Rive Motion Designer and Animator (Contract-to-Hire)

Rilla; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Rilla is seeking a motion designer to join our Games team in transforming our product into an engaging, game-like experience. You’ll design UI animations, build a vibrant character universe, and bring them to life with bold, innovative motion across mobile and desktop apps.

Work closely with engineering, product, and design to craft animations that delight customers, motivate wins, and reflect our brand energy. Remote-friendly, with NYC in-office conversion possible.

Qualifications

• Summary: 2+ years of motion design, interactive media, game development - or a strong portfolio of personal projects.
• Motion Design: Proficiency in Rive, Lottie, and After Effects, with a strong eye for detail and production-ready animations
• Character Design: AI-powered prompts to bring characters to life, prefer tools over traditional rigging
• Technical Collaboration: Work with engineers on animation implementation and optimization
• Sound and Haptic Integration: Coordinate motion with sound and haptics for cohesive UX
• AI-Augmented Workflow: Comfortable with AI tools to create animations
• Impeccable Taste and Brand Intuition: Translate dynamic brand energy into motion language
• Passion for Games: Understand game design principles and addictive interactions

Responsibilities

• Design UI animations for mobile and desktop apps.
• Build out Rilla's character universe with bold motion and art styles.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and design to implement animations.
• Extend motion language to website and marketing creative.
• Maintain high-velocity, high-autonomy workflow.

Skills

Motion design

Rive

Lottie

After Effects

AI prompting

Collaboration with engineers

Sound & haptic integration

Brand intuition

Game design understanding

Tools

Rive

Lottie

After Effects

Job description

A Foundational Company

Rilla is on a mission to index the offline world.

Today, we’ve built the leading sales coaching software for organizations doing sales offline. We have over 1000 customers, including The Home Depot, KKR, Neighborly, and PulteGroup, using our product to enable AI sales coaching across their organization.

We are backed by Google Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, Crew Capital, and Broom Ventures, along with others.

We’re an in office team in NYC with builders who operate like high speed reinforcement learners. We obsess over our customers, move at a high velocity, are not afraid of failure, and look to maximize our real-world impact.

If you want to build the products and systems for how billions of conversations in the real world are captured and indexed, Rilla is the place to do it.

The Role

At Rilla, you’ll be at the forefront of transforming our product into an experience that feels as intuitive, playful, and rewarding as the best consumer games. You’ll design UI animations, build out our character universe, and bring it all to life with bold, innovative motion and art styles.

As part of our Games team, you’ll collaborate closely with engineering, product, and design to craft animations that don’t just surprise and delight, but actively inspire our customers to hit their goals and celebrate every one of their wins along the way. You are a creative problem solver who will move fast, experiment constantly, and push the boundaries of what a product experience can be to keep it deeply engaging and retentive.

Your primary playground will be our mobile and desktop app. You will also have opportunities to extend Rilla’s motion language into our website, marketing creative, and other key brand moments.

This role is perfect for someone obsessed with game mechanics, passionate about creating joyful, immersive product experiences, and ready to thrive in a high-autonomy, high-expectation environment.

What We Value

• An infinite learner. Someone who is relentless in their curiosity.
• A customer obsessive. Someone who deeply care about delighting customers and solving real pains, not vanity metrics.
• A winning attitude. You thrive with extreme accountability, learning as a team, and both giving and receiving rapid feedback.
• Extreme empathy. Our customers are not tech companies. They live and work in the real world. Empathy is critical to arriving at correct solutions.
• Unafraid of failure. You take risks. You see failure as an opportunity to learn, grow, and be better the next time. In a weird way, you trick your brain into being excited when you fail, because it means you got a new opportunity to learn more.

What We Require

• Summary: 2+ years of experience in motion design, interactive media, game development - or a strong portfolio of personal projects showcasing diverse styles and technical excellence.
• Motion Design: Proficiency in Rive, Lottie, and After Effects, with a strong eye for detail and aptitude in learning new tools and hands-on experience in production-ready animations
• Character Design: Skilled at bringing characters to life through AI-powered prompting and creative iteration, embracing video generation tools over traditional rigging, lighting, and shader pipelines
• Technical Collaboration: Experience working with engineers on animation implementation, understanding technical constraints and optimization
• Sound and Haptic Integration: Knowledge of how motion, sound, and haptic feedback work together to create cohesive user experiences
• AI-Augmented Workflow: You’re well-versed in AI tools and excited to experiment with new software to create compelling animations
• Impeccable Taste and Brand Intuition: Ability to translate Rilla’s dynamic brand energy and art style into a motion design language
• Passion for Games: An understanding of game design principles and player experience, with a sharp eye for what makes interactions addictive, rewarding, and fun using animations that engage and delight

Nice to have (ordered):

• Examples of motion design work similar to Duolingo or other consumer game platforms
• Experience with performance optimization for web and mobile
• General 3D skills like modeling, texturing, rigging, and animating

Compensation

This role is contract, open to remote, with the ability for full-time conversion to be in-person in NYC. Compensation: $60-$100/hr.