About this role
Professionals who enjoy translating complex infrastructure into clear buyer narratives will thrive in this position at Baseten. The organization powers mission-critical inference for AI companies, uniting applied infrastructure and developer tooling to help teams run models in production. Team members shape positioning and go-to-market execution for dedicated inference capabilities such as autoscaling, routing, and observability.
Operating out of San Francisco, the person in this role partners closely with product, engineering, and sales teams to build credible technical messaging for machine learning engineers, platform leads, and enterprise executives. Baseten recently raised its Series F funding and offers an environment where staff collaborate on pipeline-generating campaigns and enterprise deal support.
What you will do
- Own positioning and messaging for dedicated inference and platform capabilities including autoscaling, routing, failover, and performance features.
- Translate infrastructure-heavy product work into buyer narratives for machine learning engineers, security teams, and executive audiences.
- Partner with product and engineering groups to understand technical architecture, roadmap tradeoffs, and customer value.
- Build and execute launch plans for major dedicated inference and serving platform capabilities from internal enablement to external announcements.
- Create launch assets such as messaging briefs, landing pages, blog posts, sales decks, and competitive talk tracks.
- Build a deep understanding of production inference challenges through customer and market intelligence.
- Collaborate with demand generation, sales, and customer marketing to turn product features into pipeline-generating campaigns.
What you need
- Bring six or more years of experience in product marketing, technical marketing, developer marketing, or related go-to-market roles.
- Demonstrate strong technical fluency with infrastructure concepts like autoscaling, routing, failover, capacity, and observability.
- Show a proven ability to translate complex technical products into differentiated positioning for practitioners and enterprise decision-makers.
- Possess a track record of building launch strategies and go-to-market plans for platform or infrastructure products with long sales cycles.
- Exhibit excellent storytelling skills that make technical infrastructure concrete, credible, and commercially urgent.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI and machine learning infrastructure, inference, model serving, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, DevOps, or distributed systems
- Experience marketing products to machine learning engineers, platform engineers, infrastructure leaders, security teams, or technical executives
- Experience building competitive positioning against cloud providers, inference providers, model API companies, or internal platforms
Benefits
- Competitive compensation including meaningful equity
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents in the U.S.
- Flexible PTO policy including a company-wide Winter Break from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
- Company-facilitated 401(k) for U.S. employees
Skills and tech stack
Questions candidates ask
What is the compensation for this role?
The salary range is $170K to $220K alongside offers of equity.
Where is the position located?
The role is based in San Francisco.
What kind of companies does Baseten work with?
The platform powers mission-critical inference for AI companies such as Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer.