Motion Designer: Product, Brand & AI

Motion Designer:
Product, Brand & AI Experiences

Toronto / East Coast North America

Moderne is redefining how developers collaborate, remediate, and modernize large-scale codebases. As we expand our product and brand, motion is becoming a core layer of how users understand our technology — from micro-interactions in Moddy and Dev Center to expressive product storytelling across our platform.

We’re looking for a Motion Designer who can bring clarity, delight, and narrative to complex technical workflows. Someone who brings craft, curiosity, and systems thinking — and who loves exploring how motion and animation can make AI-powered experiences feel human, intuitive, and alive.

If you’re excited by the idea of designing motion across SaaS, desktop, marketing, and our Neo design system — you’ll fit right in.

• Shape the motion layer across SaaS, desktop, marketing, and our Neo design system
• Design micro-interactions, transitions, and animated states that make complex dev workflows feel simple and fluid
• Create prototypes for AI interactions, dynamic states, queue activity, and system feedback
• Contribute motion patterns to the Neo Design System to ensure consistency across SaaS and Desktop

• Build high-impact animations that explain complex concepts like multi-repo scalability, coding agents, code transformations, and modernization at scale
• Support launch videos, feature explainers, event visuals, onboarding experiences, and “unboxing” moments
• Use motion to communicate the magic of Moderne — from Moddy’s intelligence to our code transformation story

• Work hand-in-hand with product designers, engineers, and leadership to explore early concepts and bring them to life
• Translate motion into production-ready assets (Lottie/JSON, video, GIF, prototype sequences)
• Help define how motion integrates into our AI experiences, notifications, loading states, and product feedback loops
• Contribute to a culture of experimentation — exploring new tools, frameworks, and emerging tech

• A motion designer or VFX artist with 7–10+ years of multidisciplinary experience across product, experiential media, creative agencies, or post-production
• Someone with a self-taught streak — curious, experimental, and excited to explore new techniques
• Strong in both product motion (micro-interactions, transitions, UX clarity) and brand motion (narrative, expressive sequences)
• Skilled at simplifying complex ideas through movement, pacing, and visual rhythm
• Comfortable collaborating with product, engineering, and design partners in a fast-moving startup
• Energized by shaping systems — not just one-off animations

• Familiarity with Lottie/JSON, real-time motion, or lightweight web-based animation techniques
• Experience building motion within design systems
• Knowledge of Figma + After Effects, Blender, Cinema4D, or similar tools
• Exposure to generative AI tools for motion or VFX
• Understanding of developer tools or technical storytelling (not required, but a plus)

• You’ll own the entire motion layer across SaaS, Desktop, Dev Center, Moddy, Docs, and Brand
• Huge opportunity to shape the visual identity of a fast-growing developer tools company
• Work closely with Design, Product, and Engineering leadership to bring the Moderne vision to life
• A low-ego, highly collaborative environment where quality matters and experimentation is encouraged
• Influence the evolution of the Neo Design System with motion guidelines, tokens, and patterns
• A chance to define what motion means in the future of AI-assisted code modernization

Moderne is a developer-first platform that automates code remediation and modernization across large, complex codebases. Built on Open Rewrite, Moderne enables organizations to analyze and transform code at scale—across hundreds or thousands of repositories simultaneously. Teams use Moderne to eliminate tech debt, accelerate migrations, and improve software security and quality—with precision, speed, and confidence.

We’re backed by top-tier investors and trusted by some of the world’s largest financial institutions, tech companies, and government agencies.

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• Competitive salary
• Stock options:
  Substantially more potential upside than established companies can offer
• Health insurance, including dental and optical
• 401k match (up to 3%)
• Unmetered vacation