Motion Graphic Specialist

Role Type: Part-Time (15–20 hrs/week, delayed compensation)
Location: Remote
Compensation Model: Retroactive pay + ownership stake

About FiNC

We're upgrading how America chooses its leaders. Right now, three middlemen decide which candidates you ever hear about: big money, party gatekeepers, and media manipulation. They control the money, the access, and the visibility every candidate needs to win. Good candidates are everywhere: teachers, veterans, small business owners, community leaders who genuinely want to represent people. The system is just built to keep them invisible.

FiNC is cutting out the middleman. Think of us as a matchmaker for civic life: we connect citizens to the candidates who actually want to represent them, the movements working on what they care about, and the people building the same world they want. No gatekeeper deciding who you get to choose from. We don't pick sides. FiNC is the referee, not a player. Not left, not right, just representation.

The DP Hub (hub.futureis.org) is live now: candidate profiles, a Civic Tags system that lets candidates define themselves beyond party labels, citizen priority surveys, and growing Candidate Discovery. Movements and communities are our biggest growth engine right now, because they bring the citizens candidates want to reach.

What makes this work isn't just the technology. FiNC's core focus is the human side: outreach, PR, social media, and building citizen buy-in. We're not marketing a website. We're campaigning for a better way to choose leaders. Every candidate with a profile and every movement that plugs in benefits from that ongoing work. And the system is built so everyone lifts everyone. When a candidate shares their profile, citizens who click through discover other candidates. When a movement drives people to the DP Hub, those citizens find candidates aligned with their values. A different incentive structure than anywhere else in politics.

Our structure matters: FiNC is building something akin to a cooperative-style nonprofit where team members are partners and co-architects in a mission to rebuild how American democracy works. If you're ready to help build the civic infrastructure America never got, with citizens and not gatekeepers, step in.

IMPORTANT: This involves DELAYED COMPENSATION – Please read carefully

To maintain our independence and avoid conflicts of interest, we are not accepting investors or financing that comes with strings attached. Instead, we are Crowd-Starting FiNC—building it together from the ground up. We’re asking team members to contribute 15-20 hours per week during this phase, with compensation paid retroactively once we become fully operational. This model only works if you see it as a short-term investment for long-term rewards. Everyone who joins is a partner, receiving an ownership stake in FiNC. Our structure is similar to a Nonprofit Cooperative, moving beyond the traditional “employee vs employer” dynamic into something more collaborative and forward-thinking. This model filters for people who believe in the mission deeply enough to build alongside us. It's not for everyone, and that's okay.

Culture and Employment

• Neurodiversity and diversity-of-thought are strengths, not obstacles
• Servant leadership, dynamic team structures, and shared ownership
• Purpose over profits, value over hours, and respect for work-life balance
• We reward authenticity, passion, and commitment—not conformity
• We support individual weaknesses to enhance collective strengths
• Continuous role assessments, long-term growth opportunities, and real career sustainability

From your first 2-way interview, you will see (and feel) how radically different we are.

Responsibilities

• Produce a steady stream of animated assets the team can drop into videos, social posts, podcasts, and live content
• Animate DP Hub moments: citizens adding their name, browsing candidate profiles, joining Discord, taking micro-actions, and other key experiences
• Animate our team's avatar in a growing library of basic poses, gestures, and mouth states, so video editors can mix and match for any situation without custom work each time
• Build branded transitions, lower-thirds, overlays, and other reusable motion elements for our video and podcast content
• Deliver organized, ready-to-use files in the formats the team actually needs: MP4, MOV with alpha, GIF, and web-ready exports, named and filed so anyone can find them
• Occasionally create a short fully animated piece from concept to delivery. Other team members can provide still graphics and other assets, but you'd handle every moving part
• Work alongside our graphic designer, video producers, and copywriters so animations match the voice and the message

Requirements

• 1-3 years of motion graphics experience
• Solid skills in After Effects and the Adobe Creative Suite
• Ability to draw or design clean 2D assets in a range of styles when needed
• A real commitment to making your art without AI, both for the integrity of your craft and the values behind this role
• Speed and consistency: you can deliver quality work on a regular cadence, not a single polished piece a month
• Collaborative and proactive: you take ownership, communicate clearly, and iterate fast
• Hungry, mission-aligned, and excited to grow with the team

Bonus Skills

• Static graphic design: logos, social graphics, memes, and other digital art. Motion is the priority, but if you do both well, we want to know
• 2D character animation. This role can grow into character work as our avatar and storytelling evolve
• 3D animation
• Web design, especially WordPress and Elementor layout work
• Other video creation skills: editing, motion design, illustration
• Unique ways to express deeper civic and political messages through art

About the Role

We're looking for a Motion Graphics Artist to build a steady, growing stream of animated assets our video editors, podcasters, and content creators can drop straight into their work. We're moving fast right now and we need volume: short loops, animated graphics, transitions, simple character moves for our avatar, and the occasional fully animated short. Your job is to keep the content library full so the team always has something fresh to pull from.

We're keeping things intentionally simple at this stage. Our avatar is a basic character with a handful of poses and simple mouth states, open and closed. The Digital Politics Hub animations are short illustrative loops, not full animated stories. We want clean, repeatable work delivered consistently. Volume and personality, not Pixar polish.

Here's why this role exists: we don't use AI for our graphics or animations. It would be an easy cheat, and if we let ourselves take it, this role wouldn't need to exist at all. People have been loud and clear about how they feel when companies generate their art, and we'd rather listen to that than save ourselves the work. So that's the line we draw around art: no AI-generated frames, no AI-assisted in-betweening, no AI-driven motion. We're hiring a real artist to do real, original work. If you're building your craft and want to keep it your own, this is built for you.

A note on fit: this role is built for someone early in their motion graphics career, or a graphic designer ready to grow into motion. If you're looking for prestige work or a senior title, this isn't it. If you're hungry, in love with the mission, and ready to put real hours into building something that matters, it might be exactly right.

Why this role matters: Animation is the skill our team is still missing, and we need it specifically because we won't take the AI shortcut on art. The assets you build will live across every video we make, every podcast clip, every social post. As FiNC grows and our visual storytelling gets more ambitious, this role grows with it. The avatar you help bring to life today becomes the face of FiNC down the line. If you're early in your motion graphics career, hungry to do real creative work, and excited about helping shape the look of a new kind of politics, this is the role.