Brand Motion Designer - AI-Driven Visual System Lead

BrainCo; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Brain Co. is seeking a motion designer to shape our visual language as we expand a new brand identity.

You’ll define motion vocabulary for marketing, product demos, and events, collaborating with brand and product teams to ensure a cohesive look across all touchpoints. This authorship role invites hands-on creation—animations, films, and AI-assisted workflows—while guiding tooling decisions and establishing expressive principles.

Qualifications

• Brand designer who animates; typography and systems thinking form your foundation.
• Fluent in After Effects and Rive; 3D experience with Cinema 4D/Blender is a plus.
• Able to defend design decisions in live critiques and articulate brand rationale.
• Experienced owning the motion dimension of a brand, in‑house or agency.
• Genuinely curious about AI generation tools and where they add value.
• Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate.

Responsibilities

• Define and own Brain Co.’s motion vocabulary across marketing, product demos, social, events, and film.
• Extend the new brand identity into time-based media, from launch videos to conference visuals
• Partner with product design to establish motion principles in our product: easing, loading states, transitions, and micro-interactions
• Build high-impact demos and films that help Brain Co. win new business with governments, healthcare systems, and critical industries
• Establish our framework for AI-assisted motion production: tool selection, workflows, and a visual system designed to hold up under AI generation
• Produce finished work yourself. This is a hands-on role, and the reel you build here will be yours

Skills

After Effects

Rive

Cinema 4D

Blender

Typography

Systems thinking

Tools

Cinema 4D

Blender

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Brain Co. is seeking a motion designer to shape our visual language as we expand a new brand identity.

You’ll define motion vocabulary for marketing, product demos, and events, collaborating with brand and product teams to ensure a cohesive look across all touchpoints. This authorship role invites hands-on creation—animations, films, and AI-assisted workflows—while guiding tooling decisions and establishing expressive principles.