Job Title: Motion/ Content Designer
Location: Remote
Duration: 6+ months
 
Job Description:
Motion design falls under product design:

• Design products—systematically, interactively, visually—with pixel-level precision
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product management, and research to develop impactful, user-centric, and data-informed solutions
• Collaborate with and manage feedback from stakeholders across the company
• Work alongside engineers throughout the implementation and quality assurance phases
• Uphold and inspire a high level of design execution and diverse creative explorations across the team
• Make selfless design decisions for the betterment of company

 
Specific to motion design:

• Design motion behaviors and interaction transitions that clarify hierarchy, state changes, system feedback, and overall product usability
• Create high-quality motion studies, prototypes, and production-ready specs to communicate timing, easing, choreography, and interaction intent to cross-functional partners
• Partner closely with engineering to ensure motion is implemented with craft, performance, and fidelity, and that interactions feel polished across platforms and devices
• Define and evolve motion principles, patterns, and guidelines that scale within the product design system
• Use motion strategically to enhance comprehension, delight, and continuity, while maintaining accessibility and avoiding unnecessary distraction
• Contribute to end-to-end product experiences through animation and interaction design, including onboarding, feedback states, transitions, empty states, and moments of delight
• Advocate for motion as a functional part of the user experience, not just a visual layer, grounding decisions in user needs, product goals, and platform constraints
• Refine motion details through iteration and QA, ensuring animation quality, consistency, and performance in the shipped product            

 
Skills:
 

• Proven track record envisioning, building, and iterating on digital products in close partnership with product management and engineering
• Strong portfolio that demonstrates outstanding design skills (refined aesthetic sensibilities and high quality craft are a must, prototyping is a plus) and product thinking informed by qualitative and quantitative insights
• Great communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate your design decisions and the problems they’re solving
• Attention to detail and a sense of pride and ownership over the quality of the product
• Solid understanding of layout, typography, color, and other graphic design principles
• Ability to work within and extend a design system.
• Experience working in design systems and/or product redesigns is a plus
• Team player with strong collaboration skills and ability bring cross-functional partners along in the journey
• High level of self-awareness with a growth mindset

 
Specific to motion design:

• Strong motion design craft, with demonstrated expertise in timing, easing, choreography, spatial relationships, and animation principles for digital products
• Portfolio showing motion as part of product UX, including interaction design, transitions, feedback states, and prototypes that improve usability and experience quality
• Ability to prototype motion and interaction concepts in tools such as After Effects, Figma, Principle, ProtoPie, Rive, or similar workflows
• Experience translating motion concepts into implementable specifications and partnering with engineers to bring them to life with high fidelity
• Understanding of motion systems and scalable interaction patterns, with the ability to create reusable guidance for product teams
• Sensitivity to performance, accessibility, and platform conventions when designing animation for real product environments
• Strong systems thinking, with the ability to use motion consistently across flows, states, and surfaces rather than treating it as one-off animation
• Ability to balance expression and restraint, knowing when motion should delight, when it should guide, and when it should stay out of the way

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 60.00/hr.