Motion Design Jobs
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Principal UX Researcher, Kiro
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
As a Principal UX Researcher, you will own the complete research lifecycle for web products and drive strategic impact across the developer experience. Your research will influence how developers interact with Kiro's AI-powered development platform.
Principal UX Designer, Amazon Customer Service Technology
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Principal UX Designer will shape the future of customer service experiences by leading the design of AI-powered tools. This role involves setting strategic direction while actively engaging in hands-on design work.
Principal Product Designer: Travel & Conversion
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Move Travel Sdn. Bhd. 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Principal Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design of complex travel booking journeys for flights and hotels, focusing on UX architecture, flow optimization, and conversion rates. This role involves elevating design craft quality through high-fidelity motion design and mentoring junior designers by setting high standards for execution and strategic thinking.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Shift4 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
This role bridges design and engineering by translating design specifications and components into high-quality, reusable front-end code and maintaining the coded design system in partnership with design system owners. Responsibilities also include building interactive prototypes using AI-assisted tools and establishing foundational tools and workflows for design-to-code processes.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Valence 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves designing features to evolve the coaching platform into a multiplayer collaboration tool, including manager tooling and context-sharing, while establishing and evolving the design system for consistency at scale. Designers will work embedded with product and engineering to ship high-quality experiences weekly, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
Principal Product Designer: Travel & Conversion
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Airasia 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Principal Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design of complex travel booking journeys for flights and hotels, focusing on UX architecture, user flows, and motion design to optimize conversion rates. This role also involves setting the standard for design craft quality and informally mentoring junior designers by demonstrating best practices.
Product Designer, Principal Associate Level
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Capital One 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Product Designer will combine deep expertise in product design across interaction, visual, and service design to elevate the design practice and co-create innovative solutions for complex problems. This involves championing the customer through the design process by leveraging critical thinking, data, research insights, and understanding technical constraints.
Principal Product Designer, Hotels.com
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Expedia Group Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
The Principal Product Designer will shape world-class user experiences for Hotels.com, leading collaboration with cross-functional teams to evolve the product experience. Responsibilities include defining problem framing best practices, leading customer experience vision, and owning end-to-end experiences from discovery through iteration.
Principal Product Designer – Engineering Platforms & AI
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Commonwealth Bank 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
This role is accountable for the holistic design of engineering tooling, SDLC workflows, AI-powered engineering interactions, and platform experiences. The Principal Product Designer will shape how engineers experience internal platforms and AI-enabled workflows, ensuring they are usable, coherent, scalable, and aligned to engineering standards and business outcomes.
Sr. Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Fivetran 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
The role involves owning the end-to-end design strategy and execution for key product areas, delivering creative solutions, and shaping workflows for technical users to explore and understand data. This includes collaborating closely with stakeholders to shape roadmaps, aligning design strategy with business goals, and championing user-centered projects from concept to release.
Principal Product Designer. - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pagerduty 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Principal Product Designer will define and drive the design vision for PagerDuty's AI and automation capabilities, including AI agents, while leading cross-functional collaboration to translate complex AI features into intuitive and trustworthy user experiences. This role involves establishing design principles for AI transparency and mentoring other designers on AI-UX best practices.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
Constant Contact 🇺🇸 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer defines the long-term UX vision and design strategy for a major product pillar, owning the end-to-end design lifecycle for the most ambiguous and technically challenging product areas. This role acts as the highest-level design authority, influencing stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and Executive Leadership, and serving as a core leader for the Design System.
Principal UX designer (Cloud Application Security)
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Palo Alto Networks 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The role involves designing, building, and shipping industry-defining products for application security practitioners and developers, focusing on solving complex UX challenges with streamlined flows. Responsibilities include creating UX/UI concepts, redesigning visualizations, expanding the Design System, and collaborating closely with engineering teams through implementation.
Principal Product Designer (CDI)
🇺🇸 Glendale, California, United States of America
The Walt Disney Company 🇺🇸 Glendale, California, United States of America
This role involves independently driving multiple complex projects, setting team goals and direction, and solving difficult design problems while elevating the work of peers. Key responsibilities include shaping strategy and design vision for the advertising platform, focusing on campaign planning, creative review, and interactive ad formats.
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.