Design Intern, Paid Social

Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.

We’re looking for a Design Intern to join our Creative team this summer and focus on one of Base’s fastest-moving channels: paid social advertising on Meta. You’ll work alongside our designers and marketing team to produce scroll-stopping ad creative, build scalable template systems in Figma, and help us learn what resonates with homeowners across the country.

This isn’t a “shadow someone and take notes” internship. You’ll own real output from week one — designing ads that run in the market, building tools your teammates actually use, and shaping how Base shows up in people’s feeds. If you’re excited about the intersection of brand, performance, and craft, this is the role.

What You'll Do

• Design new paid social ad creative on a weekly cadence for Meta campaigns, working within Base’s brand system while pushing the work forward visually.

• Build and maintain a reusable Figma template system that both the design and marketing teams can use to quickly spin up new ad variations without starting from scratch.

• Conduct competitive ad research — studying what other brands (in energy, DTC, home services, and beyond) are running on Meta — and bring back ideas worth testing.

• Organize and build a library of our top-performing ad creative so the marketing team has a go-to resource for proven templates and formats.

• Collaborate with designers and marketers to iterate on concepts based on performance data and creative instinct.

What You'll Bring

• Strong visual design fundamentals — typography, color, layout, hierarchy — with a portfolio that shows range and taste.

• Working proficiency in Figma, including components, auto layout, and an understanding of how to build templates others can use without breaking.

• Genuine curiosity about what makes an ad work — you pay attention to the ads in your own feed and have opinions about them.

• Ability to move quickly and manage your own time across multiple deliverables without losing quality.

• Comfort giving and receiving direct feedback — our team iterates fast and ego slows things down.

About the Team

The Creative team owns how Base looks, sounds, and feels. Brand campaigns, paid ads, photography, illustration, all of it. We’re five people who like each other a lot and take the work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously. The work is real — we’re building a consumer brand in an industry that’s never had one — and it ships fast. You’ll learn a ton, make things people actually see, and have FUN. Come build with us.

Please note: Base is a startup, which means priorities shift and evolve quickly. Your role may expand or change based on the needs of the business at any given time, so the responsibilities listed may not be exhaustive.

• First Principles Thinking: Question assumptions. Principles > rules.

• Operate at Base Pace: Focus on what matters, act quickly, and learn by doing.

• Give & Get Feedback: Be direct, be humble, and maintain a growth mindset.

• Everyone’s an Owner: Follow through on commitments and own results.

• Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: Drive clarity and make calls with imperfect information.

• Committed to the Mission: Rebuilding the grid is a big challenge. We work hard because we care deeply about the impact we’re creating. We work in-person. It’s not a 9-to-5. We are all-in.

• Fun & Optimism Coexist with Grit: Collaboration and celebration coincide with the intensity of building real things.