Senior Motion Designer

Harvey; New York (NY); On-site; USD 136,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey seeks a Senior Motion Designer in New York to shape how motion communicates our AI-driven brand story across product launches, web surfaces, and education assets.

You will craft concepts, storyboards, and final motion assets, collaborating with Brand, PMM, Product Design, and Creative Ops to translate strategy into sticky, scalable motion narratives.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio of motion work across brand, product, and education contexts.
• Ability to simplify complex AI/product concepts visually.
• Deep fluency with After Effects, Figma, Cinema 4D, Lottie or similar tools.
• Excellent cross-functional communication with PMM, Marketing, and design.
• Experience in product-led tech or high-growth SaaS preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define motion language for Harvey’s brand across launch videos and digital experiences.
• Create concepts, storyboards, style frames, animatics, and final assets.
• Collaborate with Brand, PMM, Product Design, and Creative Ops to translate positioning into motion.
• Develop reusable motion systems and templates to scale output.
• Prioritize work across hero moments, quick-turn edits, and long-term brand-system investments.
• Raise craft bar while handling production work in a fast-moving team.

Skills

Motion design

Storytelling

Art direction

Portfolio review

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

After Effects

Figma

Cinema 4D

Lottie

Rive

Job description

Why Harvey

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.

Why Harvey

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.

Role Overview

Harvey is hiring a Senior Motion Designer to define how motion shows up across Harvey’s brand, product storytelling, launch moments, web experiences, customer education, and executive-facing creative work. The role will sit within Brand and Design, reporting into our Head of Motion. This is a new senior IC role intended to raise the motion craft bar while still operating with the low-ego, hands-on generalist posture expected of Harvey’s senior brand hires. The role should build on existing motion and brand hiring standards, including deep portfolio review, visible process, cross-functional collaboration with PMM and Marketing, and practical assessment of prioritization under ambiguity. The person in this role will help Harvey turn complex AI product ideas into clear, memorable, and reusable motion systems that can scale across product launches, web surfaces, campaign assets, Academy or education assets, events, and internal/external storytelling.

What You’ll Do

Support the motion design language for Harvey’s brand across launch videos, product explainers, web and campaign moments, event assets, social cuts, sales enablement, and other high-leverage creative surfaces.

Create motion concepts, storyboards, style-frames, animatics, and final motion assets that make complex AI workflows feel clear, premium, and unmistakably Harvey.

Partner closely with Brand, Product Marketing, Product Design, Creative Operations, and other GTM stakeholders to translate positioning, product context, and user needs into motion narratives that can ship quickly.

Develop reusable motion systems, templates, animation principles, and production workflows so Harvey can scale motion output without reinventing the wheel on every request.

Use judgment to scope work appropriately across polished hero moments, scrappy launch needs, quick-turnaround edits, and longer-term brand-system investments.

Raise the craft bar for motion while remaining willing to do the unglamorous but important production work required in a fast-moving creative team.

What You Have

Experience building motion for brand, product, marketing, launch, or education contexts, ideally in a product-led technology company or high-growth SaaS environment.

A strong portfolio of motion work that demonstrates storytelling, art direction, animation craft, visual systems thinking, and the ability to explain the process behind finished work.

Deep fluency in motion design tools and workflows such as After Effects, Figma, Cinema 4D, Lottie, Rive, code-adjacent motion, or comparable production tools.

A demonstrated ability to simplify complex concepts visually without overloading the viewer, including strong instincts for pacing, sequencing, hierarchy, narration, and accessibility.

Strong cross-functional communication skills, including the ability to clarify a brief, align with PMM or Marketing goals, handle competing feedback, and prioritize multiple stakeholder requests.

Compensation

$136,000 - $187,000

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