Motion Designer (Brand Team)

Triwill Group; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive health coverage (medical

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Fertility and family-building stipend

401(k)

Learning opportunities and ML startup露

Job summary

Baseten is seeking a Motion Designer to shape the motion language of a growing brand across product launches, social video, events, and large-scale campaigns. You will build a system, not just individual animations, and partner with brand, product, and leadership to translate complex ideas into clear, distinctive visuals.

You will own end-to-end motion work, craft high-quality assets, and push the boundaries of what motion can do in a fast-moving AI-focused product environment.

Qualifications

• A proven portfolio demonstrating high-quality motion, visual design, and craft.
• Strong fundamentals in typography, composition, pacing, sound, and storytelling.
• Ability to own projects end-to-end from concept to final production.
• Experience across brand systems, product storytelling, and campaigns.
• Judgment on when to keep things simple or push for bold, unique ideas.
• Clear, reasoned opinions about motion and brand work.
• Comfort communicating complex product ideas without cliché AI visuals.
• Willingness to take ownership in a fast-changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Baseten's motion language.
• Create high-craft motion across product launches, social, campaigns, web, events, and OOH.
• Concept and produce video content that makes technical products compelling.
• Think at all scales, from five-second clips to large-scale campaigns.
• Collaborate with brand designers to bring identity systems to life through motion.
• Experiment with new formats, tools, and emerging tech to push the brand.
• Build motion systems and principles that scale company-wide.
• Work with product and product marketing to make launches feel like moments.
• Raise the bar for motion across Baseten's output.

Skills

Motion design

Brand design

Typography

Storytelling

Concept development

Job description

Description: 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 https://www.baseten.co/blog/announcing-our-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.

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).