Staff Motion Designer

Harvey; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 157,000 - 235,600; Full time

Job summary

Harvey is seeking a Staff Motion Designer in San Francisco who will define the motion design language across the brand and product storytelling. The ideal candidate possesses a strong portfolio showcasing their motion work and deep fluency in motion design tools.

The role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional teams to create engaging motion narratives, aiming to simplify complex AI ideas. The compensation ranges from $157,000 to $235,600, reflecting the seniority of this position.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio of motion work demonstrating storytelling, art direction, and animation.
• Experience in high-growth SaaS or product-led technology environments.
• Ability to visually simplify complex concepts with strong pacing and narration.

Responsibilities

• Own the motion design language for brand across various media.
• Create storyboards, animatics, and final motion assets.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate product context into motion narratives.
• Develop reusable motion systems for scalable output.

Skills

Storytelling

Art direction

Animation craft

Visual systems thinking

Cross-functional communication

Tools

After Effects

Figma

Cinema 4D

Lottie

Rive

Job description

Role Overview

Harvey is hiring a Staff Motion Designer in San Francisco 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 should sit within Brand and Design, reporting into Shawn Farsai, whose current scope includes Brand Marketing and Creative leadership in San Francisco. 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

• Own 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, styleframes, 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

• 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.
• Experience building motion for brand, product, marketing, launch, or education contexts, ideally in a product‑led technology company or high‑growth SaaS environment.
• 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.
• A staff‑level ownership mindset: able to bring ideas, shape systems, operate through ambiguity, give and receive feedback well, and still roll up sleeves when the team needs execution support.

Compensation

$157,000‑$235,600

Equal‑Opportunity Employer

Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing [e-mail].