StrategicFinanceAssociate/Sr.Associate

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $300M Series E https://www.baseten.co/blog/announcing-baseten-s-300m-series-e/, backed by investors including BOND, IVP, Spark Capital, Greylock, and Conviction. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE We’re looking for a high-performing strategic finance professional to join our growing Finance team. This role is ideal for someone with 3 - 4 years of experience across investment banking, venture capital, private equity and/or strategic finance who wants broad exposure to company-building inside a fast-scaling AI infrastructure company. Experience in strategic finance is a plus, but not required.   You’ll work closely with Finance leadership and partner cross-functionally across the Finance leadership team.   THE RESPONSIBILITIES - Support company-wide financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes - Build and maintain operating and financial models across revenue, infrastructure costs, hiring, and strategic initiatives - Help prepare board materials, investor updates, and fundraising analyses - Partner with business leaders to evaluate investments, acquisitions, pricing, growth initiatives, and operational tradeoffs - Analyze consumption and infrastructure metrics including ARR, gross margin, usage trends, retention, and efficiency metrics - Drive ad hoc strategic projects including market analysis and scenario planning - Improve financial reporting processes, dashboards, and operational rigor as the company scales - Act as key data and modeling lead on reporting and analysis - Assist with finance operations, procuremen