Kestra Technologies - Motion Designer - Make Complexity Move
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Requirements
• Design and implement micro-interactions and animated elements directly within the Kestra UI. Not decoration — motion that improves usability and creates moments of delight for technical users. • 3 — Own high-stakes video production • End-to-end ownership of motion graphics for product releases, webinar intros, YouTube tutorials, and event teasers — from concept and storyboard to final export. • 4 — Work with a hybrid animation workflow • Industry-standard tools (After Effects, Adobe suite) combined with code-based animation — CSS, Canvas, Lottie — for seamless web integration. You're comfortable using AI (Claude, Cursor) to generate and tweak animation code when it gets the job done faster. • 5 — Push the brand forward • You don't just apply the brand guidelines — you evolve them. You propose new visual directions, reference what's cutting-edge in motion design, and keep Kestra's identity fresh without breaking consistency. • 6 — Collaborate across the design system • Work hand-in-hand with the Founding Designer and UX Designer to ensure visual coherence from documentation to dashboard, from landing pages to release videos. • Proven track record across both marketing motion graphics (polished, narrative-driven) and UI animations (functional, performant, purposeful) — not just one or the other • Expert-level After Effects and Adobe Creative Suite — you understand timing, easing, and the principles of motion that communicate meaning, not just movement • Strong design sensibility: typography, layout, color. You design the scene, not just move objects around it • Technical literacy: you're not afraid of complex products, you embrace them as creative challenges • Autonomy in a remote, async environment — you take a brief, ask the right questions, and deliver without constant hand-holding • Fluent English — you're creating content for a global engineering community • Coding skills: CSS/SVG animations, Lottie, Rive — web-native performance matters • Open source DNA: experience working with developer-tooling brands or OSS communities • 3D basics: Cinema 4D or Blender to add depth to product storytelling • Storyboarding: strong ability to sketch narratives before jumping into the software
Responsibilities
• 1 — Translate complexity into motion • Take intricate orchestration concepts — DAGs, triggers, parallel executions, event-driven pipelines — and turn them into animations that make sense at a glance. Your output is what makes a developer say "oh, that's how it works."
Benefits
• Series A company, moving fast — your work ships and gets seen • Small, senior design team: you have real creative ownership, not a ticket queue • Technical product with a genuine visual challenge — this is not a commodity design gig • Remote-first with a strong engineering culture • Open-source community of ~30K developers who will watch, use, and share what you make
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