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You'll animate avatars and characters, create emotes and reactions, design interface transitions and interactions, and craft the rewards, effects and feedback that make the app feel alive.\nThis role combines motion designer, technical artist and design engineer. You'll come up with the motion ideas, build the systems that drive them, and ship them. We don't expect you to be equally deep in all three areas, but you should be strong in one and comfortable in the other two.\nLocation: In-person only (New York office)\nType: Full-time\nReports to: Creative Team\nWhat you'll do\nMotion design\nAnimate avatars, characters, objects and in-game elements, giving each a clear personality in motion.\n\nConcept and animate emotes, reactions and expressions that read instantly and feel satisfying.\n\nDesign UI transitions and interactions across the app, including how avatars and interface elements move together.\n\nCreate rewards, celebrations and game feedback that make key moments feel great.\n\nProduce polished 2D and 3D animation and visual effects for product and gameplay.\n\nBuild character rigs, bones and blend states that keep motion expressive and reusable.\n\nCreate interactive state machines (for example in Rive) driven by user input, app events and AI-generated moods.\n\nSet up pipelines and naming conventions so new animations and characters slot in cleanly.\n\nOptimize assets for real-time playback: file size, frame rate, memory and battery.\n\nWork closely with product designers and engineers to implement animations efficiently on iOS, Android and web.\n\nPrototype motion concepts and take them through to production-ready assets.\n\nDebug and polish motion in production, working directly with engineers on performance.\n\nBuild and document a motion system so the team can extend characters and effects consistently.\n\nWhat we're looking for\n[3+] years across character animation, motion design, technical art or front-end/game development.\n\nA strong portfolio focused on product, games or interactive experiences, showing range across characters, UI motion and effects.\n\nAt least one real-time or interactive piece you built yourself.\n\nProficiency with tools such as After Effects, Blender, Cinema 4D, Rive or similar.\n\nStrong understanding of timing, feedback, responsiveness and game feel.\n\nExperience building state-driven animation (Rive, Unity, Spine or similar).\n\nWorking coding skills in at least one of JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift or Kotlin, enough to integrate and prototype motion yourself.\n\nHigh attention to detail and the ability to work quickly in a fast-paced environment.\n\nAble to work in person at our NYC office.\n\nNice to have\nIllustration or character design skills, so you can shape new characters from scratch.\n\n3D experience in Blender, Spline or Unity, including shaders or procedural animation.\n\nLip-sync or audio-driven animation experience.\n\nExperience with React Native, SwiftUI or Jetpack Compose animation APIs.\n\nBackground in games, animated film or AI companion products.\n\nPerks & benefits\nMedical, dental and vision insurance, with 100% of premiums covered by Pure, starting on your first day.\n\nCompany computer.\n\nFree Equinox membership.\n\nDinner provided in the office every night.\n\nUp to $60/day for other meals when in the office.\n\nWeekly dry cleaning and laundry service.\n\nPure is an equal opportunity employer. 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