Strategic Finance (AI)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco or New York, United States

Salary: $200K–$280K annually, plus equity

Company

Baseten provides AI inference infrastructure and developer tooling for companies bringing machine learning models into production.

What you will do

• Build and maintain models covering revenue, gross margin, compute costs, headcount, and strategic investments.
• Partner with GTM, Product, Infrastructure, and Operations leaders on targets, investments, and operational tradeoffs.
• Analyze usage-based business metrics including ARR, consumption, GPU utilization, retention, gross margin, and GTM efficiency.
• Shape pricing, packaging, and strategic customer and supplier deals.
• Prepare board materials, investor updates, fundraising analyses, dashboards, and scalable finance processes.
• Turn ambiguous questions into analysis and recommendations; senior hires may own a finance area and build a team.

Requirements

• Experience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, PE/VC investing, and/or consulting; high-growth technology experience is strongly preferred.
• Excellent financial modeling, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex information, explain financial tradeoffs to product and engineering audiences, and influence senior stakeholders.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment, exercising judgment with incomplete data, and revisiting decisions as new information emerges.
• Strong attention to detail, ownership, execution, and intellectual curiosity about AI, infrastructure, and developer tooling.
• Advanced Excel and Google Sheets skills.
• 4+ years of experience may qualify; level and title will match experience.

Nice to have

• Experience at an AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, or usage-based software company.
• Familiarity with GPU and compute economics, data center, or 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; familiarity with SQL or BI tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation with meaningful equity.
• Hybrid work in San Francisco or New York.
• Flexible PTO and company-wide Winter Break from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day.
• Paid parental leave and a fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot.
• For U.S. employees: 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for employees and dependents, plus company-facilitated 401(k).
• Exposure to ML startups and opportunities for learning and networking.