Animator & Motion Graphics Designer

The role

You will be the first in-house video animator and the creative engine for PostHog's animated visuals. You will define the company's motion language and create assets for product launches, social shorts, and the website.

What you will do

• Define how PostHog moves by shaping motion and animation language.
• Illustrate and animate the hedgehog mascot.
• Act as the go-to person for motion in documentaries, product launches, and social shorts.
• Recreate and reimagine the PostHog UI in 3D space.
• Animate icons that live inside the app.
• Build a toolkit of animated logos, brand elements, and motion templates.
• Create motion for ads, campaigns, and website GIFs.
• Perform pure illustration work alongside the Graphics team.
• Take animation pieces from idea and script to delivery.
• Design and draw own assets for animation.

Required qualifications

• Advanced in After Effects, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating technical excellence, a clear creative point of view, and a wide variety of styles.
• Experience illustrating, designing, and animating motion graphics.
• Ability to originate ideas from concept to delivery.
• Highly creative artist with strong personal standards for quality.

Nice to have

• Fresco
• Created content for developer communities or technical audiences.
• Basic video editing.
• Translated product UI / UX into animated assets.

About the company

PostHog is a product-led company that provides a context layer for products by ingesting and storing analytics, errors, replays, and business data. They are a natively remote, well-funded company that values transparency, autonomy, and shipping fast.