Motion Designer - Brand & Digital

TasteMakers is a curated network of designers, creative technologists, and AI-native makers working on projects with leading AI labs, tech companies, and brands. We're on a mission to end AI slop.

We're looking for motion designers whose work makes people stop scrolling: clean typography, considered timing, premium feel, and restraint over spectacle. You might come from brand and campaign motion, kinetic type and motion systems, or motion for websites and products. What matters is taste and craft, and the ability to explain why a piece of motion works.

This is a general pool for motion design experts. Qualified designers are matched to active, paid projects as they open.

Remote and async, as an independent contractor. Commitment: 15-40 hours per week.

What you will do

• Animate brand and campaign assets from static frames: social posts, launch videos, announcements, and end cards
• Build motion systems and kinetic typography that hold together across a whole campaign or product
• Design motion for websites and interfaces: scroll-driven reveals, page transitions, animated navigation, and interaction states
• Write precise motion specs (duration, easing, stagger, triggers) and direct AI coding or generation tools to bring them to life
• Review and critique motion work, giving specific feedback on timing, easing, hierarchy, and restraint
• Evaluate AI-generated motion and video across iterations, and help AI systems learn what separates mediocre from exceptional motion

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional motion design experience with a strong reel or live portfolio
• Impeccable taste: clean typography, considered timing and easing, and a premium, restrained feel
• Fluent in After Effects; Cinema 4D, Blender, Rive, Lottie, Jitter, or Framer a plus
• Strong understanding of motion principles: easing, timing, rhythm, and when motion adds versus distracts
• Ability to articulate clearly why a piece of motion works or doesn't, in plain language
• Fast and reliable: comfortable turning around polished work and iterating on quick feedback
• Strongly preferred: motion for websites or products (scroll and page-level, not only hover effects), and experience directing AI coding or generation tools
• Bonus: brand launch campaigns, kinetic type systems, or motion design systems

Application

Tell us about yourself and share your portfolio link. ~10 min

Skills test

A still frame can't show us your timing. Share your reel and your strongest motion pieces, and tell us exactly what you owned on each one and which tools you used. ~10 min

Remote and async, as an independent contractor. Taste Labs pays twice a month by bank transfer or Wise; rates are set per project and not published.