Senior Motion Designer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Motion Designer

Description

You’ll help define the brand’s motion language and motion identity, then bring it to life across campaigns, product surfaces, and launch moments. This is a hands-on role with ownership from first concept through final delivery, including building reusable, AI-assisted motion toolkits that other teams can apply without you.

Responsibilities

• Define and document the brand motion language (timing, easing, transitions, logo animation, typography in motion, graphic behaviors)

• Create workflows and toolkits that turn recurring motion work into repeatable, AI-assisted templates and generators

• Concept and produce motion end to end across launch films, product videos, social, paid, web, and out-of-home

• Partner with product designers and engineers to integrate brand motion into product interactions, transitions, onboarding, and launch moments

• Provide creative direction to agencies, animators, and freelancers via clear briefs and candid feedback

• Collaborate at speed across marketing, product, engineering, and leadership; clearly present thinking to senior stakeholders

Requirements

• 6+ years of motion design experience

• Professional experience with After Effects

• Professional experience with at least one 3D tool (Cinema 4D or Blender)

• Reel of shipped motion design work

• Onsite role: able to work in person at the San Francisco or New York office

Benefits

• Annual salary range: $172,000–$250,000 USD (level and base salary determined case-by-case)

• Equity

• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Short- and long-term disability insurance

• Life insurance

• Various discounts and perks