About the role
About Base 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.
About
the Role Base is scaling a vertically integrated energy infrastructure business that depends on producing the world’s lowest cost residential battery storage system. This role will partner with our operators across supply chain and manufacturing to scale this reality as fast and efficiently as possible. You will support manufacturing capex decisions, BOM cost-down initiatives, financial decisions around hardware design choices, and more. What You’ll Do Own the production operating budget — BOM cost, conversion cost, plant overhead, capacity utilization, labor, and capex — partnering with Manufacturing and Supply Chain leadership on monthly forecasts, the AOP, and long-range planning Build and maintain unit-economic models for Base hardware, translating engineering, sourcing, and process decisions into per-unit cost trajectories with decision-grade financial impact Drive capital deployment for the factory: model ROI/NPV for tooling, automation, and capacity additions; own intake, prioritization, and post-spend tracking of all manufacturing capex Run a tight monthly cadence on production and materials variances — partner with Operations and Supply Chain to root-cause misses and convert them into targets the operating teams can hold Translate supplier negotiations, alternate sourcing, and vertical integration decisions into financial impact; size cost-down opportunities and track them through to realization Define and measure the key operating metrics for production that give Mfg, Supply Chain, and the leadership team a clear view of targets and actuals Partner with Accounting on standard cost setting, inventory valuation, and month-end close; build the analytical layer that lives on top of the cost ledger Develop the data and analytics infrastructure (NetSuite, BigQuery) underpinning manufacturing and supply chain reporting — replace spreadsheet workflows with durable tools What You’ll Bring 5+ years in manufacturing finance, operations finance, or plant FP&A at a hardware company —