Deployment Finance & Business Operations

About the Role

This is the single finance partner for the organization that gets a Base battery from the factory to the house and maintains it for its full life. You own the economics of install and field service end-to-end - electrician labor, logistics, permitting, truck rolls, parts, warranty, and the full 10+ year lifecycle cost of every battery in the fleet.

As Base scales to thousands of homes per month across Texas and into new markets, the install-cost-per-home curve and the service-cost-per-fleet-year curve are two of the most consequential lines in the long-range plan. Success is judged on two things: how close your forecast lands, and whether deployments and field-ops leaders treat you as a valuable partner in driving toward our long-term targets.

What You’ll Do

• Own the forecast and BvA for install cost, field labor, logistics, permitting, and ongoing O&M - at a level of accuracy that survives both the operator's eye and the corporate model.
• Build the unit-cost model for installations - flexed across geographies, channels, crew structures, and site complexity - and reconcile it weekly against job-level data from the field.
• Partner with deployments and field-service leadership on the cost-down roadmap - drive install-cost-per-home down, route density up, and rework out of the system.
• Own the financial framework for the 10+ year service obligation - truck rolls, parts consumption, warranty reserves, and fleet lifecycle margin - and translate it into the per-battery economics that govern the unit model.
• Sit at the intersection of field ops, supply chain, customer service, and accounting - feed clean, defensible inputs into the consolidated corporate model and translate the model back into something a crew lead can act on.
• Go ride installs and service calls - pressure-test a number with the crew before you defend it in a review.
• Use AI tooling aggressively to compress cycle time on job-level analytics and forecasting - automate the pull from dispatch, ERP, and field systems so your time goes to judgment, not data plumbing.

What You’ll Bring

• 3-7 years in finance or operations at a deployment-, field-service-, or logistics-heavy business at meaningful scale - Sunrun, Sunnova, ChargePoint, EVgo, Tesla Energy, last-mile logistics, or comparable. However, also open to generalists from operating finance roles, consulting, investing, or investment banking roles to jump in and learn this.
• Track record of building install-cost or service-cost models that drove real cost-down programs in production - not just running someone else's model.
• Strong intuition for field economics - labor productivity, route density, fixed-vs-variable structure, the long tail of warranty cost - and a point of view on which levers actually compound.
• Comfortable in the field - will ride along on an install, walk a service yard, and pressure-test a number with a crew lead before defending it to the CEO/COO.
• First-principles instincts on physical operations - can model a network of trucks, technicians, parts, and homes without losing the unit, and knows where the model lies.
• Excel and SQL as native tools; comfortable working with operational data at scale and getting into BI (Omni, Looker) directly rather than waiting on a request queue.
• Thrives in ambiguity - structures the work, reaches defensible conclusions, documents clearly, and moves at Base Pace.