Product Finance Lead: Partnerships & Growth

Baseten; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision for you &

Flexible PTO including Winter Break

Parental leave

Fertility and family-building stipend

401(k) company-facilitated

Equity opportunity

Learning across ML startups

Job summary

Baseten is seeking a high-impact senior strategic finance professional to own distribution and labs partnerships. You will design deal structures, model economics, and align partnerships with Baseten’s product strategy and compute needs.

You’ll partner with Partnerships, Product, Infrastructure, GTM, and Legal leadership in a builder role. This role targets 7–10 years in finance, with strong modeling, commercial structuring, and executive communication.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of strategic finance, corporate development, investing, and/or investment banking experience.
• Deep understanding of product unit economics and strong financial modeling skills.
• Experience structuring commercial agreements and analyzing downstream impacts.
• Ability to synthesize complex information for executives and influence deal discussions.
• Comfort with building from scratch using incomplete data and driving ownership.

Responsibilities

• Build deal models for partnerships, including pricing, revenue share, and capacity costs.
• Evaluate partner proposals and design structures that protect margins and enable closures.
• Own commercial frameworks for partnerships, including tiering and rate cards.
• Quantify strategic value and link forecasts to capacity and GPU supply plans.
• Track performance and tie partnerships to the annual plan; collaborate on roadmap inputs.

Skills

Strategic finance

Corporate development

Financial modeling

Executive communication

Investment banking background

Tools

Excel/Google Sheets

SQL

BI tools

Job description

Baseten is seeking a high-impact senior strategic finance professional to own distribution and labs partnerships. You will design deal structures, model economics, and align partnerships with Baseten’s product strategy and compute needs.

You’ll partner with Partnerships, Product, Infrastructure, GTM, and Legal leadership in a builder role. This role targets 7–10 years in finance, with strong modeling, commercial structuring, and executive communication.