Senior Motion Designer

Location: Remote.

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

What you’ll do

• 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

What we’re looking for

• 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

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