Baseten
Capacity Strategy & Operations
San Francisco · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 36 days ago
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About the role
- Define the decision framework for how Baseten allocates scarce GPU supply across competing customers and regions, including escalation paths and tradeoff criteria for leadership.
- Constrained Allocation Playbook: Define the decision framework for how Baseten allocates scarce GPU supply across competing customers and regions, including escalation paths and tradeoff criteria for leadership.
- Strategic Briefings for Leadership: Produce clear, concise capacity health reports and scenario analyses for senior leadership, enabling confident decisions on customer commitments, vendor negotiations, and CapEx allocation.
Responsibilities
- Own the capacity planning process end to end: intake, triage, prioritization, fulfillment tracking, and post-mortem learnings
- Partner with Finance to model capacity scenarios, evaluate new supply opportunities, and support CapEx decision-making
- Build and maintain the operational cadence that keeps capacity planning structured, visible, and free of ad-hoc Slack chaos
- Identify recurring operational gaps in the capacity lifecycle and drive process improvements that reduce toil and improve reliability
- Demonstrated ability to own complex, cross-functional processes with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
- Strong quantitative and modeling skills - comfortable building demand forecasts, scenario analyses, and capacity models from scratch
- High ownership mindset: you identify what is broken, build the fix, and follow through until it is working
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in strategy, operations, consulting, finance, or a similarly analytical and execution-oriented role
- Excellent communication skills, with a track record of distilling ambiguous situations into clear recommendations for senior leadership
Nice to have
- Familiarity with GPU infrastructure, cloud platforms, or AI/ML ecosystem
- Experience in a high-growth startup or Series B+ environment where operational processes were being built from scratch
Skills
- Demand-Supply Alignment Framework:
Compensation
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
- (U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
- Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
- Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.
- If you are a motivated individual with a passion for machine learning and a desire to be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you.
- Develop reporting and dashboards that give leadership a real-time view of capacity health, utilization trends, and risk exposure
Company info
- At Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.
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