Senior Product Designer

ABOUT BASETEN

Baseten provides the infrastructure, tooling, and expertise needed to bring great AI products to market - fast. Backed by top investors including IVP, Spark Capital, Greylock, and Conviction, we’re trusted by leading AI-driven innovators like Writer, Abridge, Bland, Patreon, Descript, Retool, and Zed to deliver industry-leading performance, security, and reliability for their mission-critical workloads. With our recent $75M Series C funding, we’re growing fast to make AI accessible across all products.

THE ROLE

As a Product Designer at Baseten, you’ll play a critical role in shaping the future of our technical platform. You’ll take full ownership of the design process across our product surface area—from model deployment and query tooling to our visual interface builder. In this role, you’ll blend technical depth with creative problem-solving to design intuitive, powerful tools that serve the needs of developers and ML practitioners.

This is a senior-level position on a small, fast-moving team where designers work closely with engineering, product, and customers to ship product. We’re looking for someone who’s a strong product thinker, as you’ll also help define and implement a scalable design system and play a key role in extending Baseten’s visual brand across both our product and marketing sites.

EXAMPLE INITIATIVES

You'll get to work on these types of projects alongside the Core Product team:

• Chains for multi-component workflows

• Asynchronous inference

• Model APIs for frontier models

• Model training built for production inference

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive the end-to-end product design process: from prototyping and internal reviews to usability testing, detailed specs, and final implementation

• Work across our product suite, including model deployment, data and query interfaces, backend logic composition, and our drag-and-drop builder

• Design for technical users, balancing abstraction with control and flexibility

• Create and maintain a design system that promotes consistency and usability

• Collaborate directly with customers to gather feedback and validate design decisions

• Help evolve and implement Baseten’s visual identity across product and web presence

• Partner closely with engineers to ship high-quality, user-friendly features

• Contribute to team-wide product thinking and execution strategy

REQUIREMENTS

• Experience designing intuitive tools for technical or developer audiences

• Background in building or contributing to design systems

• Strong track record of working cross-functionally with engineering and product teams to ship polished, functional designs

• Ability to prototype and test designs with real users

• Comfortable taking initiative and owning projects end-to-end in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to contribute directly to frontend codebase to polish UI and interactions. Familiarity with frontend technologies (React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

NICE TO HAVE

• Background in developer tools

• Experience working in early-stage or small teams. High ownership environments.

• Knowledge of modern ML infrastructure or enthusiasm for learning in this space

BENEFITS

• Competitive compensation package (Flexible PTO, 401k, covered healthcare premiums).

• This is a unique opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing startup in one of the most exciting engineering fields of our era.

• An inclusive and supportive work culture that fosters learning and growth.

• 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.