Senior Motion Designer
Duolingo
Senior Motion Designer
Duolingo
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Pittsburgh • Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $130,900 - $222,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Craft satisfying and delightful product features and mechanics across the Duolingo app
- Identify and tackle ambitious interactive and visual design problems
- Collaborate closely across Design, Product, Creative Technology, and Engineering teams
- Build, own, and maintain documentation of animation specs
- Contribute to the impact and culture of the motion design discipline
- Contribute to creative projects that bring delight and function to the Duolingo learning experience through UX Motion, Interaction Design, and Motion Graphics
- Work within Design Studio to bring Duolingo’s world to life through motion, characters, and sound
Requirements
- A broad portfolio of professional work showcasing animation craft and technical expertise
- 5 years of experience in motion design, preferably for digital products
- A strong foundation in After Effects, with interest or experience in Figma, Rive, and AI tooling
- Proven ability to thrive in small, fast-paced teams and champion your work to teammates and leadership
- A highly organized and iterative creative process
- The ability to work in or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA, Detroit, MI, or New York, NY
- Experience working on both in-house teams and in a studio/agency (exceptional candidates)
- Experience writing specs and collaborating with engineers to implement animation to product (exceptional candidates)
- Experience in animating and rigging interactions in Rive (exceptional candidates)
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- World-class benefits
- Interview accommodations available (contact accommodations@duolingo.com)
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
motion designanimationinteraction designmotion graphicsanimatingriggingwriting specs
Soft skills
collaborationorganizationcreativitycommunicationadaptability
