Motion Design Jobs
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Principal UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria)
Human Intelligence Remote (🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria)
The role involves leading the design strategy, system development, flows, UI, and motion for over 15 product modules, creating a tokenized Figma system that maps to FlutterFlow themes for rapid cloning. Responsibilities also include shipping micro-interactions, designing ethical gamification loops, and ensuring WCAG 2.2 compliance through prototyping and testing.
Principal UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
The role involves understanding customer behaviors, motivations, and needs to drive product strategy through rigorous, multi-stage research programs executed to the highest standards. Responsibilities also include guiding teams in creative new directions, identifying new opportunities, and leading research on highly visible or complex products.
Principal Product Designer, GenStudio
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
This role involves shaping the next generation of creative and marketing experiences powered by generative AI across Adobe GenStudio and Firefly Enterprise, defining and elevating the design vision for products that transform enterprise content creation and collaboration at scale. The designer will guide cohesive design narratives, work closely with cross-functional teams, and ensure intuitive, powerful, and connected user experiences through prototyping and iteration.
Principal UX Designer, AWS Applied AI Solutions
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
The Principal UX Designer will own the UX vision and strategy across multiple services, setting the bar for AI-native design by translating emerging AI capabilities into coherent, human-centered experiences that build trust. Responsibilities also include influencing product and business direction, defining cross-service design standards, and mentoring other designers.
Principal Product Designer, AI
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Warner Bros. Discovery 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
This role involves developing and steering a bold user experience vision for evolving consumer experiences through delightful AI features, ranging from content discovery to personalization. Responsibilities include collaborating with Product on a roadmap, identifying user needs, producing cutting-edge user experiences, and guiding the overall UX strategy for consumer AI using research and analytics.
Principal Product Designer, Innovation & Growth
🇫🇷 65400 Uz, France
Yahoo 🇫🇷 65400 Uz, France
The role involves leading the end-to-end product design of AI-led consumer experiences, delivering intuitive, AI-powered solutions that align with user needs and business goals. Responsibilities also include shaping design direction for AI initiatives upstream with leadership and mentoring other designers on AI-augmented design processes.
Principal Product Designer
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Syfe 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
The Principal Product Designer will lead design strategy for critical company initiatives by partnering with executives and senior leaders across Product, Engineering, and Business. They will define and drive the vision for complex, cross-functional product areas while establishing design frameworks and best practices to elevate quality.
Product Designer (Staff / Principal Level)
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Anima Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
The role involves leading end-to-end design for multiple new opportunities, shaping the product roadmap, and building out the design standards and tools for the future.
Principal Product Designer, Contract
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Pacaso Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Principal Product Designer will own the design of impactful buyer and owner-facing experiences, starting with a rebrand of Pacaso.com and personalized buyer experiences, followed by leading design for swap and scheduling features for owners.
Principal / Staff UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America)
Speridian Technologies Remote (🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America)
Staff UX Designers are responsible for creating end-to-end design experiences, translating product strategy and user research into practical design solutions that align with business goals and user needs. Key duties include delivering high-quality design artifacts like user flows and prototypes while championing accessibility and design consistency.
Principal Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Sofi Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
The Principal Designer will set a 12–24 month design vision, lead with craft, and drive innovation across the SIPS ecosystem, influencing at the organizational level while remaining hands-on with execution. This role involves leading company-level big bets from concept to shipped MVP and owning cross-surface, system-level experiences.
Principal Product Designer (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Fresenius Medical Care 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The role involves partnering with stakeholders to deliver web, mobile, and embedded software experiences for medical devices, aligning with the roadmap strategy to benefit patients and providers. Responsibilities include defining project requirements, developing user-centered design solutions, planning design activities across projects, and executing user research.
Principal UX Designer, North American Stores Design
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Principal UX Designer will lead design on complex customer problems across strategic initiatives, including premium/luxury experiences and new AI-driven features, while representing the design organization in executive meetings. Key duties involve analyzing customer problems, advocating for design quality, developing use cases, creating detailed design artifacts, and partnering with development teams for execution.
Principal, UX Designer – AI Shopping
🇺🇸 San Bruno, CA 94066, United States of America
Walmart 🇺🇸 San Bruno, CA 94066, United States of America
The role involves designing best-in-class AI shopping experiences with a high bar for craft, clarity, and usability, shaping agentic shopping journeys across discovery, decision-making, and purchase phases. This includes designing experiences spanning Walmart-owned surfaces and third-party AI platforms while balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Iowa, United States of America
Workiva Inc. 🇺🇸 Iowa, United States of America
This role is responsible for leading and shaping user experience strategy across multiple products, overseeing the end-to-end UX strategy from discovery through delivery and continuous optimization. Key duties include uncovering user needs, translating insights into scalable experience direction, and mentoring senior designers to elevate craft standards.
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.