Revenue Accounting Manager

Baseten; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Meaningful equity

Job summary

Baseten is seeking a Revenue Accounting Manager in San Francisco or New York to own the revenue cycle end-to-end. You will manage ASC 606 revenue recognition, billings, and contract review for complex usage‑based and multi‑year deals.

You’ll work closely with Sales, Legal, FP&A, and Revenue Ops to ensure accurate, compliant revenue reporting and audit readiness in a fast‑growing, equity‑driven environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience with 3+ years in revenue accounting and recognition.
• Deep knowledge of ASC 606, including variable consideration and usage-based revenue models.
• Hands-on experience reviewing contracts for accounting treatment.
• Experience owning billing operations end-to-end, not just reviews.
• Public company or audit-ready private company experience with audit exposure.
• Builder mentality with execution bias in a lean team.
• Experience with NetSuite and modern billing platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own revenue recognition under ASC 606 across all contract types, including usage-based and multi-year contracts.
• Own end-to-end billing: invoice generation, accuracy checks, dispute resolution.
• Build and maintain standardized contract review with Sales and Legal.
• Own sales and indirect tax processes and governance for multiple jurisdictions.
• Manage monthly close for revenue, including deferred revenue rollforward and AR.
• Collaborate with FP&A to reconcile billed vs. recognized revenue and support ARR forecasting.
• Prepare revenue-related audit deliverables and memos.

Skills

ASC 606 knowledge

Revenue recognition

Billing operations

Contract review

NetSuite

Audit readiness

Big 4 / audit exposure

Tools

ERP systems

Billing platform

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 to ship AI products.

The Role

We're looking for a Revenue Accounting Manager to own billing, contract review, and revenue recognition as Baseten scales. This is a hands‑on, individual‑contributor role for someone who wants full ownership of the revenue cycle at a company where deal structures are getting more complex: usage‑based pricing, committed capacity, credits, multi‑year enterprise contracts, and new business models coming online.

You'll join Lauren, who built Baseten's quote‑to‑cash function from the ground up, to take on billing, contract review, and revenue recognition as deal volume and complexity grow. Having completed our first year‑end audit, we're now focused on tightening contract review processes, close procedures, and reporting rigor to support the scale ahead. You'll partner closely with Lauren, FP&A, Sales, Legal, and Revenue Operations to make sure every deal is structured, billed, and recognized correctly from day one.

Baseten is building the infrastructure layer for AI‑native companies, and we're scaling quickly – in deal volume, contract complexity, and customer size. If you want real ownership over a growing function on a lean team, this role offers real scope.

Responsibilities

Revenue Recognition and Technical Accounting

• Own revenue recognition under ASC 606 across all contract types, including usage‑based/consumption arrangements, committed capacity deals, credits, multi‑year contracts, and new business models
• Serve as the go‑to person on rev rec treatment for new deal structures, products, and pricing models

Billing Operations

• Own end‑to‑end billing: invoice generation, accuracy checks, and dispute resolution
• Identify and automate manual, error‑prone steps in the billing‑to‑cash workflow
• Assist with strengthening our collections efforts and overall process

Contract Review and Deal Support

• Build and maintain a standardized contract review process for Sales and Legal, flagging non‑standard terms that affect recognition before deals close
• Partner directly with Sales, Revenue Operations, and Legal as a proactive advisor on deal structuring

Sales and Indirect Tax

• Own the sales and indirect tax process, including reviewing and maintaining our tax automation tool (nexus tracking, exemption certificates, filings), and building the governance around it as we scale into new jurisdictions

Close and Reporting

• Own the revenue‑related monthly close: deferred revenue rollforward, unbilled AR, credit memos, and revenue reserves
• Partner with FP&A to reconcile billed vs. recognized revenue and support ARR reporting and forecasting
• Own revenue‑related audit deliverables, including technical memos and sample testing support

Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 3+ years focused specifically on revenue accounting and recognition
• Deep working knowledge of ASC 606, including variable consideration, multiple performance obligations, and usage‑based revenue models
• Hands‑on experience reviewing and abstracting commercial contracts for accounting treatment
• Experience owning billing operations directly, not just reviewing output from a billing team
• Public company or audit‑ready private company experience (Big 4 or industry, with audit exposure)
• Builder mentality with a bias toward execution; comfortable operating on a lean team relative to company scale
• Experience with NetSuite (or comparable ERP) and a modern billing platform
• Based in San Francisco or New York, with the ability to work in‑person 3+ days per week

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience at a high‑growth, venture‑backed infrastructure or cloud company with usage‑based or hybrid pricing
• Experience with committed‑use/capacity contracts
• Experience overseeing sales and indirect tax compliance through an automated tax tool across multiple jurisdictions
• CPA
• Exposure to SOX controls in a revenue cycle context

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
• 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
• Company‑facilitated 401(k)
• Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.

Compensation Range: $145K - $160K

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).