Motion Designer, Baseten
Brand Team
$190-240k
ML application builder for data scientists
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ML application builder for data scientists
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$190-240k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make machine learning accessible to every organisation.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
As with its mathematical namesake, Baseten focuses on simplifying the complex. The San Francisco startup focuses on simplifying the integration of artificial intelligence into businesses. The tools that Baseten build demolish the need for businesses to hire specialised engineers, utilising the huge strides in artificial intelligence that we’ve seen in the last few years, all without adding workload to businesses.
With serious funding behind it, Baseten has grown its team by three times year-over-year over the last five years. Specifically, it's hired across engineering and marketing, gaining talent from companies such as GitHub, Google, Uber, Amazon, and Palantir. Part of Baseten's focus is on helping companies implement the tools that they have at their disposal, a long-overlooked aspect of machine learning that many businesses have been eager to champion, but are uncertain about how to actually use.
Simplifying the complex world of artificial intelligence for business is no mean feat, but with hundreds of millions in funding behind it and a $5 billion valuation reported in 2026, the company is well on its way to market domination. What's more, the three founders, who met whilst working as engineers at Gumroad, have a lot of experience in navigating this gap in the market.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2026
$1.5bn
SERIES F
Jan 2026
$300m
SERIES E
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Remote-first work environment. The Baseten team is welcome to work from wherever they want; fully remote, in our San Francisco office, or a mix of both. Today, our team (including our founding team) is spread across the United States, Canada, and Armenia. We provide a $1,000 stipend for you to make your home-office comfortable and productive
- Regular in-person team summits. We get together as a team three times a year to plan, workshop, and most importantly, get to know each other better
- Unlimited PTO. We ask that everyone take at least 4 weeks of vacation. And we have a company-wide break between Christmas and New Year's Day
- Full healthcare coverage. Medical, dental and vision insurance for you and your family
- Paid parental leave. 16-weeks fully paid parental leave (adoptive and non-birth parents included) and flexibility with schedules while returning to work
- Company-sponsored 401(k) for you to contribute to
- Learning and development budget. We encourage you to take classes, attend conferences, and invest in your craft and we’ll cover expenses to make it happen
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Tuhin Srivastava
(Co-Founder)Previously Co-Founder at Shape, Machine Learning at Gumroad and Skulpt.
Amir Haghighat
(Co-Founder)Previously Head of Engineering at Gumroad, Software Engineer at Yelp and Engineering Manager at Clover Health.
Phillip Howes
(Co-Founder)Previously Co-Founder at Shape, Machine Learning Engineer at Gumroad and Research Assistant at the University of Sydney.
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