Motion Designer

This role is remote, so it can be executed globally. If you prefer, you can work from our offices in New York, London and Warsaw.

About ElevenLabs

At ElevenLabs, we are pioneering voice technology with our cutting-edge research and products.

We launched in January 2023 and have since reached over 1 million users globally and have partnered with the world’s biggest names (see customer stories). We have closed our Series-B funding at 1.1B valuation earlier this year and are backed by the leading names in tech and AI (Nat Fridman, Daniel Gross, Andreessen Horowitz, Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, Oculus VR co-founder Brendan Iribe, Deepmind & Inflection co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, and many others).

We are at an exciting phase of our growth and innovation and are looking for ambitious people to help us further push the boundaries of voice AI. This is a rare chance to be an early member of a company on the rise. If this excites you, we want to meet you!

Who we are

A global team of passionate and innovative individuals united by curiosity and a shared goal: to be the first choice for AI audio solutions. Together, we are shaping a new technology and market from the ground up. We innovate quickly and take pride in getting things right, from the big picture initiatives to the details that keep us moving smoothly every day. We work with high autonomy and accountability where the best idea wins at any time and from anyone.

About the role

The Design team at ElevenLabs is crafting experiences for the next generation of audio workflows using generative AI. You'll work in entirely new and unexplored problem spaces, like crafting experiences around voice cloning that will allow people to generate content in realistic voices, languages, and accents, to create universally accessible content, safely. You'll reimagine how creative teams craft sounds just by describing them, and how they bring it all together in one AI-first generative audio platform. The work here has the potential to revolutionize workflows for creators to media and entertainment, publishing giants, to defining entirely new spaces like conversational AI companies.

As a Motion Designer, you'll contribute to our mission, vision, and strategy by creating stunning visuals and motion graphics that simplify complex interactions and solve challenging design problems. You'll work closely with our video and design team to imagine the best way to tell our product stories in a captivating way, from the early inception of a script to storyboarding how the script comes to life, to the final videos and assets that need to be produced for us to share.

You will work with our Video, Comms, and Design teams to successfully communicate, evolve, and execute a strong motion design standard that showcases ElevenLabs as an innovator in the generative AI audio space. You are a crucial component of our company's growth and product launches through your contributions to short and long-term strategic direction, creating and maintaining high visual standards and a strong focus on user needs. You have an owner's mentality, taking pride in your work and in your team's work, and view what you do as a part-owner and builder of ElevenLabs.

You will work closely with Justin Hackney, Jack Maltby, Sam Sklar, and Ammaar Reshi.

Key responsibilities

• Develop a user-centric Motion Design System that scales to both our mobile & web products

• Work closely with our video and audio teams to bring scripts to life

• Partner with design to animate assets that can be embedded into the product experience

• QA work to ensure designs and creative assets are polished, on brand, and ready for implementation handoff or final delivery

• Efficiently execute to ship products that deliver impact for our business and customers

Who you are

We're looking for exceptional individuals who combine technical excellence with ethical awareness, who are excited by hard problems and motivated by human impact. You’ll strive with us if you:

• Are passionate about audio AI driven by a desire to make content universally accessible and breaking the frontiers of new tech.

• Are a highly motivated and driven individual with a strong work ethic. Our team is aware of this critical moment of audio AI evolution and is committed to going the extra mile to lead.

• Are analytical, efficient, and strive on solving complex challenges with a first principles mindset.

• Consistently strive for excellence, delivering high-quality work quickly and exceeding expectations.

• Take initiative and work autonomously from day one, prioritizing learning and contribution while leaving ego aside.

What you bring

We do not require any formal experience, certifications, or degrees. Instead, we are seeking enthusiastic motion designers who can showcase solving impressively hard problems with artifacts such as past projects and designs. Even directly sharing a rough demo reel of your work is a great way to show us your craft! We do require:

• 5+ years of motion design experience in a product setting

• Self-directed, solution-oriented, and ability to work autonomously

• Thrives in a fast-paced (sometimes ambiguous) environment

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to use motion to narrate user experience based on users' behaviors, needs, and emotions

• Exceptional process thinker and problem solver

• Demonstrates a strong foundation in basic animation principles, often related to physics and patterns

• Master in After Effects and Figma

• Creative thinking toward establishing and executing on the vision for team initiatives

• Challenge the status quo, push innovation and inspire people toward a unified outcome

Nice to haves

• Experience with other animation apps such as Rive and Lottie

• Demonstration of inclusive motion principles and interest in accessibility best practices

• Exceptional collaboration skills and ability to partner with cross-functional partners, to drive towards successful outcomes

• Ability to get in the weeds with your engineering partners and make sense of technical constraints, while still pushing forward and maintaining a high design bar and level of execution

What we offer

• High-velocity innovation: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy.

• A truly global team: Collaboration with teammates across 30+ countries, a global customer footprint and office hubs in New York, London and Warsaw. Annual company offsite for the whole team to get together (the last one in Croatia!)

• Remote first: We prioritize your talent, not your location, with structured asynchronous workflows for maximum impact and minimal meetings.

• Continuous growth: Collaborate with AI leaders, shape your path, and contribute where you excel most.