Motion Designer

The role

The Motion Designer will define the brand's motion language and build it across films, web, and product. You will create films, product animations, and UI micro-interactions while handing off assets to engineering.

What you will do

• Define the motion language including timing, easing, entrances, and transitions
• Make films for model launches, product announcements, research drops, and brand pieces
• Create web animation, scroll behaviour, UI micro-interactions, and walkthrough videos
• Hand off assets to engineering using Lottie, Rive, sprite sequences, or specs
• Visualise speech for conversational products
• Use AI in the pipeline for generative video, boards, previz, roto, and upscaling
• Work across design, marketing, product, research, and founders

Required qualifications

• 3+ years in motion design, in-house or at a studio
• Reel showing narrative work and work shipped inside a product or website
• Deep After Effects including shape layers, expressions, and proper rigging
• Figma
• Illustrator
• Photoshop
• Fundamentals of timing, weight, staging, anticipation, and type behavior
• Native fluency with AI tools in a professional motion workflow
• System thinking

Nice to have

• 3D - Blender or Cinema 4D
• Real-time or code-based motion: Rive, three.js, GLSL, TouchDesigner, Houdini
• Sound design and mix
• Indic typography in motion: animating Devanagari, Tamil or Kannada

Benefits

• Work alongside researchers, engineers, builders, and business leaders
• High ownership and high impact from day one

About the company

Sarvam is building the bedrock of Sovereign AI for India, developing a full-stack sovereign AI platform across research, models, infrastructure and applications. The company is backed by Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures.