Lead Motion Designer

Role

Lead Motion Graphic Designer responsible for shaping Uniqode’s brand expression through motion, video, and animation across product, marketing, and social touchpoints. You will collaborate with brand designers, marketers, content creators, and engineers to create high-impact visual narratives and ensure smooth implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and scale the motion design language for broad adoption and consistency.
• Simplify complex interactions through animation to reduce cognitive load and improve UX.
• Build production-ready assets and export-ready animations (web and mobile).
• Art-direct video and campaign content: set creative direction, storyboards, visual tone, and production using vibe coding.
• Guide engineering implementation, run QA, and provide technically informed feedback on limitations.
• Collaborate across marketing, branding, product, and engineering; manage stakeholder relationships and advocate for motion design as a strategic partner.
• Leverage AI tools and modern workflows to accelerate concepting and rapid exploration of animation ideas.
• Create and share motion principles and help peers develop motion literacy for consistent feedback and adoption.
• Proactively find opportunities beyond briefs to solve unarticulated problems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of motion design experience across product, brand, or both.
• Portfolio demonstrating craft and systematic thinking, showing work that shipped and scaled.
• Deep proficiency in After Effects with strong knowledge of Lottie and Rive exports.
• Comfortable with Figma and Premiere Pro.
• Proficiency with video-generating AI tools named in the posting (Sora, Veo, Freepik, Mid-Journey) and general AI-assisted workflows.
• Understanding of how animations are implemented on web and mobile to collaborate effectively with engineers (production code knowledge not required).
• Strong eye for composition, color, typography, and pacing; able to develop visual concepts and direct production end-to-end.
• Ability to articulate the rationale behind motion decisions to non-designers, manage multi-stakeholder feedback, and present work clearly.
• Active interest in upskilling and staying current with motion design, runtimes, interaction design, and real-time graphics.

Nice to Have

• Experience building or contributing to motion design systems.
• Familiarity with creative coding tools.
• Background in a SaaS, product, or technology company.
• Understanding of accessibility considerations for motion (reduced motion preferences, cognitive load, clarity).

Benefits (high level)

• Competitive compensation package.
• Opportunity for equity ownership.
• Flexible work arrangement: both in-office and remote.
• Comprehensive health insurance coverage.
• Dedicated mental health support.