Senior Compensation Manager, Baseten
$180-230k
+ Equity
ML application builder for data scientists
Open for applications
ML application builder for data scientists
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$180-230k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make machine learning accessible to every organisation.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in compensation or total rewards, ideally within high-growth technology companies (Series D through IPO stage preferred)
- Deep expertise in equity compensation, including stock options and RSUs, with experience designing and managing equity refresher programs
- Strong analytical rigor with advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets, HRIS systems, and benchmarking tools
- Proven experience designing and evolving salary bands, leveling frameworks, bonus plans, and variable or incentive compensation programs
- Comfortable leading companywide compensation and performance review cycles, including managing inputs from may stakeholders and calibrating across teams
- Ability to operate as both a strategic advisor to senior leadership and a hands-on builder of scalable, principled compensation systems
- High ownership and sound judgment in time-sensitive situations such as candidate negotiations, promotions, and retention decisions
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate compensation philosophy and influence cross-functional stakeholders
- Nice to have: Experience building and leading a team
- Nice to have: Experience owning benefits strategy and evaluating vendors, including healthcare funding models and 401(k) plan design
- If you are a motivated individual with a passion for machine learning and a desire to be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you
What the job involves
- Baseten is building for talent density
- We believe attracting and retaining exceptional people, and ensuring they feel recognized and valued for their impact, is core to becoming the best place to work
- Compensation is a critical lever in that mission
- As our Compensation Manager, you will own compensation programs company-wide
- You’ll be a trusted advisor to senior leaders, shaping our compensation philosophy, leveling framework, and equity programs to ensure we remain competitive, principled, and performance-oriented as we scale
- This role blends strategy and execution: designing clear, fair systems while moving quickly in a high-growth environment
- Own and evolve Baseten’s company-wide compensation strategy, philosophy, and programs
- Collaborate with leadership and HRBP to create and evolve job architecture and leveling frameworks
- Build and maintain compensation bands. Conduct regular market benchmarking to ensure comp bands and strategy remain competitive in a fast moving industry
- Partner closely with Talent to design and approve competitive new hire offers, advising on negotiation strategy within our compensation principles
- Lead bi-annual leveling and compensation review cycles to ensure market competitiveness and reward high performance across teams
- Manage new hire equity grants in partnership with Finance and Legal. Design and administer a thoughtful equity refresher program for tenured employees
- Oversee annual bonus planning and payouts, ensuring alignment with company performance and individual impact
- Partner with HRBPs and managers on compensation decisions related to promotions, retention, recognition, and off-cycle adjustments
- Select and optimize compensation tooling, ensuring data integrity, operational efficiency, and thoughtful use of automation
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 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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