Motion Designer (UX/Interface)

Bjak; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Bjak is seeking a Motion Designer in New York to create animations for AI interfaces that help users understand system interactions. You will work on designing motion that communicates system states and reduces confusion.

The ideal candidate has a strong portfolio in motion design, proficiency in tools like After Effects, and experience collaborating closely with product designers and engineers.

Qualifications

• Experience in motion design for digital products, with a portfolio showing interface animation.
• Proficiency in After Effects, Lottie, Rive, or equivalent tools.
• Understanding of how motion communicates system state, feedback, progress, and user guidance.

Responsibilities

• Design motion and animation for AI product interfaces, including loading states, streaming responses.
• Create motion that helps users understand what the AI is doing without requiring long explanations.
• Develop animation patterns for uncertainty, thinking states, waiting states, and error handling.

Skills

Motion design for digital products

Proficiency in After Effects

Understanding of motion communication

Designing animation within technical constraints

Collaborating with product designers

Awareness of accessibility considerations

Curiosity about AI behavior communication

Tools

After Effects

Lottie

Rive

Job description

Company

A1 is building a proactive AI smart assistant for everyday users to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows.

Our product focuses on achieving high reliability for long-running workflows, persistent context, and real-world task completion. The system must handle multi-step reasoning, interact with external tools, and remain reliable despite non-deterministic model behavior.

Role

You will design motion and animation for AI interfaces. In AI-driven products, motion is not decoration - it is how users understand system state, loading behavior, uncertainty, progress, and transitions between AI actions.

This role applies HCI thinking to motion design: helping users understand what the system is doing, whether it needs attention, and what is happening next.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design motion and animation for AI product interfaces, including loading states, streaming responses, task progress, and system transitions.

• Create motion that helps users understand what the AI is doing without requiring them to read long explanations.

• Develop animation patterns for uncertainty, thinking states, waiting states, failure, recovery, and asynchronous AI processes.

• Work with product and UX designers to define how motion supports feedback, confidence cues, and error states.

• Build motion specs and prototypes that engineers can implement accurately.

• Define and maintain motion design principles and a reusable animation library for AI surfaces.

• Ensure motion performance is appropriate for real-time and latency-sensitive AI interactions.

• Use motion to reduce confusion, not add decoration.

What You Will Need

• Experience in motion design for digital products, with a portfolio showing interface animation.

• Proficiency in After Effects, Lottie, Rive, or equivalent tools.

• Understanding of how motion communicates system state, feedback, progress, and user guidance.

• Ability to design animation that works within technical constraints of mobile and web.

• Experience working closely with product designers and engineers.

• Awareness of accessibility and performance considerations for animation.

• Good judgment on when motion helps users and when it creates noise.

• Curiosity about how motion can communicate AI behavior, trust signals, and uncertainty.