Senior Compensation Manager

ABOUT BASETEN

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $300M Series E backed by investors including BOND, IVP, Spark Capital, Greylock, and Conviction. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products.

THE ROLE

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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- 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 gr...