Hiring: Lead Motion Designer Company: Hinge Health Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:43:37 Target Skills & Keywords : Figma About the job Experience: •8+ years of professional experience in motion design, video, editing, or a related creative discipline. Required Skills: •Hinge Health is building an expressive and scalable motion language across brand, product, marketing, and digital experiences. As Lead Motion Designer, you will shape how complex ideas become clear, compelling stories that help people move beyond pain and get back to doing things they love. •Lead multi-channel, multi-platform motion initiatives from creative direction through final delivery. You will partner with creative directors, designers, writers, editors and business stakeholders to turn briefs into high-quality work that is distinctive, on-brand, audience-aware, and connected to business goals. •This is an individual contributor role. You will provide craft leadership, ideation, and mentorship without direct people-management responsibility. •Build strong working relationships across Brand, Creative & Content, Marketing, and other key partner teams. •Develop fluency in Hinge Health’s brand expression, assess production workflows, and creative review processes. •Take ownership of priority motion projects and establish a clear vision, scope, timelines, and decision paths. •Define and evolve Hinge Health’s motion principles, standards, and quality bar in partnership with creative and cross-functional leaders. •Lead complex motion projects across brand campaigns, product videos, website, paid and organic channels, presentation decks and digital touchpoints. Qualifications: •A craft leader who can move fluidly between creative strategy and hands-on execution, remaining close to the work and its details. •A strategic storyteller who can simplify complex product, clinical, technical, or business concepts into clear and engaging motion. •A systems thinker who enjoys building motion principles, templates, workflows, and production practices that help teams create better work at scale. •A confident cross-functional partner who can facilitate creative discussions, synthesize feedback, give clear direction, and drive alignment. •A learn-it-all who continues to advance their craft, explores new methods, and shares practical learnings with the team. •An owner who makes sound decisions amid ambiguity and remains accountable for quality, timelines, and outcomes. •A collaborative teammate who raises the creative bar, supports others’ growth, and embodies Hinge Health’s leadership principles. •A portfolio demonstrating strong motion craft, conceptual thinking, visual storytelling, animation, and production judgment. •Advanced understanding of motion principles, including timing, pacing, easing, eye trace, tension and release, and visual hierarchy. •Advanced proficiency in motion design and production tools, including Figma, Final Cut Pro, Cinema 4D, Rive, or equivalent tools. Compensation: •$150,000 - $206,800 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!