IT Strategy Lead: AI, Data & Infrastructure Roadmaps

Base; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Base is seeking an IT Strategy Lead to future-proof its growing technology stack across software, AI, data, and infrastructure. You’ll own spend analysis, planning, and governance, partnering with IT Operations and the executive team.

This role requires translating technical priorities into business decisions, building roadmaps, and planning for Base’s offices, warehouses, and factory sites, while keeping data usable and secure as the company scales.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in IT or technology strategy with planning experience.
• Experience auditing software and AI spend at scale.
• Experience building a data governance program from scratch (inventory, ownership, policy).
• Comfort working directly with executives, translating technical tradeoffs into business decisions.
• Experience planning IT infrastructure across multiple physical sites (offices, warehouses, factories).
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills across all levels of the organization.
• Exceptional organizational and planning abilities — top 1%.

Responsibilities

• Build and own Base’s software and AI spend program - inventory every tool and AI subscription, tie spend to usage and productivity, and work with engineering leadership to develop a management program.
• Plan software implementations - evaluate new platforms, run selection processes, and own rollout plans from pilot to company-wide adoption.
• Own infrastructure planning - turn Base’s growth plan into a rolling technology roadmap for new offices, warehouses, and factory sites.
• Partner closely with the IT Operations team to execute that roadmap on the ground.
• Organize and govern Base’s data - build the inventory, assign ownership, and write the policies that keep data usable and secure as Base scales.
• Serve as the business-level interface for IT by translating technical priorities into terms executives can act on, and translate business priorities into a technology plan.

Skills

IT strategy leadership

Executive stakeholder management

Auditing software & AI spend

Data governance program development

IT infrastructure planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Base is seeking an IT Strategy Lead to future-proof its growing technology stack across software, AI, data, and infrastructure. You’ll own spend analysis, planning, and governance, partnering with IT Operations and the executive team.

This role requires translating technical priorities into business decisions, building roadmaps, and planning for Base’s offices, warehouses, and factory sites, while keeping data usable and secure as the company scales.