Staff Motion Designer

Staff Motion Designer Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time alongside in-person collaboration that fosters trust, innovation, and a strong team culture. About Superhuman Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company’s products include Grammarly’s writing assistance, Coda’s collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com and about our values here. The Opportunity To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a proactive and product-obsessed Staff Motion Designer to join our Brand Creative team. This role will drive and contribute to bold, expressive storytelling about our products and the customers who use them. You’re a detail-oriented problem solver with a passion for exceptional creative outputs and an interest in emerging technology. In addition to shipping high-quality work and setting the standard for how our brand articulates itself in its hyper-crowded landscape, you’ll help smooth out operational processes and problem-solve cross-functionally. As a Staff Motion Designer, you will: Conceptualize our brand and product storytelling through motion: Develop creative concepts and visual storytelling solutions for product launches, brand campaigns, explainer videos, and marketing assets. Design and animate with exceptional craft: Create high-quality motion graphics, animations, and visual effects for digital platforms, websites, social media, and presentations. Collaborate with cross-functional partners: Work closely with product, marketing, UX/UI, and engineering teams to ensure motion design enhances user experience and aligns with project goals. Maintain and evolve brand guidelines: Ensure all motion design work is consistent with established brand guidelines, and contribute to evolving motion standards for the brand. Lead and mentor: Provide art direction, feedback, and mentorship to junior motion designers and other creatives on the team with whom you partner. Stay updated on cutting-edge technology: Research and implement emerging motion design trends, tools, and best practices to keep the team’s work fresh and competitive. Pitch creative ideas: Present motion concepts and storyboards to stakeholders, clearly communicating the rationale behind creative decisions. Manage multiple projects: Oversee multiple projects simultaneously, meeting deadlines and adapting to shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment. The person who will be an excellent fit for this role will demonstrate: Proactivity: The company is moving quickly and it’s easy to feel left behind in the velocity. Intrinsic proactivity will be key for this role to succeed. Understanding of core strategy: Your work will push the boundaries of our brand, but also needs to be relevant to the business. Curiosity: This role will require questioning, challenging, and embracing discussion. You’ll need to fall in love with the details and seek to understand where the gaps lie. Grit: This role will be required to work in constantly changing product conditions as the company continues to ship at a high velocity. Compensation and benefits Superhuman offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more: Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits) Disability and life insurance options 401(k) and RRSP matching Paid parental leave Twenty days of paid time off per year, eleven days of paid holidays per year, and unlimited sick days Home office stipends Caregiver and pet care stipends Wellness stipends Admission discounts Learning and development opportunities Superhuman takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations. Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future. United States: Zone 1: $210,000- $250,000/year (USD) We encourage you to apply At Superhuman, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Superhuman is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).