Strategic Finance Lead, Training & New Products

Baseten; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 205,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity

Medical/dental/vision for US employees

Flexible PTO and Winter Break

Parental leave

401(k)

Learning and networking opportunities

Job summary

Baseten is seeking a high-impact Strategic Finance professional to own the end-to-end economics of Training as we launch new product lines. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and GTM leadership on pricing, margins, and capacity decisions to shape each business.

This builder role focuses on models, dashboards, and processes that do not yet exist. Ideal candidates have 5–8 years in strategic finance at fast-growing firms or in PE/VC, plus experience with usage-based

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in strategic finance at a high-growth company, PE/VC investing, and/or investment banking.
• Excellent financial modeling and analytical skills, including building unit economics or cost-to-serve models from raw usage and cost data.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations for executives.
• Comfortable building from scratch and making decisions with incomplete data in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong attention to detail with a bias toward ownership and execution.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• High intellectual curiosity and interest in AI / infrastructure / developer tooling.
• Advanced Excel / Google Sheets skills; familiarity with SQL or BI tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cost-to-serve models for Training engagements across compute, delivery time, and reserved capacity.
• Own Training pricing and recommend structures across committed engagements, usage-based pricing, and packaged offerings.
• Track training capacity utilization and tie capacity plans to pipeline.
• Run the monthly Training business review across bookings, utilization, margin, pipeline, and renewal and expansion trends.
• Own the Training forecast and annual plan, including compute needs, unit costs, and multi-year P&L.
• Partner with Product on new products from concept onward, building pre-launch business cases, cost-to-serve views, and go/no-go recommendations.
• Set launch pricing and packaging for new products.
• Define success metrics and scale criteria at launch.

Skills

Financial modeling

Analytical thinking

Executive communication

Decision making

Strategic finance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/Finance/Economics

Tools

Excel/Google Sheets

SQL/BI tools

Job description

Baseten is seeking a high-impact Strategic Finance professional to own the end-to-end economics of Training as we launch new product lines. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and GTM leadership on pricing, margins, and capacity decisions to shape each business.

This builder role focuses on models, dashboards, and processes that do not yet exist. Ideal candidates have 5–8 years in strategic finance at fast-growing firms or in PE/VC, plus experience with usage-based