Motion Design Jobs
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Principal Product Designer, Energy
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Dow Jones 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Set and lead design strategy across multiple product areas and platforms, working directly with C-suite executives to shape company direction. Establish industry-benchmark design practices and mentor senior design talent to drive long-term business value.
Principal Product Designer - Market Data
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Dow Jones 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Own the design strategy for the Market Data platform across multiple financial brands, including The Wall Street Journal and Barron's. Establish shared design patterns for quotes, charts, and visualizations within the Index Design System to ensure consistency and quality.
Principal, UX Designer
🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Walmart Global Tech 🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
The Principal UX Designer leads the development of user experience strategies through comprehensive research, prototyping, and iterative testing. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to align design solutions with business goals and mentoring team members to maintain high quality standards.
Principal Product Designer, Consumer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Flex 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead the design vision and strategy for a full business vertical, ensuring a cohesive end-to-end consumer experience. Partner with cross-functional teams to execute experiments and evolve the company's design system and AI workflows.
Principal Product Designer, Consumer
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Flex 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Lead the design vision and strategy for a full business vertical, ensuring a cohesive end-to-end consumer experience. Partner with cross-functional teams to execute experiments and evolve the company's design system and AI workflows.
Principal Product Designer, Consumer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Flex 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead the design vision and strategy for a full business vertical, ensuring a cohesive end-to-end consumer experience. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute experiments and evolve the company's design system and AI workflows.
Principal Product Designer, Consumer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Flex 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Lead design for a full business vertical by shaping the vision, strategy, and end-to-end execution of consumer-facing financial products. Align multiple cross-functional teams to ensure a cohesive user experience while setting high quality standards across all design artifacts.
Principal Design Manager
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Aecom 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Lead and integrate large multidisciplinary design teams to ensure cohesive, high-quality technical outcomes across various sectors. Act as the primary client interface to define operational requirements, manage project strategy, and ensure compliance with technical and security standards.
Principal Designer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States
Ebay 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States
Define and lead the long-term vision and strategy for eBay's design system to ensure consistent, high-quality user experiences across all platforms. Partner with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to drive system adoption, improve operational efficiency, and integrate emerging technologies like AI.
Product Designer - MAI Health
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Microsoft 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Principal Product Designer will own a key product area, driving end-to-end design from zero-to-one for AI-powered health applications. They are responsible for collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate business goals into strategy and delivering world-class consumer experiences.
Principal Product Designer, Vertical Solutions
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Uipath 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Own the end-to-end user experience for specific industry verticals and shared AI capabilities, moving from design to working code. Collaborate with PMs and engineering to ship production-ready software that enables human oversight of AI agents.
Principal Associate, Front End Design Systems
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States
Capital One 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States
You will build and maintain reusable component libraries and design system tooling to support product engineering teams. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, accessible, and performant user interfaces.
Principal UX designer - Monopoly GO!
🇪🇸 Seville, Andalusia, Spain
Scopely 🇪🇸 Seville, Andalusia, Spain
The Principal UX Designer will own the end-to-end UX strategy and execution for product areas, driving initiatives from discovery through implementation. They will collaborate with product and development teams to create innovative gameplay experiences and evolve UX frameworks for consistency and scalability.
Principal Product Designer, Vertical Solutions
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Uipath 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
You will own the end-to-end product experience for a specific vertical, designing and building agentic AI workflows that integrate into complex industry environments. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to ship production-ready code while ensuring design consistency across the platform.
Principal Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 United States
Pluralsight 🇺🇸 United States
Define and maintain the architectural direction of the Pando design system to ensure consistency and scalability across the organization. Partner with engineering to build tooling, governance, and accessibility standards while articulating a data-backed roadmap for the system.
About Motion Design careers
Motion is no longer just flair; it is functional feedback in modern interfaces.
Motion designers create the kinetic language that guides users through complex AI workflows and spatial environments. Using tools like After Effects, Rive, and Lottie, they design transitions that reduce cognitive load and bring digital products to life.
Companies like Apple and TikTok invest heavily in motion design to create distinct, high-energy brand experiences that thrive on high-refresh-rate screens and AR/VR platforms.
We feature motion designers, animators, motion graphics artists, and 3D designers working across UI animation, AI-generated content, brand motion, and interactive experiences. Opportunities span tech companies like Apple, Google, and Spotify, AI companies like Midjourney and OpenAI, and streaming platforms like Netflix and TikTok.
Absolutely! Many companies hire remote motion designers, especially AI and tech companies like Discord, Canva, and Framer. Studios and agencies also offer remote freelance work with hybrid flexibility for in-house positions.
After Effects is industry standard, with growing use of Cinema 4D, Blender, Principle, Rive, and Lottie for web animation. AI tools like Midjourney and Runway are increasingly used for concept work. Many roles also require strong graphic design fundamentals. Browse exceptional motion design portfolios for inspiration.
Junior motion designers earn $55k–$75k, mid-level $80k–$120k, and senior/lead positions $130k–$180k+. Companies like Apple, Netflix, and Spotify pay at the top of market. Freelance rates range from $60–$250/hour depending on specialization. See our salary guide for detailed data.
While craftsmanship in After Effects remains vital, the industry has shifted toward functional motion. This means understanding how animation affects user cognitive load and using tools like Rive or Lottie to deliver high-performance, interactive motion for web and mobile apps. Browse Motion Design roles to see these skills in demand.
Don't just show a showreel. Break down your process for specific UI transitions or brand motion systems. Show the "before and after" of a user flow to demonstrate how your motion solved a specific UX problem. Browse our top motion design portfolios for inspiration from designers at Apple and Netflix.