
Operations Engineer, GTM at Base Power Company (Austin, TX)
Base Power Company· Austin, TX·
Role details
Base Power Company at a glance
Base Power installs home batteries and sells below-market energy in Texas, earning its margin from the grid instead of your bill.
Base Power is a next-generation power company that installs whole-home backup batteries and sells fixed-rate, below-market electricity to homeowners, primarily in Texas. It coordinates its fleet of distributed batteries as a single grid asset, earning revenue from wholesale energy markets so it can keep customer rates low.
$1.3B raised · latest: Series C · $1B · October 2025 · backed by Addition, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Job description
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
This role exists to build the systems that keep our GTM engine fast, accurate, and scalable. We’re looking for a technical, systems-minded individual with experience improving how GTM teams operate. You’ll work across Sales, Marketing, and Engineering to design better workflows, connect data across systems, and build tools that help our teams move faster and operate more effectively.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys understanding how people work, translating that into system design, and building technical solutions when needed. You won’t be expected to be a full-time engineer, but you should feel comfortable working with data, APIs, and internal tools to bring ideas to life.
What You’ll Do
- Work with Sales, Marketing, and other GTM teams to optimize how leads, customers, and processes move through our systems.
- Identify bottlenecks and improve operational efficiency.
- Design workflows, automations, and internal tools that improve the speed and quality of GTM execution.
- Collaborate with Engineering to ensure clean and consistent data pipelines and integrations across CRM and internal tools.
- Build scalable, lightweight prototypes or automations, leveraging AI and cutting-edge technologies to drive process innovation.
- Improve the operating system that connects Sales, Marketing, and CS by identifying gaps and shipping fixes.
- Build a roadmap based on GTM needs, data insights, and your own observations.
What You'll Bring
- 2+ years in a product, growth, sales ops, revops, data engineering, or other ops roles.
- You’re a systems thinker who likes understanding how processes fit together across teams.
- Experience with CRM tools or working with GTM teams.
- You’re comfortable with technical concepts, including APIs, automation tools, and data structures.
- You can build simple tools or prototypes using workflow automation (Zapier), no/low-code app builders (Retool), basic full-stack apps (Next.js/FastAPI).
- You communicate well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Familiarity with SQL, scripting, and coding.
- Ability to quickly build reports, analyze results, and drive action from insights.
About The Team
The Growth team sets the pace for how fast Base can deliver affordable, reliable power to the people who need it. We operate as one team across marketing, sales, support, product, and design, lean and high-ownership. Everything we build comes back to one question: are we solving people's problems? We're building the world's most beloved company.
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.
OUR VALUES
- 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.
DO THE BEST WORK OF YOUR LIFE AT BASE.
Why work at Base Power Company
- Culture: Described as "intense, fast-paced, and deeply mission-driven." The company demands high output, ownership, and a bias toward action. It's explicitly stated as "not for everyone, and that's by design." This is a high-ownership, low-ambiguity environment.
- Work Model: On-site at Base HQ in Austin, Texas. Proximity to the product and team is central to how they move fast. "Do I need to be based in Texas? Yes."
- Hiring Speed: Fast process — aim for 1st conversation to offer in ~2 weeks.
- Interview Process: 3-4 hour on-site including technical assessments and behavioral/team conversations. Focus on "how [you] approach problems, communicate tradeoffs, and collaborate."
- Non-traditional backgrounds: Explicitly welcome: "We care about what you've built and how you think, not the logos on your resume. Some of our best people came from non-traditional paths."
- Engineering Culture: Heavy focus on hardware + software + field operations. Talent sources heavily from Tesla, Anduril, SpaceX — firms known for hardcore engineering and manufacturing excellence. Roles span hardware engineering, firmware, software, manufacturing, field installation/service, operations, growth, and design.
- Team Composition: ~29% of employees are in technical roles; ~15% in operations; significant representation of trades workers (11).
- Notable Perks: Opportunity to work on physical infrastructure deployed at scale; chance to contribute meaningfully to grid modernization and American energy resilience.