Motion Designer

Tonik; Poznań; Hybrid; PLN 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Tonik, a digital design studio, seeks an independent Motion Designer for long-term B2B cooperation. You organize your own time and work remotely within EU time zones, delivering across animation, logos and case studies, with creative freedom and client-facing responsibilities.

You’ll lead projects from concept to shipped results, collaborate with brand designers, and present ideas to clients. Fluency in English (C1) is expected, and AI-assisted tools are valued.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of animation principles and motion design.
• Excellent easing and timing across animations.
• Expertise with After Effects and Lottie; familiarity with Spline, Rive, Cavalry.
• Experience in 3D (static + animated).
• Ability to integrate animations with frontend frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Gather information and materials about projects.
• Plan the design process for projects.
• Work on storyboards and sketches with clients to save time.
• Create animations — logos, illustrations, case studies and launch videos.
• Explain ideas in an engaging, entertaining, and clear way with animation.
• Be the point of contact between Tonik and clients.
• Present and get approval for ideas.
• Educate clients on motion design.
• Update clients about progress.
• Collaborate with brand designers from the start.
• Help web designers and no-code developers implement ideas.
• Join internal project meetings and share knowledge.

Skills

Animation principles

Motion design

After Effects

Lottie

Spline

Rive

Cavalry

3D animation

Frontend animation

English proficiency

Figma

Tools

AE and Lottie with Spline, Rive, Cavalry

Job description

We're a well-knit digital design studio working with products, brands and (ai-)code. Top founders come to us because we get early-stage like no one else. We help them define, build and scale future unicorns. That means we think beyond eye-candy (though a criminally good shader still hits). Fair warning: this is not a place to coast. The pace is set by founders who move fast, and we like it that way.

We're looking for an independent Motion Designer for a long-term B2B cooperation. You organise your own time and place of work and deliver the agreed results your way. Nobody here is breathing down your neck about what, when or how you do it. See a better route to the goal? Take it and take the cred.

The cooperation is non-exclusive: you're free to work with other clients, as long as it doesn't create an actual conflict of interest or breach confidentiality. Each project (scope, timeline, remuneration) is agreed separately, and taking one on is always your call.

Sounds like your kind of collaboration?

team size

90+

no.

Brand designers

20

LOCATION

Remote with Poznań HQ (in you want to visit)

Cooperation hours

Flexible (within EU timezone)

Clients

Early-stage startups

Communication

Polish internally, English with clients

What You’ll Do

• Gathering information and materials about your projects
• Planning the design process in your projects
• Working on storyboards and sketches with your clients to save time
• Creating all the animations — from small moving elements through animated logos, product illustrations for landing pages to beautiful case studies and launch videos
• Explaining complex ideas in a understandable / entertaining / interesting / badass / elegant / fashion with animation
• Being the point of contact between tonik and your clients
• Presenting and getting a 'yes!' to your ideas
• Educating your clients on motion design
• Updating your clients about the progress
• Collaborating with brand designers from the very start
• Helping web designers and no-code developers implement your ideas into a working thing
• Joining internal project meetings, sharing knowledge and feedback
• Having an opinion about what's happening at tonik

It’s a match if you’re like this

• Know a ton about animation principles and motion design
• Strong visual muscles to make the smoothest easings
• Know AE and Lottie format inside-out, and have a strong interest in web-oriented software such as Spline, Rive, Cavalry
• Experience in 3D (static + animation)
• Familiar with front-end frameworks around implementing animations
• Experience with generating videos with various AI tools
• Use AI to improve and speed up your work
• Know any extra soft for quick & dirty animations
• Comprehend basics of Figma
• Fluent in English at C1 level (think Netflix with no subtitles on)
• Okay with weekly evening calls with American clients (ET/PT)
• In for teamwork and occasional mentorship
• Organize your work with little or no help
• Vibe compatible with a high-performance, low-ego and drama-free culture

What the cooperation includes

• A world-class bench around you: high-agency, senior, low-ego. We set the bar high, raise it often, and pull you up with it
• Founders from the Valley's top rosters: a16z Speedrun, YC, HF0 and more. We've partnered with 200+ of them
• AI-native delivery, not pixel pushing. The studio runs on it, and how you use it can shape how we all do
• A direct line to founders. Strong ideas go from concept to shipped in days, the decision loop is that short
• Trips to SF when the project calls for it. You get the epicenter up close
• Top-tier AI tooling (whatever's winning right now) and every access the project needs
• EU-timezone cooperation, overlap only where the project genuinely needs it
• Optional invites to dinners, retreats and nights out. Come if you feel like it

The process

1. You first
and tell us about yourself. Don't forget to attach your portfolio.

2. Vibe check
Let's jump on a call, so we can both figure out whether it's a fit.

3. Show off
You’ll get a task so we can see your magic in practice.

4. Seal the deal
One last call to talk details (e.g. the scope and model of cooperation, remuneration, expected availability) and that's it!

Process coordinators

Martyna Anessi

Head of People

Head of Branding

Motion Designer

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