into clear analysis and recommendations
• For senior hires, own a major area of finance end to end, build and develop a team, and act as a thought partner

Required qualifications

• Experience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, PE/VC investing, and/or consulting
• 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
• Sound judgment when data is incomplete
• High intellectual curiosity and interest in AI / infrastructure / developer tooling
• Advanced Excel / Google Sheets skills

Nice to have

• Prior experience in high-growth technology
• Familiarity with SQL or BI tools
• 4+ years of 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
• 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 the world's most dynamic AI companies. They recently raised a $1.5B Series F led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital.