Product Designer

Job Title: Product Motion designer/ Motion Product Designer/ Motion Designer/ UX Motion designer/ UI/UX Motion designer

Location: Remote (Canada)

Start date: ASAP (strong potential for extension upto 18 months)

Job Description:

We are seeking a multi-skilled Motion Designer with proficiency in product design. We are looking for a designer who has demonstrated the ability to effectively partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and other designers; and someone who has a talent for telling stories through motion.

This role is for our MSN Feeds and News space and will help us redefine how MSN customers read news, with the help of AI to increase topic comprehension, spot misinformation, and limit bias in news coverage.

Portfolio/Reel review is required.

Responsibilities

• Explore, iterate, and create inspiring product experiences based on deep understanding of customers, partners, and business strategies.
• Strong passion for motion and animation, aiming to simplify complex interactions and solve challenging design problems.
• Define and improve the look and feel of our products through motion design.
• Work creatively around technical implementation challenges to provide delightful motion design for our customers.
• Craft thoughtful, innovative, elegant, and beautiful motion designs, while being proficient in rapidly produce rough motion sketches.
• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary team designers, engineers, and project managers to ensure shipping products matches motion design specs and meets the quality bar set by design.
• Communicate with developers through the code implementation phase to realize design vision.
• Document design and animation decisions as specs for future team and product reference. Should be able to make hand-off to partners effortless and smooth.
• Understand the array of technical constraints, user goals and business requirements that shape current and future products.
• Follow, adapt, and evolve motion language and principles according to each design problem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in User Experience, Motion, Animation, Interaction or Graphic Design or equivalent design-related field.
• 4+ years professional experience as a UX motion designer or similar design role.
• Understanding of the basic principles of user experience (UX), graphic design, visual, motion, animation, patterns, and physics.
• Experience in a variety of design tools such as Figma, ProtoPie, Adobe Suits, LottieFiles and other motion design and prototyping tools.
• Online portfolio highlighting multiple projects that demonstrate Motion Design and/or Interaction Design in web contexts, and your direct contributions to those projects.

Salary Range: The salary for this position is between CAD $150000 - $154000 annually. Factors that may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

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