After graduating from the Juilliard School, he began professionally acting in New York City, playing in the main cast of the Netflix television sitcom Disjointed (2017–2018).

Moten began professionally acting in New York City, where he graduated from the Juilliard School in 2011.

[5] In 2012, he appeared in a Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire and was featured in a pilot for an HBO miniseries Criminal Justice.

[9][10] In 2022, Moten went on to star as Ham in Mark Wahlberg's Father Stu,[11][12][13][14] as well as Knowls in the historical action film Emancipation.

[15][16][17] In 2024, Moten starred in Amazon Prime Video's post-apocalyptic television series Fallout as Maximus, a Brotherhood of Steel squire.