Senior Motion Designer

About Engine At Engine, we’re transforming business travel into something personalized, rewarding, and simple. For too long, managing travel and spend has been overwhelming and fragmented — we’re here to change that. We believe the future of travel should be seamless and powered by technology that delights customers at every step. That’s why we’re building a platform that brings together corporate travel, a powerful charge card, and modern spend management in one place.

To make this vision real, we’re looking for exceptional, mission-driven people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel.

More than 20,000 companies already rely on Engine to support over 1 million travelers and billions in annual bookings each year. Cash flow positive with rapid growth, we pair exclusive Engine-only rates, industry-leading rewards, and intelligent automation to help businesses save money while delivering world-class personalization and convenience.

Backed by Telescope Partners, Blackstone, and Permira, Engine has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing travel and fintech platforms in North America, with honors including the Deloitte Fast 500 and Built In’s Best Places to Work.

Join Our Journey at Engine At Engine, we’re revolutionizing work travel. Our modern travel platform isn’t just about booking trips; it’s about transforming how businesses and their teams experience travel. From seamless booking options with top airlines, hotels, and car-rental providers to single-invoice billing and flexible trip modifications, we make travel not only easier to manage but also enjoyable. Backed by powerhouse investors like Telescope Partners, Blackstone, Elefund, and Permira, we’re growing fast—and we want you to be part of it.

About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Motion Designer to join our Brand team at Engine. This is a mid-level role for a motion design expert who can make ideas move across every format—brand films, social, product, and campaign. You’ll help define and evolve our motion point of view, creating work that stands out from the typical and sets a new bar for how our brand moves.

What You’ll Do

• Concept, design, and animate motion assets across brand, product, and marketing surfaces.
• Work across a range of outputs, videos, social content, campaign spots, product UI, and brand identity motion.
• Collaborate closely with designers, art directors, and producers to bring creative ideas to life through animation.
• Create and document our motion principles, building a flexible, scalable, and distinctive motion system.
• Explore new techniques, transitions, and visual languages to keep our motion fresh, dynamic, and ahead of the curve.
• Prep and deliver assets optimized for web, social, product, and events.
• Support product and marketing teams with motion best practices and technical QA.

What We’re Looking For

• 5-8+ years of experience in motion design, animation, or related creative production.
• Advanced proficiency in After Effects, Figma and figma ani pipeline, and Adobe Creative Suite; familiarity with Cinema 4D, or other 3D generative tools is a plus.
• Strong grasp of timing, composition, and visual storytelling.
• Excellent design sensibility, you can build from existing systems or create new ones.
• A portfolio that shows range: brand films, social animation, UI motion, and campaign work.
• Ability to take projects from concept through delivery with precision and creativity.
• A collaborative, curious mindset and a drive to push the work beyond the expected.

Why This Role Matters Motion is how our brand breathes. You’ll define the rhythm, personality, and energy that connect our brand across every channel, helping Engine create motion that feels alive, intentional, and unmistakably ours.

Applications for this role will be accepted through February 13th, 2026 or until the role is filled. We encourage you to apply early, as we may begin reviewing applications before the deadline.

Compensation Our compensation packages are based on several factors, including your experience, expertise, and location. In addition to a competitive base salary, total compensation may include equity and/or variable pay (OTE). Your recruiter will share your complete compensation package as you move through the process.

The Engine Edge: Perks & Compensation We believe in rewarding great work with great benefits:

• Compensation: Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with opportunities for bonuses, commissions, and equity.
• Benefits: Check out our full list at engine.com/culture.
• Environments for Success: Different roles have different needs in terms of the environments that drive success which is why we have a hybrid-hub model. Whether you are in one of our amazing offices or fully remote, we’ll make sure you have what you need to succeed.

Perks and benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and more.

Ready to Build the Future of Work Travel? Join us on our mission to transform how work travel works—for businesses, for travelers, and for the industry. Apply now and let’s make travel simpler, smarter, and more enjoyable—together.