Founding Motion Designer

About the role

We are seeking a Motion Designer to help define how LiveKit moves. This role is foundational, focusing on bringing our brand, product story, and launches to life through thoughtful, high-craft animation. You will work across product marketing, launch films, campaign systems, social, events, web marketing surfaces, and brand moments that help developers understand what LiveKit makes possible.

Responsibilities

• Help define LiveKit’s motion language from the ground up: the principles, timing, behaviors, and feel that make our brand recognizably ours.
• Lead motion for major launches and campaigns, from announcement videos and hero moments to social cuts and supporting assets.
• Bring LiveKit’s website and key marketing surfaces to life with animation that is thoughtful, performant, and in service of the story.
• Build reusable motion systems, templates, components, and workflows so high-quality motion can ship faster across the team.
• Partner closely with brand, marketing, product, and design engineering to turn complex technical ideas into motion that feels clear, sharp, and worth watching.

Requirements

You have a standout motion portfolio across brand and marketing work, from fast-turn social edits to polished launch moments. You’re excellent with After Effects and have a modern motion toolkit, but your foundation is design: type, composition, pacing, hierarchy, and taste. You can take a loose brief, find the shape of the idea, and drive the work from concept to final export. You care deeply about the details — timing, easing, transitions, rhythm — and know when something feels right. You move quickly and ship, but not at the expense of craft. You’re curious about how AI can speed up, expand, or sharpen the creative process. You’re comfortable bringing motion to the web, whether through Lottie, Rive, CSS/SVG, prototyping tools, or close collaboration with design engineers. You like working close to the product and can make technical ideas feel simple, sharp, and exciting.

Qualifications

The right candidate will have a proven track record of creating compelling motion work that elevates brands and products. Experience with After Effects is essential, along with a strong understanding of design principles and motion design techniques. A passion for motion design and a desire to contribute to a growing motion practice are also crucial.

Skills

• Strong portfolio showcasing motion design skills
• Proficiency in After Effects
• Understanding of design principles and motion design techniques
• Ability to translate complex technical ideas into clear, memorable, and emotionally resonant motion
• Comfort with web animation and various motion design tools
• Experience working closely with cross-functional teams

Benefits

LiveKit offers a competitive salary and equity package, health, dental, and vision benefits, and a flexible vacation policy. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.

Pay

$140K - $220K

Schedule

This is a full-time position.