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We’re fully bootstrapped, profitable, and built from zero to $10M+ ARR in under three years.\nAbout the Team\nYou'll join the Product team, working alongside our UI/UX Designer, Product Managers, Engineering, and Marketing.\nMotion is what makes our product feel like a game instead of a spreadsheet. Levels, streaks, unlocks, and our mascot Jymbo all live or die on how they move.\nAbout the Role\nWe're hiring a Motion & Graphics Designer to own everything that moves at Liftoff, in the app and in our marketing.\nThis is a motion-first role with real graphic design range. You'll animate characters, build in-app motion, cut marketing assets, and design the static graphics that sit around them.\nYour core focus areas:\nCharacter animation for Jymbo and the wider cast\n\nIn-app motion design: transitions, celebrations, unlocks, state changes\n\nAnimated graphics for features, shop items, and collectibles\n\nMarketing assets: social, ads, App Store, launch content\n\nAnimatics and storyboards that let the team see a feature before it's built\n\nGraphic design to support all of the above\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nMotion that ships in the product. Files hand off cleanly and perform on devices.\n\nJymbo feels alive. A character with a consistent personality across dozens of animations.\n\nMarketing assets that travel. Content built to be shared, not just posted.\n\nA documented motion language: timing, easing, and reusable patterns the whole team can pull from.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\nAnimate characters\nBring Jymbo to life with new rigs, poses, expressions, and reaction animations\n\nBuild a consistent character personality across quests, streaks, wins, and losses\n\nProduce 2D vector animation built for reuse, not one-offs\n\nDesign in-app motion\nAnimate transitions, celebrations, unlocks, progress states, and micro-interactions\n\nShip Lottie and Rive files engineers can drop straight into React Native\n\nWork inside performance budgets: file size, frame rate, battery, low-end devices\n\nBuild marketing and social assets\nCut motion content for social, ads, App Store, and launches\n\nDesign for shareability, including formats built to get reposted\n\nTurn product features into short, legible visual stories\n\nStoryboard and pitch with animatics\nTake a feature brief and produce an animatic the team can react to\n\nUse motion to pressure-test an idea before it becomes engineering work\n\nHandle supporting graphic design\nIn-app graphics: splash screens, status cards, game-like items, collectibles\n\nIllustration and vector artwork for features and campaigns\n\nKeep your work consistent with the design system our UI/UX Designer maintains\n\nYou’ll Likely Succeed If You Have\nWe don't expect you to check every box. We care most about ownership, judgment, and shipping.\nA strong animation reel with character work in it, not only kinetic type and logo stings\n\nAdobe After Effects fluency, including export to Lottie\n\nRive experience for character and interactive UI motion\n\nFigma fluency, enough to work inside an existing design system and hand off cleanly\n\nReal graphic design ability. You can design the static asset, not just animate someone else's.\n\nShipped animation in a live product or campaign, with users who actually saw it\n\nClear written communication. You can spec motion, document timing, and explain your choices.\n\nComfort in a startup environment: short feedback loops, big ownership, no red tape\n\nBonus Attributes\nMarketing and social assets you've shipped before, ideally with performance you can point to\n\nGaming animation experience (UI, characters, effects, game feel)\n\nMobile consumer animation experience at scale\n\nPerformance-conscious animation know-how on mobile\n\nFamiliarity with React Native Reanimated or Skia, enough to talk to engineers about what's feasible\n\n3D or Blender ability for stills and short marketing pieces\n\nShipped in health, wellness, social, or gaming\n\nSustained depth in a craft, sport, or community outside of work\n\nTools & Tech Stack\nYou don't need prior experience with every tool, but you should be excited to work in this stack.\nMotion: Adobe After Effects, Rive, Lottie\n\nDesign: Figma\n\nApp: React Native (Expo), Reanimated, Skia\n\nMonetization: RevenueCat, Superwall\n\nExperimentation / Analytics: Statsig\n\nAt Liftoff, You’ll Enjoy\nAutonomy and Ownership: you are in charge of your time at Liftoff. Decide what you want to do, align with leadership, and go for it.\n\nTop-of-the-Market Cash & Equity Compensation: we pay for high performers.\n\nA World-Class Team: low-ego, high standards, and real ownership.\n\nInterview Process\nHiring Manager Screening\n\nTake-Home Challenge: animate one short in-app moment (a Jymbo reaction or an unlock), delivered as a Lottie or Rive file\n\nCraft Deep Dive: reel walkthrough plus a live discussion of existing animation challenges in Liftoff\n\nWork Week Trial (paid, simulating the real work environment)\n\nCompensation and Benefits\nCompetitive cash (based on level and scope)\n\nCompany-paid lunch every day (if you’re in office)\n\nLifetime Liftoff Pro membership\n\nEqual Opportunity\nLiftoff is an equal opportunity employer. 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