Senior Motion Designer

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🏄 California, New York – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $90 - $110 / hour

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Academy

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1 - 10 employees

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🤝 B2B

Recruitment • Design • B2B

Academy is a UX staffing and recruiting agency that provides flexible UX talent solutions for companies. Offering services in contractor placement, full-time employment, and fully managed studio services, Academy helps organizations scale their UX teams with pre-vetted talent. With a pool of over 5000 UX professionals, Academy focuses on finding the right fit for roles in product design, UX research, product management, UI design, and more. Academy is committed to mentoring and developing UX talent, ensuring clients receive high-quality professionals to meet their design needs.

📋 Description

• Define and evolve Superhuman’s motion design language — spanning UI micro-interactions, onboarding flows, feature introductions, loading states, and brand moments across product and marketing. • Design, prototype, and deliver high-fidelity micro-interactions and transitions that communicate state, guide attention, and make our product feel alive. • Actively use AI-powered motion tools — including generative video, creative AI and LLM-assisted workflows as a core part of how you concept, iterate, and produce. • Build and maintain motion guidelines, principles, and a shared library of reusable animation components that help other designers and engineers implement motion consistently. • Partner with engineering to ensure animations are implemented accurately and performantly in production, with a clear understanding of Lottie, CSS animations, and React-based animation libraries. • Explore speculative motion concepts that push forward what Superhuman’s product could feel like — using prototypes to communicate ideas before they’re built. • Mentor other designers on motion craft and help build a culture where animation is thoughtfully and consistently applied.

🎯 Requirements

• Have 6+ years of motion design experience and an outstanding portfolio that demonstrates genuine mastery in UI/product animation and brand storytelling. • Are expert-level in After Effects and have real experience with at least two prototyping/motion tools: Rive, Principle, Framer, Runway or Weave. • Have strong Figma fluency, including Figma Motion, Smart Animate, and interactive component prototyping, and are comfortable navigating complex file structures. • Understand how animations are implemented in code (Lottie, CSS, React Spring) and can work closely with engineers to close the gap between design intent and production reality. • Have exceptional taste in timing, rhythm, easing, and the emotional quality of motion. You feel the difference between a great animation and a good one. • Communicate your decisions with clarity and confidence. You can walk a non-designer through why a transition works and is on brand, or why it isn’t. • Nice to Have: • 3D motion or node-based motion experience in Cinema 4D, Blender, Spline, or Houdini. • Background in interaction design or UX prototyping in addition to motion. • Experience building AI-assisted motion workflows or custom pipelines.