Executive Recruiter, Baseten
$180-210k
+ Equity
ML application builder for data scientists
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ML application builder for data scientists
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-210k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make machine learning accessible to every organisation.
Role
Who you are
- An experienced executive search professional. You have 8+ years in recruiting, with at least 4 years focused exclusively on VP- and C-suite searches — either in-house at a high-growth tech company, at a retained search firm, or both. You've closed complex leadership hires, not just moved them through a funnel
- A trusted partner to senior leaders. You know how to earn the confidence of a CEO or CFO — not by being agreeable, but by being honest, prepared, and consistently right. You push back when the brief is wrong and bring structure to ambiguous situations
- A world-class sourcer and networker. You find people who aren't on job boards and build relationships years before you need them. You know how to get a cold email read by a sitting VP of Engineering or a Chief Revenue Officer
- Discreet and high-judgment. You understand that executive searches require a different kind of care. You handle sensitive information with maturity, manage competing stakeholder interests without drama, and know when to escalate and when to absorb
- Rigorous and structured. You use scorecards, structured interviews, and clear evaluation criteria — not gut feel. You're data-aware, and you hold yourself and hiring teams accountable to a high and consistent bar
- Comfortable at a high-growth startup. You've operated in a fast-moving environment where the org chart changes quickly and you sometimes don't have all the information you'd like. You thrive in that ambiguity rather than retreating from it
What the job involves
- We're hiring an Executive Recruiter to own leadership hiring across Baseten — partnering directly with our CEO, executive team, and functional leaders to bring in the VP and C-suite talent that will define how we scale
- Leadership hires are among the highest-leverage decisions a company makes, and at this stage of growth, we need someone who can operate as a true strategic partner — not just a search executor
- You'll shape how we define and evaluate leadership, build rigorous and confidential search processes from scratch, and close exceptional candidates who could work anywhere
- This is a senior individual contributor role with outsized company impact
- You'll reduce our dependence on external search firms, build Baseten's internal executive recruiting capability, and set the standard for how leadership hiring works here
- Own end-to-end executive searches. Lead VP- and C-suite hiring across Engineering, GTM, Finance, Product, and Operations — from intake and role scoping through offer close. You'll run 6–10 active searches at any given time with full accountability for outcomes
- Partner directly with the CEO and executive team. Serve as the primary recruiting advisor for our most critical hires — shaping role definitions, structuring scorecards, advising on leveling, and driving alignment across decision-makers before a search ever goes live
- Build and own executive talent pipelines. Proactively source, map, and cultivate relationships with senior leaders across AI infrastructure, cloud, and enterprise SaaS — before we have open roles, not after
- Conduct high-signal executive assessments. Run structured screens that go deep on leadership behaviors, operating cadence, functional depth, and values alignment — and develop frameworks that help our teams evaluate consistently
- Navigate complex, confidential searches. Handle sensitive situations — backfill searches, competing internal candidates, re-leveling — with discretion, sound judgment, and clear communication to stakeholders
- Manage offer strategy and close. Lead the full compensation conversation for senior roles, partnering with People and Finance to build compelling packages and navigate complex negotiations with poise
- Deliver market and talent intelligence. Provide the executive team with real-time insight on leadership talent availability, competitor moves, compensation benchmarks, and organizational trends that inform our hiring and people strategy
- Build the executive recruiting function. Establish the processes, templates, tools, and norms that make Baseten's executive search practice repeatable and excellent — reducing reliance on retained search firms over time
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 build 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, all 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. Specifically, it's hired across engineering and marketing, gaining 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 are uncertain about how to actually use.
Simplifying the complex world of artificial intelligence for business is no mean feat, but with hundreds of millions in funding behind it and a $5 billion valuation reported in 2026, the company is well on its way to market domination. What's more, the three founders, who met whilst working as engineers at Gumroad, have a lot of experience in navigating this gap in the market.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2026
$300m
LATE VC
Sep 2025
$150m
SERIES D
Total funding: $585m
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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