People Operations Manager, Baseten
$140-180k
+ Equity
ML application builder for data scientists
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ML application builder for data scientists
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-180k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make machine learning accessible to every organisation.
Role
Who you are
- This role is perfect for someone who loves the operational side of people work and keeping the many moving pieces of a growing company’s people infrastructure in sync
- 4+ years of experience in HR operations, people systems, or a related role within a fast-paced, scaling organization
- Experience managing immigration cases (visas, green cards, sponsorship) in partnership with immigration lawyers
- Hands-on experience with HRIS and PEO systems such as Justworks or Rippling
- Understanding of U.S. employment law and compliance requirements
- Experience hiring internationally and familiarity with international employment risks and considerations
- Demonstrated operational excellence with strong project management skills, able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously with strong attention to detail
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, with the ability to proactively create clarity for internal stakeholders
- High degree of integrity and discretion when handling sensitive employee data and situations
What the job involves
- As a People Operations Manager at Baseten, you’ll play a critical role in building and maintaining the HR infrastructure that enables our team to grow and thrive
- You’ll manage our HRIS and PEO, oversee compliance and benefits administration, and coordinate with vendors, EOR partners, and immigration counsel to make sure everything runs seamlessly behind the scenes
- Your work will ensure that every employee’s experience is clear, consistent, and compliant, enabling our rapidly growing team to focus on their work and our mission
- You'll own and optimize HR systems: Manage our HRIS and PEO, ensuring data integrity, process efficiency, and seamless employee experience. Evaluate when and how to transition off the PEO as the company scales
- International employment operations: Oversee immigration processes including employee visas and green cards. Evaluate risks and compliance considerations of hiring internationally through our EOR, and advise on global hiring strategy
- Vendor management: Serve as the point of contact for HR vendors, managing renewals, performance, and issue resolution. Lead evaluation and onboarding of new vendors across HR functions
- Compliance and audits: Maintain company compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws. Oversee required trainings, documentation, and audit readiness
- Benefits administration: Partner with leadership to select, implement, and manage employee benefits programs (medical, dental, vision, 401(k), etc.). Act as liaison between employees and benefits providers
- Leave management: Define, document, and administer leave policies (PTO, parental, medical, etc.), ensuring compliance with applicable regulations and consistent employee experience
- Offboarding and deprovisioning: Manage end-to-end employee offboarding, ensuring timely deprovisioning and final pay compliance
- Policy and documentation: Maintain and evolve the company’s HR handbook and internal wiki, ensuring they reflect current policies and practices
- State registrations and taxes: Coordinate with the PEO (and eventually internal resources) to manage multi-state registrations, tax accounts, and compliance as needed
Our take
As with its mathematical namesake, Baseten focuses on simplifying the complex. The San Francisco startup focuses on simplifying the integration of artificial intelligence into businesses. The tools that Baseten built demolish the need for businesses to hire specialised engineers, utilising the huge strides in artificial intelligence that we’ve seen in the last few years without adding workload to businesses.
With serious funding behind it, Baseten has grown its team by three times year-over-year over the last five years, especially across engineering and marketing. Having hired talent from companies such as GitHub, Google, Uber, Amazon, and Palantir, part of Baseten's focus is on helping companies implement the tools that they have at their disposal, a long-overlooked aspect of machine learning that many businesses have been eager to champion, but uncertain on how to actually use.
Simplifying the complex world of artificial intelligence for business is no mean feat but the three founders, who met whilst working as engineers at Gumroad, have a lot of experience in how to navigate this gap in the market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2025
$150m
SERIES D
Feb 2025
$75m
SERIES C
Total funding: $285m
Company benefits
- Remote-first work environment. The Baseten team is welcome to work from wherever they want; fully remote, in our San Francisco office, or a mix of both. Today, our team (including our founding team) is spread across the United States, Canada, and Armenia. We provide a $1,000 stipend for you to make your home-office comfortable and productive
- Regular in-person team summits. We get together as a team three times a year to plan, workshop, and most importantly, get to know each other better
- Unlimited PTO. We ask that everyone take at least 4 weeks of vacation. And we have a company-wide break between Christmas and New Year's Day
- Full healthcare coverage. Medical, dental and vision insurance for you and your family
- Paid parental leave. 16-weeks fully paid parental leave (adoptive and non-birth parents included) and flexibility with schedules while returning to work
- Company-sponsored 401(k) for you to contribute to
- Learning and development budget. We encourage you to take classes, attend conferences, and invest in your craft and we’ll cover expenses to make it happen
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Tuhin Srivastava
(Co-Founder)Previously Co-Founder at Shape, Machine Learning at Gumroad and Skulpt.
Amir Haghighat
(Co-Founder)Previously Head of Engineering at Gumroad, Software Engineer at Yelp and Engineering Manager at Clover Health.
Phillip Howes
(Co-Founder)Previously Co-Founder at Shape, Machine Learning Engineer at Gumroad and Research Assistant at the University of Sydney.
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