Senior Motion Designer

Role Summary

Location: Remote.

The role You'll turn graphics and illustration into motion. Explainers, brand videos, launch videos, social, UI animation. Real briefs, never spec.

Responsibilities

• Design and animate across launch videos, commercials, product explainers, social content, and brand campaigns
• Translate creative direction and storyboards into motion that nails the intended tone, pacing, and feel
• Export production-ready Lottie files and UI animations for handoff
• Work in tight cycles, first WIP fast, refine continuously
• Iterate quickly on feedback from creative leads and clients without losing the craft
• Work closely with producers, editors, designers, art directors, and illustrators

Requirements

• A reel that shows timing, easing, and restraint
• Strong After Effects (expressions, rigging, clean comp management)
• Production experience exporting Lottie and UI animations
• The ability and appetite to work with AI video and image generation tools
• Comfortable in Figma, able to bring designs from Figma into After Effects
• You take feedback fast and integrate it without friction

Nice to have

• Rive for product and UI motion
• Cavalry for procedural and generative motion
• Light 3D (C4D or Blender) for hybrid pieces
• Not for you if
• You need a locked brief and a long runway per task
• You take notes personally