Sr UI Motion Designer

Job Responsibilities

• Design and deliver animated component prototypes, motion interactions, icon animations, transitions, and production-ready motion specifications that clearly communicate UI behavior, enhance engagement, simplify sophisticated interactions, and maintain consistent motion across the digital ecosystem.
• Leverage AI tooling and emerging motion technologies to rapidly prototype, visualize, test, and iterate on motion concepts while streamlining documentation, developer handoff, and implementation workflows.
• Define and maintain reusable motion tokens, animation principles, motion guidelines, and scalable motion patterns that bring clarity, usability, consistency, and accessibility to interactions across web and app experiences.
• Collaborate with Experience Designers, the Design System Manager, and engineering teams to find opportunities where motion enhances usability, align motion solutions with technical constraints and implementation requirements, and ensure motion is a core part of digital experiences.
• Act as the motion subject-matter expert by writing and maintaining documentation on motion guidelines for the design system; partner with the Design System Manager to host workshops and training sessions that help designers and engineers optimally apply motion across products and platforms.
• Provide feedback and direction to ensure motion solutions are accessible, responsive, on-brand, and aligned with established motion principles, ecommerce and native app guidelines, and emerging trends, tools, and standards in UI motion and interaction design.

Education and Work Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or Certification in Graphic/Web Design, Animation, or Motion Graphics plus 5 years of related work experience OR Advanced degree with 3 years of related experience.
• Other acceptable areas of study include Motion Design, Animation, Interaction Design, Graphic Design or a related field.
• 4-7 years. Related working experience in Motion Design, animating user interfaces for ecommerce websites and native apps.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Expertise in animating UI elements, icons, transitions and interactions to enhance user engagement and usability.
• Strong understanding of design principles, modern UI patterns, elements, interactions, responsive web design and accessibility standards.
• High proficiency in standardizing animation patterns and creating motion tokens for design systems.
• High Proficiency in Figma, After Effects, Lottie, Rive, Framer, or other motion graphics tool.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work closely with designers and engineers.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to verbally articulate and write documentation on motion guidelines.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to design and animation quality.
• Understanding of web standards and HTML/CSS.
• Understanding of new AI workflows and tools like Claude or Codex.

License and Certifications

• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Travel

• Yes

Safety Sensitive Position

• No

Pay Range

• $97,300 - $175,500

Corporate Bonus Target

• 15%