Strategic Operations Lead, Cross‑Functional Initiatives

Base Power; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Base is seeking a high-impact operator to lead strategically important initiatives across acquisitions, partnerships, market entry, and financing. You will structure ambiguous problems, write decisive memos, and drive cross-functional execution with leadership involvement.

This role demands analytical rigor, strong writing, and a bias for action in a fast-moving startup environment. You will work directly with Base's leadership team, spending time with deployment, markets, and customer teams to

Qualifications

• 4-8 years of experience including a foundation at a top consulting firm.
• Led a cross-functional program end-to-end (integration, partnerships, market entry, or turnaround).
• Analytical horsepower; build the model, sanity-check against reality, identify key metrics.
• Writing that moves decisions.
• Comfort operating without a map; define your mandate and create structure where none exists.
• Low ego, high ownership; present to leadership quickly.
• Fluency working with AI; use agents to multiply output and verify results.

Responsibilities

• Own high-leverage problems such as integration of acquisitions, partnerships, market entry, or 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 deployment, markets, and customer teams so your recommendations survive contact with reality.

Skills

Top consulting experience

Analytical horsepower

Writing to move decisions

Cross-functional program leadership

Fluency with AI

Tools

AI agents

Job description

Base is seeking a high-impact operator to lead strategically important initiatives across acquisitions, partnerships, market entry, and financing. You will structure ambiguous problems, write decisive memos, and drive cross-functional execution with leadership involvement.

This role demands analytical rigor, strong writing, and a bias for action in a fast-moving startup environment. You will work directly with Base's leadership team, spending time with deployment, markets, and customer teams to