Staff Motion Designer

Harvey

Staff Motion Designer at Harvey, creating motion design for brand storytelling and product launches in a hybrid setting. Collaborating with multiple teams to shape motion narratives for complex AI workflows.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $157,000 - $235,600 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the motion design language for Harvey’s brand across launch videos, product explainers, web and campaign moments, event assets, social cuts, sales enablement, and other high-leverage creative surfaces.
Create motion concepts, storyboards, styleframes, animatics, and final motion assets that make complex AI workflows feel clear, premium, and unmistakably Harvey.
Partner closely with Brand, Product Marketing, Product Design, Creative Operations, and other GTM stakeholders to translate positioning, product context, and user needs into motion narratives that can ship quickly.
Develop reusable motion systems, templates, animation principles, and production workflows so Harvey can scale motion output without reinventing the wheel on every request.
Use judgment to scope work appropriately across polished hero moments, scrappy launch needs, quick-turnaround edits, and longer-term brand-system investments.
Raise the craft bar for motion while remaining willing to do the unglamorous but important production work required in a fast-moving creative team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A strong portfolio of motion work that demonstrates storytelling, art direction, animation craft, visual systems thinking, and the ability to explain the process behind finished work.
Deep fluency in motion design tools and workflows such as After Effects, Figma, Cinema 4D, Lottie, Rive, code-adjacent motion, or comparable production tools.
Experience building motion for brand, product, marketing, launch, or education contexts, ideally in a product-led technology company or high-growth SaaS environment.
A demonstrated ability to simplify complex concepts visually without overloading the viewer, including strong instincts for pacing, sequencing, hierarchy, narration, and accessibility.
Strong cross-functional communication skills, including the ability to clarify a brief, align with PMM or Marketing goals, handle competing feedback, and prioritize multiple stakeholder requests.
A staff-level ownership mindset: able to bring ideas, shape systems, operate through ambiguity, give and receive feedback well, and still roll up sleeves when the team needs execution support.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
Retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
Flexible PTO

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Hard Skills & Tools

motion designstoryboardinganimationvisual systems thinkingpacingsequencinghierarchynarrationaccessibility

Soft Skills

cross-functional communicationclarifying briefsaligning with marketing goalshandling feedbackprioritizing requestsownership mindsetoperating through ambiguitygiving feedbackreceiving feedbackexecution support