About the position
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 as a strong of a product thinker as a 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 site.
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-haves
- 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)
- An inclusive and supportive work culture that fosters learning and growth
- Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities
