Motion Designer

Sarvam is building the bedrock of Sovereign AI for India. The company is developing Indias full-stack sovereign AI platform building across research models infrastructure and applications with a singular focus on making AI genuinely work for India. Sarvam works with leading enterprises and public institutions and is backed by Lightspeed Peak XV and Khosla Ventures. Sarvam partners with Indias leading brands including Tata Capital SBI Life CRED IDFC and LIC.

Sarvams brand is already an argument about motion it just hasnt been allowed to move yet.

The monogram is a gateway that emerges layered circles resolving out of mandala geometry into a single threshold form. The palette isnt a set of swatches; its a continuous run from blue to orange built to suggest progression and responsive state. Both of those ideas are about change over time. Both are currently being made mostly in stills.

We want the person who resolves that. Not someone to animate a logo once for a launch but someone who decides how this brand behaves how it enters how it responds how a gradient moves without becoming wallpaper and then builds that language across films web and product.

Its a rare brief: a real identity with real motion logic baked into it and nobody has run at it yet.

• Define the motion language not just the motion. Timing easing entrances transitions how the monogram behaves and how the gradient travels documented and reusable so the next fifty assets dont start from zero.

• Make the films. Model launches product announcements research drops event opens brand pieces. Concept board animate edit sound deliver youll own the shot end to end.

• Make the product move too. Web animation scroll behaviour UI micro-interactions demo and walkthrough videos. This is the half of the role that keeps the other half honest: motion that ships inside a live surface has constraints a film doesnt.

• Hand off cleanly to engineering. Lottie Rive sprite sequences or a spec an engineer can actually build from. Work that dies in After Effects doesnt count.

• Solve the hard one: visualising speech. Our products are conversational voice agents across 11 Indian languages code-switching mid-sentence. Showing listening thinking speaking and switching without falling back on a generic waveform is the most interesting motion problem in the building.

• Use AI properly in the pipeline. Generative video boards and previz roto upscaling variation. You should already be doing this with a clear sense of where it saves a week and where it costs you the shot.

• Work across the whole company. Design marketing product research founders. Rough briefs hard launch dates and work that still holds up at the end of it.

• 3 years in motion design in-house or at a studio with a reel that shows both narrative work and work that shipped inside a product or website.

• Deep After Effects. Shape layers expressions proper rigging not template-and-swap. Plus real editing chops in Premiere or Resolve.

• Figma is non-negotiable. Motion here starts inside the design system not beside it.

• Illustrator and Photoshop at working depth youll be building and cleaning your own assets.

• Fundamentals over flourish. Timing weight staging anticipation and how type behaves in motion. We will notice your easing curves.

• Native fluency with AI tools in a professional motion workflow and a point of view about it.

• System thinking. Evidence youve taken a static identity and extended it into motion or taken a motion system somewhere its guidelines hadnt gone.

• A real stake in this. You should care specifically about what Indian design deserves to look like in motion and be a little impatient that it mostly doesnt look like that yet.

• 3D Blender or Cinema 4D especially for abstract systems geometry and product visualisation

• Real-time or code-based motion: Rive GLSL TouchDesigner Houdini

• Sound design and mix or at least strong instincts about audio driving picture

• Indic typography in motion: animating Devanagari Tamil or Kannada without breaking the letterforms

Send a reel 90 seconds is plenty plus a breakdown of what you did on each piece. Three shots you own completely beat a beautifully cut reel of team work. If one of them had to survive a real constraint an engineer a file size a deadline a language you dont read lead with that.

Sarvam is a fast-moving high talent-density team building full-stack AI for India working on problems that push the frontiers of AI with real population-scale impact.

• Work alongside researchers engineers builders and business leaders who move fast and hold each other to a very high bar

• High ownership and high impact from day one

• Everything we do is AI-first from the way we build and ship to the way we think about problems

• You can work on problems that could change how an entire country learns works and communicates

If you want to work on problems at the frontier of AI in India Sarvam is the place to be.

Required Experience:

IC