Executive Assistant to CTO & Head of Engineering, Baseten
$160-180k
+ Equity
Onsite Tuesday-Thursday
ML application builder for data scientists
Be an early applicant
ML application builder for data scientists
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-180k
+ Equity
Onsite Tuesday-Thursday
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make machine learning accessible to every organisation.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience supporting senior Engineering leaders (CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering, or similar) in a high-growth technology company. You understand how technical organizations operate and have experience supporting engineering operating rhythms, technical planning cycles, and fast-moving product development teams
- Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities without dropping details
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with strong judgment about when and how to communicate on behalf of executives
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex cross-functional initiatives involving many stakeholders
- Experience managing complex calendars, travel, executive communications, and recurring operating cadences
- Comfortable working with senior leaders, customers, candidates, and external partners with professionalism and executive presence
- Proactive, resourceful, and highly autonomous. You anticipate needs before they become problems
- High attention to detail and a strong sense of ownership. You take pride in creating structure, improving processes, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks
- Thrives in a high-growth environment where priorities change quickly and adaptability is essential
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced Executive Assistant to support our CTO and Head of Engineering
- This is a highly operational role that goes well beyond calendar management
- You’ll own the day-to-day operating rhythm of the Engineering organization, ensuring leaders are prepared, priorities stay coordinated, and critical meetings, communications, and follow-ups happen seamlessly
- You’ll partner closely with senior engineering leaders and serve as a trusted point of coordination for employees, customers, candidates, and external partners
- Success in this role comes from exceptional organization, judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to keep many moving pieces aligned in a fast-growing environment
- Own complex calendar management for the CTO and Head of Engineering, balancing shifting priorities while ensuring time is allocated intentionally
- Ensure leaders are prepared for every day and every meeting by proactively managing agendas, materials, context, logistics, and follow-ups so time is used effectively and decisions move forward
- Support forward-looking calendar planning, coordinating recurring operating cadences including roadmap planning, leadership meetings, P0 reviews, Engineering All Hands, and other cross-functional forums
- Own the operational cadence of the Engineering organization, including weekly leadership meetings, monthly Show & Tells, Engineering All Hands, roadmap planning, and other recurring forums
- Support the CTO and Head of Engineering in delivering an exceptional candidate and new hire experience—from providing high-touch support for executive candidates during onsite interviews to ensuring new team members are welcomed personally during their first week
- Partner with customers and external partners to coordinate executive meetings, visits, and other engagements
- Manage executive inboxes, helping prioritize communications, triage requests, and ensure timely follow-up
- Coordinate domestic and international travel, including last-minute changes
- Continuously improve how the Engineering leadership team operates by identifying opportunities to make processes more efficient, scalable, and reliable
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2026
$1.5bn
SERIES F
Jan 2026
$300m
SERIES E
Total funding: $2.1bn
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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