Head of Real Estate & Workplace

Baseten; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Meaningful equity

Medical/dental/vision insurance (US)

Flexible PTO including winter break

Parental leave

Retirement plan (401k)

Learning/networking opportunities

Job summary

Baseten seeks a Head of Environment to design and scale the physical expression of the company from a few hundred to thousands of employees in San Francisco. You will own global workplace strategy, spaces, and experiences, partnering with founders to preserve Baseten’s culture while scaling operations.

You will lead a Workplace Experience team, build scalable processes, and ensure exceptional experiences across offices, with travel to other locations as needed.

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading Workplace/Environment or similar at a hypergrowth tech company.
• Ability to earn trust with founders and senior leaders.
• Strong strategic/analytical thinking with real estate investments.
• Excellent cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management.
• Exceptional taste and high quality bar for environments and experiences.
• Hospitality mindset focused on exceptional employee and guest experiences.
• Builder of scalable systems and experiences.
• Based in San Francisco with regular travel to other locations.

Responsibilities

• Own Baseten’s global workplace and real estate strategy and long-term footprint roadmap.
• Lead end-to-end workplace operations, office builds, relocations, and launches with a focus on quality and hospitality.
• Shape the look, feel, and personality of Baseten spaces and experiences.
• Develop and scale the Workplace Experience team for continued excellence.

Skills

Workplace leadership

Real estate

Facilities management

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Hospitality mindset

Team building

San Francisco presence

Job description

ABOUT BASETEN

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F, led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products.

THE ROLE

We’re looking for a Head of Environment to build the physical expression of Baseten as we grow from roughly 300 employees today to more than 2,000 over the next couple of years.

You’ll own the environments, spaces, and experiences that define what it feels like to work at Baseten. This is equal parts operations, hospitality, design, and strategy. You’ll partner closely with our founders and leadership team to create an environment that scales with the company while remaining unmistakably Baseten.

You’ll inherit a strong Workplace Experience team and continue to evolve the function into one of the defining strengths of the company. We’re looking for someone who has built and scaled world-class workplace functions before; someone who has seen what’s ahead and can help us get there faster.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own Baseten’s global workplace and real estate strategy, developing the long-term roadmap for how our physical footprint evolves as we scale from hundreds to thousands of employees. Lead real estate planning, site selection, expansions, and significant capital investments across our headquarters, growing network of smaller offices, and future international locations.

• Build and operate exceptional workplaces. Own end-to-end workplace operations, office buildouts, relocations, and launches, ensuring every office runs smoothly with an uncompromising bar for quality, hospitality, and attention to detail.

• Define the physical expression of Baseten. Shape the look, feel, and personality of our spaces, creating environments and experiences that are distinctly Baseten-from interior design and amenities to office traditions and the way we welcome employees, customers, candidates, investors, and guests.

• Lead and develop our Workplace Experience team, building a high-performing organization that scales alongside the company while continually raising the bar for execution and ownership

REQUIREMENTS

• 10+ years of experience leading Workplace, Environment, Employee Experience, or a similar function at a hypergrowth technology company, helping scale from hundreds to thousands of employees across multiple U.S. and international offices. You’ve done this before. You know what breaks during periods of explosive growth and you’ve built the teams, systems, and operating model to stay ahead of it.

• The ability to build trust quickly with founders and senior leaders. You’ll develop a deep intuition for what feels authentically Baseten and apply that judgment independently as we scale.

• Strong strategic and analytical thinking, with experience making high-quality decisions involving significant real estate investments, competing priorities, and rapid growth

• Excellent cross-functional leadership and the ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments

• Exceptional taste and an uncompromising quality bar. You notice the details others miss and care deeply about creating environments that feel intentional, memorable, and distinctly Baseten.

• A hospitality mindset. You believe the environments people work in matter, and you obsess over creating exceptional experiences for employees, customers, candidates, investors, and guests.

• A builder who enjoys creating systems and experiences that scale

• Based in San Francisco and excited to spend the majority of your time in our office, with regular travel to our other locations

LOCATION

In-person in San Francisco 3+ days/week

BENEFITS

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity

• (U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents

• Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)

• Paid parental leave

• Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot

• (U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k)

• Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.

At Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable).