baseten - Capacity Strategy & Operations

San Francisco, California, United States$190k - $235k+ Equity3w ago

In Office Senior NA Logistics Head of Strategy Reporting Procurement Slack

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in strategy, operations, consulting, finance, or a similarly analytical and execution-oriented role • 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 • Excellent communication skills, with a track record of distilling ambiguous situations into clear recommendations for senior leadership • High ownership mindset: you identify what is broken, build the fix, and follow through until it is working • Operates well under pressure and in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where the playbook does not yet exist • 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 • Exposure to vendor or partner management, particularly in hardware, cloud, or infrastructure contexts

Responsibilities

• Own the capacity planning process end to end: intake, triage, prioritization, fulfillment tracking, and post-mortem learnings • Translate customer commitments, sales pipeline, and infrastructure growth targets into concrete GPU demand forecasts across regions, GPU types, and timelines • Partner with Finance to model capacity scenarios, evaluate new supply opportunities, and support CapEx decision-making • Work closely with the Capacity Acquisition team to align supply procurement with forward demand, flagging gaps and risks early • Coordinate cross-functionally across Sales, SRE, and Infrastructure teams to resolve capacity conflicts and ensure customer commitments are honored • Build and maintain the operational cadence that keeps capacity planning structured, visible, and free of ad-hoc Slack chaos • Develop reporting and dashboards that give leadership a real-time view of capacity health, utilization trends, and risk exposure • Identify recurring operational gaps in the capacity lifecycle and drive process improvements that reduce toil and improve reliability

Benefits

• $190K – $235K • Offers Equity • Competitive compensation. We aim to provide 90th percentile (or better) salaries and equity grants for every team member commensurate with their experience. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran