ABOUT BASETEN
Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F, led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products.
THE ROLE
We're looking for an exceptional Motion Designer to help bring the Baseten brand to life.
This will be a defining role on the brand design team. You'll shape the motion language for Baseten and bring it to life across everything from product launches and social video to huge out-of-home campaigns, events, web, and experimental brand work.
We're building a brand in a market that's moving fast, and we want the work to feel just as ambitious. This isn't a role focused on turning out one-off animations or supporting an existing system - you'll help define and build the system, push it into places we haven’t thought about, and set the bar for motion across the company.
You'll partner closely with brand, product, marketing, and leadership to turn technical ideas into work that's clear, distinctive, and memorable.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Define and evolve the motion language for the Baseten brand.
Create high-craft motion work across product launches, social, campaigns, web, events, and out-of-home.
Concept and produce video content that makes highly technical products feel compelling.
Think at every scale, from a five-second social clip to a Times Square takeover.
Partner with brand designers to bring identity systems, typography, illustration, and product storytelling to life through motion.
Experiment with new formats, tools, techniques, and emerging technology to push the brand into unexpected places.
Build motion systems and principles that scale across the company.
Work closely with product and product marketing to make launches feel like moments.
Raise the bar for motion craft across everything Baseten puts into the world.
REQUIREMENTS
An exceptional portfolio with a high bar for motion, visual design, and craft.
Strong design fundamentals across typography, composition, pacing, sound, and storytelling, not just animation technique.
Ability to own a project end to end, from rough concept through storyboarding, design, animation, and final production.
Range across brand systems, product storytelling, campaign work, and more experimental ideas.
Judgment about when something needs to be simple and precise and when there's room to make something people haven't seen before.
Strong opinions about motion and brand, and the ability to articulate why something works or doesn't.
Enthusiasm for technical products and the ability to communicate complex ideas without falling back on generic "AI" visuals.
Comfort with a lot of ownership and ambiguity, and a high bar for quality.
You want to help build a brand, not just execute against one.
BENEFITS
Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
Paid parental leave
Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
Company-facilitated 401(k)
Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.
Apply now to embark on a rewarding journey in shaping the future of AI! If you are a motivated individual with a passion for machine learning and a desire to be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you.
At Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable).
Skills Required
- Exceptional portfolio demonstrating strong motion design, visual design, and craft
- Strong fundamentals in typography, composition, pacing, sound, and storytelling
- Ability to own projects end to end, from concept and storyboarding through design, animation, and final production
- Experience spanning brand systems, product storytelling, campaign work, and experimental ideas
- Strong judgment about simplicity, precision, and innovative creative approaches
- Ability to articulate creative opinions and explain why motion and brand work succeeds or fails
- Enthusiasm for technical products and ability to communicate complex ideas without generic AI visuals
- Comfort with ownership, ambiguity, and a high quality standard
- Desire to help build a brand rather than only execute an existing system
Baseten Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Baseten and has not been reviewed or approved by Baseten.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Feedback suggests pay targets the top of market with explicit ranges in postings and a stated aim to provide 90th percentile salaries with equity. Role descriptions emphasize competitive, experience-based pay bands and meaningful stock grants.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as fully covered for medical, dental, and vision for employees and their families, reducing out-of-pocket costs. This comprehensive coverage is consistently highlighted alongside other core benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off policies include unlimited PTO with a minimum expectation of at least four weeks, 16 paid company holidays, and a company-wide winter break. These elements indicate substantial protected time away from work.
Baseten Insights
What We Do
AI’s future won’t be a few massive models built by a handful of labs. It’ll be millions of specialized models embedded into every product, workflow, and experience by the people closest to the customer. The foundation of that future is inference. Inference determines the performance, reliability, latency, and economics of every AI product. For AI to scale globally, it must be as reliable, fast, cost-effective, and high-quality as possible. That’s why Baseten exists. Companies like Abridge, Cursor, Lovable, Notion, and OpenEvidence depend on Baseten to power mission-critical AI workloads in production.
Why Work With Us
We’re an interdisciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and operators building the Inference Cloud our AI future demands. We’re running at a hard systems problem that requires first-principles thinking across the entire stack. The bar is high. We work hard, move fast, and care deeply about quality.
