Motion Designer (Brand Team)
Hybrid (San Francisco), Hybrid (Remote), Hybrid (New York)$190k - $240kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Exceptional Motion Designer to define and build Baseten's motion language and system, collaborating across brand, product, marketing, and leadership to create high-craft motion work for product launches, social, campaigns, events, and experientialbranding.
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.
Qualifications
- 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.
Skills
Required:Portfolio showing motion and craftDesign fundamentalsEnd-to-end project ownershipBrand systems and product storytellingJudgment and strategic thinking in motionCommunication of motion and brand rationaleTechnical product storytellingOwnership under ambiguityBrand-building mindset
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
- (U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
- Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (offices closed Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day)
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
- (U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k)
- Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering learning and networking opportunities
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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