Motion Design Jobs

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General Manager – Optical Design Engineering (ODE)

🇩🇪 Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

The General Manager will have full P&L ownership and end-to-end responsibility for the strategy, growth, and execution of the Optical Design Engineering business unit. They will lead a global organization to drive recurring revenue, operational efficiency, and portfolio innovation across the DES division.

Onsite$207,360 - $379,200Full-timeSenior
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Staff Product Designer

🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America

You will lead design initiatives for core products and modernize the car ownership experience through elegant, frictionless interfaces. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to evolve the design system and apply AI to create more personal user experiences.

$190,000 - $230,000Full-timeSenior
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Principal UX Designer

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

The Principal UX Designer will own and drive the end-to-end UX strategy for key infrastructure products, setting standards for design quality and innovation. This role involves partnering with product managers and engineers to define product direction while leading and mentoring other designers.

Hybrid$120,000 - $150,000Full-timeSenior
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Lead UX Product Designer - Guest UX

🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

The Lead UX Designer will define experience strategy, drive complex initiatives forward, and ensure solutions benefit both the guest and the business by shaping AI-powered campaign workflows for partners and team members. Responsibilities include creating UX patterns, defining UX north stars, leading end-to-end UX for ad-tech features, and translating complex mechanics into understandable visualizations.

Hybrid$128,000 - $231,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer – My Account (Self-Serve & Transactional Experience)

🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

The Senior Product Designer will own and lead the end-to-end product design for the My Account experience, covering discovery through continuous optimization of transactional and self-service journeys. This includes shaping flows like orders, invoices, and account management to boost adoption and reduce customer support dependency.

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Lead Product Designer, Growth

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America

The Lead Product Designer, Growth will own the end-to-end design and set the design direction for Rakuten’s core member experience across Web, iOS, and Android, from initial problem framing through to shipped product. This role involves defining foundational UX patterns, driving research, and shaping squad-level vision through compelling presentations.

Hybrid$132,082.5 - $226,820Full-timeSenior
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Senior Graphic Designer - Gateway

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the creation of visually compelling designs across multiple platforms, working closely with the Public Affairs team to produce static and motion graphics for public-facing communication. Accountabilities include designing various visual content, creating motion graphics, translating complex data into engaging narratives, and leading creative concepting sessions.

Onsite$100,000 - $180,000Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer III - Design Systems (Hybrid, CAN)

🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The role involves serving as a consistency champion for the evolving design system, partnering with leadership, designers, and engineers to scale components, patterns, and guidelines from Figma. Responsibilities include driving discovery, evangelizing the design system, communicating design rationale, and partnering with engineers to ensure adherence to coding standards like accessibility.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Digital Product Designer

🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

The role involves defining, executing, and delivering against project goals for diverse financial products, working closely with leadership and cross-functional partners to articulate future-state experiences. Responsibilities also include translating business inputs and user insights into actionable design solutions and owning the delivery of design tasks.

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Design Engineering Manager

🇺🇸 Plainville, CT 06062, United States of America

This leadership role focuses on owning and improving the engineering execution system for efficient, high-quality delivery across sustaining engineering, change management, and product development work streams globally. Key functions include leading engineering operations, overseeing CAD/PDM administration, managing configuration, and providing design engineering oversight to ensure predictable workflow from request through release.

Onsite$114,730 - $213,070Full-timeSenior
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Design Engineering Technical Lead

🇺🇸 Fresno, California, United States of America

The role involves coordinating multidisciplinary design efforts across complex transportation and transit projects, providing technical input, and ensuring compliance with codes and standards. Responsibilities also include preparing and reviewing engineering documentation, managing design interfaces, and supporting quality control procedures.

Onsite$120,000 - $165,000Full-timeSenior
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Design Engineering Technical Lead

🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America

The role involves coordinating multidisciplinary design efforts across large, complex transportation and transit projects, providing technical input and oversight to ensure compliance with codes and standards. Responsibilities also include preparing, reviewing, and coordinating engineering documentation and managing design interfaces across various contracts and delivery packages.

Onsite$120,000 - $165,000Full-timeSenior
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Design Engineering Technical Lead

🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America

These roles involve coordinating multidisciplinary design efforts across large, complex transportation and transit projects, providing technical input, and ensuring compliance with codes and standards. Responsibilities also include preparing, reviewing, and coordinating engineering documentation and managing design interfaces across various contracts and delivery packages.

Onsite$120,000 - $165,000Full-timeSenior
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Design Engineering Technical Lead

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America

This role involves coordinating multidisciplinary design efforts across large, complex transportation and transit projects, providing technical input and oversight to ensure compliance with codes and standards. Responsibilities also include preparing, reviewing, and coordinating engineering documentation and managing design interfaces across multiple contracts and delivery packages.

Onsite$120,000 - $165,000Full-timeSenior
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Lead Product Designer, AI & Agentic Workflows

🇺🇸 United States of America

The Lead Designer will define AI-native features and platform-level systems for agentic workflows, designing interactions where users and agents collaborate on a visual canvas to achieve structured outcomes. Responsibilities include using code for exploration, rapid prototyping with AI-native tools, and creating interaction models for human and multi-agent collaboration.

Hybrid$150,000 - $188,000Full-timeSenior
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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.