Capacity Strategy & Operations Lead

Precision Labs; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Meaningful equity

Medical, dental, and vision insurance 

Flexible PTO including Winter Break

Paid parental leave

Fertility and family-building stipend

Company-facilitated 401(k)

Exposure to ML startups

Job summary

Baseten is seeking a Capacity Strategy & Operations leader to orchestrate end‑to‑end capacity planning for a fast‑moving hardware market. You will translate commitments and growth forecasts into GPU demand signals, coordinate across Sales, SRE, Finance, and Vendors, and drive repeatable processes.

You will model scenarios, make recommendations, and guide leadership decisions. This role combines strategy and execution, requiring strong quantitative skills, cross‑functional collaboration, and a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in strategy, operations, consulting, finance, or a similarly analytical and execution‑oriented role.
• Demonstrated ability to own complex, cross‑functional processes with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Strong quantitative and modeling skills — comfortable building demand forecasts, scenario analyses, and capacity models from scratch.
• Excellent communication skills, with a track record of distilling ambiguous situations into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
• High ownership mindset: you identify what is broken, build the fix, and follow through until it is working.
• Operates well under pressure and in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments where the playbook does not yet exist.

Responsibilities

• Own the capacity planning process end to end: intake, triage, prioritization, fulfillment tracking, and post‑mortem learnings
• Translate customer commitments, sales pipeline, and infrastructure growth targets into concrete GPU demand forecasts across regions, GPU types, and timelines
• Partner with Finance to model capacity scenarios, evaluate new supply opportunities, and support CapEx decision‑making
• Work closely with the Capacity Acquisition team to align supply procurement with forward demand, flagging gaps and risks early
• Coordinate cross‑functionally across Sales, SRE, and Infrastructure teams to resolve capacity conflicts and ensure customer commitments are honored
• Build and maintain the operational cadence that keeps capacity planning structured, visible, and free of ad‑hoc Slack chaos
• Develop reporting and dashboards that give leadership a real‑time view of capacity health, utilization trends, and risk exposure
• Identify recurring operational gaps in the capacity lifecycle and drive process improvements that reduce toil and improve reliability

Job description

Baseten is seeking a Capacity Strategy & Operations leader to orchestrate end‑to‑end capacity planning for a fast‑moving hardware market. You will translate commitments and growth forecasts into GPU demand signals, coordinate across Sales, SRE, Finance, and Vendors, and drive repeatable processes.

You will model scenarios, make recommendations, and guide leadership decisions. This role combines strategy and execution, requiring strong quantitative skills, cross‑functional collaboration, and a