Motion Designer

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible (unlimited) paid time off

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Life insurance and disability benefits

Retirement plan

Parental leave

Fertility and family-building benefits

Lunch and snacks

Discretionary benefit stipend

Free alphorn lessons

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in San Francisco is seeking a Motion Designer to define how our brand comes to life through movement. You will collaborate with brand designers, marketers, product teams, and external partners to translate complex AI concepts into compelling visual narratives.

You’ll help build the motion practice from the ground up, establishing frameworks that ensure consistency across campaigns, product launches, and customer touchpoints.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of motion design experience with a portfolio showing exceptional craft, storytelling, and scalable design systems.
• Experience supporting high-growth technology, SaaS, AI, B2B, or consumer brands is preferred.
• Expert knowledge of animation principles, timing, typography, and motion systems; ability to create craft that’s visually compelling and strategic.
• Experience building motion design frameworks, reusable assets, and scalable standards for cross-team consistency.

Responsibilities

• Develop motion systems, principles, and animation frameworks to create consistency across the brand.
• Build scalable motion templates, guidelines, and documentation for cross-team use.
• Collaborate with brand design, marketing, product, and leadership to elevate storytelling through animation.
• Lead exploration for brand campaigns and launches, communicating the company’s vision through motion.
• Establish best practices for motion across digital, experiential, social, and product touchpoints.
• Mentor teammates on motion craft, workflows, and execution.
• Explore AI-enabled creative possibilities while maintaining high quality and taste.
• Help shape the culture, systems, and visual language that define the brand.

Skills

After Effects

Premiere

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Motion design

Typography

Animation principles

Storytelling

Brand systems

Tools

Cinema 4D

Rive

Lottie

AI-powered tools

Job description

About usAt the company, we’re building a platform to enable every company in the world to build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We partner with industry leaders such SoftBank, Uber, Rivian, CLEAR, and Sutter Health. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.

We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.

Our co-founders are Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding the company, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.

We’re looking for a Motion Designer to join the company’s Creative Studio and help define how our brand comes to life through movement. This role is ideal for someone who combines exceptional craft with systems thinking—someone who can create standout motion work while establishing the patterns, principles, and frameworks that make the company recognizable across every touchpoint.

As a member of the company’s design team, you’ll partner closely with brand designers, marketers, product teams, and external creative partners to bring stories, products, and experiences to life through animation. You’ll work across product launches, marketing campaigns, customer stories, events, social content, and emerging brand initiatives, helping translate complex AI concepts into compelling visual narratives.

This is an opportunity to help build the company’s motion practice from the ground up and shape how customers, partners, and the broader industry experience our brand.

What you’ll do

• Develop motion systems, principles, and animation frameworks that create consistency and recognition across the the company brand.
• Build scalable motion templates, guidelines, and documentation that empower teams to create on-brand work efficiently.
• Partner closely with brand design, marketing, product, and leadership teams to elevate storytelling through animation and motion.
• Bring creative, from-the-ground-up thinking to brand campaigns and launches, exploring new ways to communicate the company’s vision and technology.
• Help establish best practices for motion across digital, experiential, social, and product touchpoints.
• Mentor teammates and provide guidance on motion design craft, workflows, and execution.
• Explore new creative possibilities enabled by AI while maintaining a high bar for quality, taste, and craftsmanship.
• As a core member of the company’s design team, you will help shape the culture, systems, and visual language that define our brand.

What you’ll bring

Proven Experience: 8+ years of motion design experience with a portfolio that demonstrates exceptional craft, strong storytelling, and the ability to build scalable design systems. Experience supporting high-growth technology, SaaS, AI, B2B, or consumer brands is preferred.

• Motion Craft Excellence: Deep expertise in animation principles, timing, visual storytelling, typography, and motion systems. Ability to create work that is both visually compelling and strategically effective.
• Systems Thinking: Experience building motion design frameworks, reusable assets, and scalable standards that enable consistency across teams and channels.
• Great Collaboration: Strong ability to communicate creative ideas and partner effectively with designers, marketers, product teams, engineers, executives, and external collaborators.
• Excellent Communication: Ability to clearly articulate design rationale, creative direction, and motion principles to diverse stakeholders.
• Builder Mindset: Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys defining new processes, systems, and creative opportunities from scratch.
• Creative Proficiency: Expert knowledge of After Effects, Premiere, Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite. Experience with Cinema 4D, Rive, Lottie, AI-powered creative tools, or emerging motion workflows is a plus.

Our values

• Trust: We build trust with our customers with our accountability, empathy, quality, and responsiveness. We build trust in AI by making it more accessible, safe, and useful. We build trust with each other by showing up for each other professionally and personally, creating an environment that enables all of us to do our best work.
• Customer Obsession: We deeply understand our customers’ business goals and relentlessly focus on driving outcomes, not just technical milestones. Everyone at the company knows and spends time with our customers. When our customer is having an issue, we drop everything and fix it.
• Craftsmanship: We get the details right, from the words on the page to the system architecture. We have good taste. When we notice something isn’t right, we take the time to fix it. We are proud of the products we produce. We continuously self-reflect to continuously self-improve.
• Intensity: We know we don’t have the luxury of patience. We play to win. We care about our product being the best, and when it isn’t, we fix it. When we fail, we talk about it openly and without blame so we succeed the next time.
• Family: We know that balance and intensity are compatible, and we model it in our actions and processes. We are the best technology company for parents. We support and respect each other and celebrate each other’s personal and professional achievements.

What we offer

We want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to full-time employees:

• Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
• Parental leave
• Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
• Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized
• Discretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
• Free alphorn lessons

These benefits are further detailed in the company's policies, may vary by region, and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans. Eligible full-time employees can participate in the company's equity plans subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.

Be you, with usWe're working to bring the transformative power of AI to every organization in the world. To do so, it is important to us that the diversity of our employees represents the diversity of our customers. We believe that our work and culture are better when we encourage, support, and respect different skills and experiences represented within our team. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. We strive to evaluate all applicants consistently without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.