Capacity Strategy & Operations

About this role

Own Baseten’s end-to-end capacity planning, translating customer commitments and growth forecasts into GPU supply requirements. Coordinate forecasting, procurement, and fulfillment across teams and vendors, and guide decisions when capacity is constrained.

About the company

Baseten is an inference cloud that helps companies run and scale AI models in production with flexible infrastructure and developer tooling.

The team

Capacity Strategy & Operations team, within G&A and Compute.

What you'll do

• Build GPU demand forecasts across regions, hardware types, and timelines.
• Manage capacity planning from intake and prioritization through fulfillment and post-mortems.
• Coordinate with Finance, Capacity Acquisition, Sales, SRE, and Infrastructure on supply, commitments, and capacity conflicts.
• Model capacity scenarios and support CapEx decisions.
• Create leadership reporting on capacity health, utilization, and risks.
• Improve planning processes and operational cadence.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years in strategy, operations, consulting, finance, or a similar analytical and execution-focused role.
• Experience owning complex cross-functional processes with competing priorities.
• Strong quantitative skills, including building forecasts, scenario analyses, and capacity models.
• Strong communication skills and ability to make clear recommendations to senior leaders.
• High ownership and comfort working under pressure in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with GPU infrastructure, cloud platforms, or the AI/ML ecosystem.
• Experience building operational processes at a high-growth startup.
• Vendor or partner management experience in hardware, cloud, or infrastructure.

Benefits

• Meaningful equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Flexible PTO and company-wide Winter Break.
• Paid parental leave.
• Fertility and family-building stipend.
• Company-facilitated 401(k).