Motion Designer

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

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