Strategic Finance Leader - AI Growth & Pricing

Baseten; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity and compensation

Medical, dental, vision for employee &

Flexible PTO incl. Winter Break

Paid parental leave

Fertility and family-building stipend

401(k)

Exposure to ML startups and learning

Job summary

Baseten in San Francisco is building a high-performing strategic finance team and seeking exceptional people at every level. You’ll own hard, ambiguous problems, build what doesn’t exist yet, and assume more responsibility quickly as the company scales.

The role sits at the center of growth decisions, pricing, margins, and compute capacity, partnering with finance leadership and executives to shape Baseten’s trajectory.

Qualifications

• Experience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, PE/VC investing, and/or consulting.
• Excellent financial modeling and analytical skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations for executives.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
• Strong attention to detail with a bias toward ownership and execution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including explaining financial tradeoffs to product and engineering audiences and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Sound judgment when data is incomplete, and comfort making a call and revisiting it as you learn more.
• High intellectual curiosity and interest in AI / infrastructure / developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Financial Modeling: Build and maintain models across revenue, gross margin, compute costs, headcount, and strategic bets that leadership uses to make decisions.
• Business Partnership: Partner with leaders across GTM, Product, Infrastructure, and Operations to set targets, evaluate investments, and work through operational tradeoffs.
• Unit Economics: Analyze the metrics that define a usage-based business, including ARR, consumption trends, gross margin, GPU utilization, retention, and GTM efficiency.
• Pricing and Deals: Shape pricing, packaging, and the structure of strategic customer and supplier deals.
• Board and Investors: Help prepare board materials, investor updates, and fundraising analyses.
• Systems and Scale: Build the reporting, dashboards, and processes that let finance scale as fast as our revenue. Use AI and automation extensively to keep the team fast and lean.
• Strategic Projects: Turn ambiguous business questions into clear analysis and recommendations, from market sizing to scenario planning to new business lines.
• Leadership: For senior hires, own a major area of finance end to end, build and develop a team, and act as a thought partner to Finance leadership and the executive team.

Skills

Financial modeling

Analytical skills

Executive communication

Ambiguity handling

Ownership

Excel/Sheets

SQL/BI basics

Tools

Excel

Google Sheets

SQL

BI tools

Job description

Baseten in San Francisco is building a high-performing strategic finance team and seeking exceptional people at every level. You’ll own hard, ambiguous problems, build what doesn’t exist yet, and assume more responsibility quickly as the company scales.

The role sits at the center of growth decisions, pricing, margins, and compute capacity, partnering with finance leadership and executives to shape Baseten’s trajectory.