About this role
Financial management for the training business involves building and maintaining cost-to-serve models across compute, delivery time, and reserved capacity while tracking capacity utilization and tying capacity plans to the pipeline. Strategic finance professionals joining the product finance team take ownership of the economics of Training end to end and act as the finance owner for new product lines from idea through launch and scale. Daily duties include running monthly business reviews, managing forecasts, and partnering directly with product, engineering, infrastructure, and go-to-market leadership on pricing, margin, and capacity decisions.
Baseten powers mission-critical inference for dynamic artificial intelligence companies by uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling. The growing team recently raised a Series F funding round led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital to help build the platform engineers use to ship AI products. This builder role requires establishing new models, dashboards, and processes from scratch in a fast-scaling infrastructure environment.
Candidates best suited for this position possess five to eight years of experience across strategic finance, investing, or investment banking. A strong candidate demonstrates exceptional financial modeling abilities, a bias toward ownership, and the capacity to make decisions with incomplete data in a fast-moving setting.
What you will do
- Develop and maintain comprehensive cost-to-serve models for Training engagements encompassing compute, delivery time, and reserved capacity.
- Determine Training pricing and recommend structures that span committed engagements, usage-based pricing, and packaged offerings.
- Monitor training capacity utilization and directly connect capacity plans to the sales pipeline.
- Execute the monthly Training business review covering bookings, utilization, margin, pipeline, and renewal trends.
- Manage the Training forecast and annual plan, which includes tracking compute needs, unit costs, and multi-year P&L.
- Collaborate with the Product team on new product concepts by building pre-launch business cases, cost-to-serve views, and strategic recommendations.
- Establish launch pricing and packaging strategies for newly introduced product lines.
- Establish clear success metrics and scale criteria for products at the time of launch.
What you need
- Hold a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, or Economics.
- Demonstrate five or more years of professional experience in strategic finance at a high-growth company, private equity or venture capital investing, and/or investment banking.
- Exhibit advanced financial modeling and analytical capabilities, including the creation of unit economics or cost-to-serve models using raw usage and cost data.
- Possess the ability to distill complex information into clear, actionable recommendations for executive leadership.
- Maintain comfort with building operations from scratch and making sound decisions with incomplete data in a fast-paced environment.
- Display strong attention to detail combined with a high degree of ownership and execution.
- Demonstrate excellent communication and presentation skills alongside high intellectual curiosity regarding AI infrastructure and developer tooling.
- Possess advanced skills in Excel or Google Sheets, with familiarity in SQL or BI tools acting as a plus.
Nice to have
- Experience with GPU compute economics or cloud infrastructure
- Familiarity with how ML model training and fine-tuning work
- Experience with product-led growth economics, such as free tiers, credits, and conversion
- Experience pricing or launching a new product line
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents (U.S. only)
- Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break with offices closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
- Company-facilitated 401(k) (U.S. only)
Skills and tech stack
Questions candidates ask
What is the compensation and equity structure for this role?
The salary ranges from $205K to $248K and includes offers for meaningful equity.
What type of experience is required for the position?
The role requires 5 to 8 years of experience across strategic finance, investing, and/or investment banking, ideally with a background in strategic finance at a high-growth company.
What are the primary responsibilities regarding new products?
You will own the economics of Training end to end and act as the finance owner for new products as they go from idea to launch to scale. This involves partnering with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and GTM leadership on pricing, margin, and capacity decisions.
What benefits are provided for U.S. employees?
U.S. employees receive 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for themselves and dependents, along with a company-facilitated 401(k).