Senior Expressive Motion Designer (Remote)

TEKsystems; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 69,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Senior Motion Designer to create engaging motion experiences across digital products. You will craft UI animations, develop scalable motion systems, and collaborate with design and engineering teams to bring interactions to life.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years of motion design, strong storytelling, and familiarity with After Effects, Cinema 4D, and modern prototyping tools. This contract, fully remote role offers flexible collaboration across cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional motion design, animation, or related field.
• Proficient in After Effects, Cinema 4D, or equivalent.
• Strong portfolio with motion systems, UI animation, and storytelling.
• Experience contributing to design systems and collaborating with engineering.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver UI animations, transitions, and interactive assets.
• Create scalable motion systems and guidelines for consistency.
• Define motion behavior with product designers and engineers.
• Prototype and communicate motion concepts with design tools.
• Promote motion design best practices balancing accessibility and performance.
• Present concepts and rationales to stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Support marketing and brand initiatives with motion graphics.
• Help evolve motion design standards across the organization.

Skills

Motion design

Animation

Interaction design

Visual storytelling

Design systems

Collaboration with engineers

Communication skills

Tools

After Effects

Cinema 4D

Origami

Principle

Rive

Lottie

Framer

CSS

JavaScript

Swift

Kotlin

Job description

TEKsystems is seeking a Senior Motion Designer to create engaging motion experiences across digital products. You will craft UI animations, develop scalable motion systems, and collaborate with design and engineering teams to bring interactions to life.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years of motion design, strong storytelling, and familiarity with After Effects, Cinema 4D, and modern prototyping tools. This contract, fully remote role offers flexible collaboration across cross-functional teams.