Strategic Finance Leader - AI/Infra, Equity & Flexible PTO

Black.ai; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity

Medical & dental benefits

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

401(k)

Learning & networking

Job summary

Baseten is seeking a strategic finance leader to join our fast-growing team in San Francisco. You will own and shape the finance function, from models and analytics to partnering with GTM, Product, and Infrastructure leaders.

You’ll influence pricing, deal structures, and capital allocations while building scalable reporting and processes. The role offers broad responsibility, with potential to lead a team and advance rapidly in a high-growth AI infrastructure company.

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.
• Advanced Excel / Google Sheets skills; familiarity with SQL or BI tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Financial Modeling: Build and maintain models across revenue, gross margin, compute costs, headcount, and strategic bets used by leadership.
• Business Partnership: Partner with GTM, Product, Infrastructure, and Operations to set targets and evaluate investments.
• Unit Economics: Analyze ARR, consumption, gross margin, GPU utilization, retention, and GTM efficiency.
• Pricing and Deals: Shape pricing, packaging, and structure of strategic customer and supplier deals.
• Board and Investors: Prepare board materials, investor updates, and fundraising analyses.
• Systems and Scale: Build reporting, dashboards, and processes that scale with revenue; use AI/automation to stay fast.
• Strategic Projects: Turn ambiguous questions into analysis and recommendations from market sizing to new lines.
• Leadership: For senior hires, own a major area of finance end to end, build and develop a team.

Skills

Strategic finance

Financial modeling

Analytical thinking

Executive communication

Excel/Sheets

Tools

SQL

BI tools

Job description

Baseten is seeking a strategic finance leader to join our fast-growing team in San Francisco. You will own and shape the finance function, from models and analytics to partnering with GTM, Product, and Infrastructure leaders.

You’ll influence pricing, deal structures, and capital allocations while building scalable reporting and processes. The role offers broad responsibility, with potential to lead a team and advance rapidly in a high-growth AI infrastructure company.