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Austin, Texas, United States
Onsite
Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.
The business operations team at Base is a lean group of generalists who take high-stakes, not-very-defined problems, gives them structure, and drives them to completion. The work changes with the company's priorities: one quarter it's owning the integration of an acquisition end to end, the next it's structuring a partnership with a national brand, building the analysis behind a new market entry, or standing up the operating cadence for a function scaling faster than its process. Whatever the assignment, the shape is the same: you build the plan, run the cadence, and keep the scoreboard, all while working with teammates across the company (systems, market operations, legal, finance, customer operations). You get results through clarity, pace, and follow-through. Then you move to the next problem of similar weight across our commercial and financial priorities; there is always a list for effective generalists who know the business well.
Own one high-leverage problem at a time; today that's the integration of a recent acquisition; next it might be a commercial partnership, a market entry, or a financing
Structure ambiguous problems; define the goal, name the owners, write the memo that forces the tradeoff, and get leadership to a decision in days, not weeks
Build the analysis yourself; the model, the scoreboard, the one-pager
Run programs across functions without authority; rally owners in engineering, market operations, legal, finance, and customer operations around the mission
Work directly with Base's leadership team; your work usually touches the highest-level decisions
Know the business cold; spend time with the deployment, markets, and customer teams so your recommendations survive contact with reality
4-8 years including a foundation at a top consulting firm with top-bucket ratings; bonus points if followed by an operating seat where you owned outcomes, not recommendations
A cross-functional program you personally ran end to end; an integration, market entry, partnership launch, or turnaround
Analytical horsepower; you build the model yourself, sanity-check it against reality, and know which three numbers matter
Writing that moves decisions
Comfort operating without a map; you define your own mandate, create structure where none exists, and don't need permission to start
Low ego, high ownership; you'll chase down a wire confirmation and present to the leadership team in the same afternoon
Fluency working alongside AI; you use agents to multiply your output, and you know when to check their work
The Base business operations team is responsible for some of the company's highest-leverage outcomes: financing our growth, commercial partnerships, acquisitions and integrations, new market and product entries, and the programs that span too many teams to have a natural owner. It is a set of small teams of generalists who work directly with Base's founders, pick up the problem that matters most, build the structure and analysis it needs, and hand back something that runs itself.
Please note: Base is a startup, which means priorities shift and evolve quickly. Your role may expand or change based on the needs of the business at any given time, so the responsibilities listed may not be exhaustive.
First Principles Thinking: Question assumptions. Principles > rules.
Operate at Base Pace: Focus on what matters, act quickly, and learn by doing.
Give & Get Feedback: Be direct, be humble, and maintain a growth mindset.
Everyone’s an Owner: Follow through on commitments and own results.
Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: Drive clarity and make calls with imperfect information.
Committed to the Mission: Rebuilding the grid is a big challenge. We work hard because we care deeply about the impact we’re creating. We work in-person. It’s not a 9-to-5. We are all-in.
Fun & Optimism Coexist with Grit: Collaboration and celebration coincide with the intensity of building real things.
