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Baseten powers mission-critical inference for leading AI companies including Cursor, Notion, Abridge, and Writer. The company recently raised $1.5B in Series F funding and is scaling rapidly across multiple countries and entities.
As Global Equity Programs Lead, you will own equity administration end-to-end, building the operating model, controls, and systems that enable equity to run accurately and efficiently as the company grows. This is a hands-on operational role requiring deep involvement with data, transactions, and cross-functional coordination.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building the operating model for equity administration across countries, entities, and complex transactions
- Running the recurring equity calendar (grants, vesting, exercises, terminations, participant transactions) with clear ownership and exception management
- Owning equity record integrity and establishing reconciliations across equity platform, HRIS, payroll, cap table, and accounting
- Translating compensation decisions into executable workflows, system configurations, and employee communications
- Partnering with Legal, Tax, Payroll, Compensation, and Accounting on equity implications of international hiring, employee mobility, acquisitions, and liquidity programs
- Coordinating operational execution of equity refreshes including data prep, approvals, documentation, and communications
- Evaluating whether award structures can be administered at scale and surfacing operational, tax, compliance, and employee-experience risks
- Designing controls that support accurate financial reporting, efficient audits, and reconciliations
- Developing reporting on dilution, grant activity, vesting, exercises, retention trends, and future obligations
- Owning the equity platform, its configuration, permissions, integrations, vendor performance, and system improvements
- Creating employee resources for onboarding, grant issuance, vesting, exercise, and departure
- Identifying manual work and implementing practical automation
- As the function grows, defining team structure and determining build-versus-buy decisions
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of progressive equity administration or equity operations experience, ideally in rapidly scaling private or newly public technology companies
- Demonstrated ownership of complex equity operations (not advisory-only), with willingness to remain close to underlying data and transactions
- Strong knowledge of stock options, RSUs, vesting and settlement events, tax withholding, employee mobility, and operational requirements of equity plans
- Hands-on experience administering a leading equity platform and working with connected HRIS, payroll, accounting, and reporting systems
- Strong control mindset including experience designing reconciliations, approval workflows, documentation, and audit support
- Ability to diagnose data issues, work through complex exceptions, and establish repeatable processes without established playbooks
- Strong cross-functional judgment and ability to clarify ownership and drive decisions across Legal, People, Tax, Payroll, Finance, and external advisors
- Clear written and verbal communication, including ability to explain employee equity accurately without giving personal tax or legal advice
- Strong discretion handling compensation, ownership, transaction, and employee data
- Ability to manage multiple time-sensitive workstreams while maintaining accuracy
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Certified Equity Professional certification or meaningful progress toward it
- Experience supporting international equity programs and cross-border employee mobility
- Experience with significant corporate transactions affecting equity (acquisitions, tender offers, financings)
- Working knowledge of stock-based compensation accounting and data needs for close, forecasting, audit, and financial reporting
- Familiarity with insider trading policies and equity compliance in highly regulated environments
- Experience building or expanding an equity operations team
