Motion Designer

Motion designer

About ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is a growth-stage startup that has built the most advanced AI voice models and AI voice products (text to speech, audiobooks creation, dubbing, and the voice library).

We launched in January 2023 and have since reached over 1 million users and partnered with the world's largest publishers (The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Atlantic), media companies (Super Hi-Fi, D-ID, Futuri), and gaming studios (Paradox, Cloud Imperium Games, Don't Nod). We 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 have a unique mix of in-house cutting-edge machine learning research (led by our co-founder Piotr, who was previously a researcher at Google) and strong product-led traction (led by our co-founder Mati, who was at Palantir before and after the IPO).

We have recently concluded our successful Series-B funding round and are hiring to double down on our initial traction to make ElevenLabs a truly generational product company and research lab.

Join us in shaping the future of voice technology.

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.

What you'll be doing

- 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

What we look for in you

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

- Low ego, collaborative, positive attitude, and open-minded

- 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