Strategic Operations Lead

Base Power Company; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Base seeks a versatile business operations generalist to own high-leverage problems—from acquisitions to partnerships and market entries. You’ll build plans, run cadences, and track outcomes with leadership across engineering, market operations, legal, finance, and customer teams.

You’ll define goals, structure ambiguity, and deliver end-to-end analyses and memos that drive decisions. The role emphasizes clarity, pace, ownership, and collaboration, with a hands-on approach to complex strategic

Qualifications

• 4–8 years of experience, including a foundation at a top consulting firm.
• Led a cross-functional program end to end (integration, market entry, partnership launch).
• Strong analytical horsepower; build and sanity-check models.
• Strong writing that moves decisions.
• Ability to operate without a map and create structure where none exists.
• Low ego, high ownership with the ability to drive decisions quickly.
• Fluency working with AI and using agents to amplify output.

Responsibilities

• Own one high-leverage problem at a time; today that’s the integration of a recent acquisition; next it might be a commercial partnership, a market entry, or a financing
• Structure ambiguous problems; define the goal, name the owners, write the memo that forces the tradeoff, and get leadership to a decision in days, not weeks
• Build the analysis yourself; the model, the scoreboard, the one-pager
• Run programs across functions without authority; rally owners in engineering, market operations, legal, finance, and customer operations around the mission
• Work directly with Base's leadership team; your work usually touches the highest-level decisions
• Know the business cold; spend time with the deployment, markets, and customer teams so your recommendations survive contact with reality

Skills

Consulting background

Cross-functional program

Analytical skills

Writing skills

Autonomy / self-start

Ownership

AI fluency

Job description

Base seeks a versatile business operations generalist to own high-leverage problems—from acquisitions to partnerships and market entries. You’ll build plans, run cadences, and track outcomes with leadership across engineering, market operations, legal, finance, and customer teams.

You’ll define goals, structure ambiguity, and deliver end-to-end analyses and memos that drive decisions. The role emphasizes clarity, pace, ownership, and collaboration, with a hands-on approach to complex strategic