Staff Motion Designer

At Harvey were transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI an enterprise-grade platform and deep domain expertise were reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.

This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. We have strong product-market fit and world-class investor support. Were scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious the bar is high and the opportunity for growth personal professional and financial is unmatched.

Our team moves fast takes ownership and is deeply committed to the mission operating with intensity staying close to our customers and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness Simplicity and Jobs Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information we believe simplicity is what scales and were never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive wed love to build with you.

At Harvey the future of professional services is being written today and were just getting started.

Harvey is hiring a Staff Motion Designer in San Francisco to define how motion shows up across Harveys brand product storytelling launch moments web experiences customer education and executive-facing creative work. The role should sit within Brand and Design reporting into Shawn Farsai whose current scope includes Brand Marketing and Creative leadership in San Francisco. This is a new senior IC role intended to raise the motion craft bar while still operating with the low-ego hands-on generalist posture expected of Harveys senior brand hires. The role should build on existing motion and brand hiring standards including deep portfolio review visible process cross-functional collaboration with PMM and Marketing and practical assessment of prioritization under ambiguity. The person in this role will help Harvey turn complex AI product ideas into clear memorable and reusable motion systems that can scale across product launches web surfaces campaign assets Academy or education assets events and internal/external storytelling.

• Own the motion design language for Harveys brand across launch videos product explainers web and campaign moments event assets social cuts sales enablement and other high-leverage creative surfaces.

• Create motion concepts storyboards styleframes animatics and final motion assets that make complex AI workflows feel clear premium and unmistakably Harvey.

• Partner closely with Brand Product Marketing Product Design Creative Operations and other GTM stakeholders to translate positioning product context and user needs into motion narratives that can ship quickly.

• Develop reusable motion systems templates animation principles and production workflows so Harvey can scale motion output without reinventing the wheel on every request.

• Use judgment to scope work appropriately across polished hero moments scrappy launch needs quick-turnaround edits and longer-term brand-system investments.

• Raise the craft bar for motion while remaining willing to do the unglamorous but important production work required in a fast-moving creative team.

• A strong portfolio of motion work that demonstrates storytelling art direction animation craft visual systems thinking and the ability to explain the process behind finished work.

• Deep fluency in motion design tools and workflows such as After Effects Figma Cinema 4D Lottie Rive code-adjacent motion or comparable production tools.

• Experience building motion for brand product marketing launch or education contexts ideally in a product-led technology company or high-growth SaaS environment.

• A demonstrated ability to simplify complex concepts visually without overloading the viewer including strong instincts for pacing sequencing hierarchy narration and accessibility.

• Strong cross-functional communication skills including the ability to clarify a brief align with PMM or Marketing goals handle competing feedback and prioritize multiple stakeholder requests.

• A staff-level ownership mindset: able to bring ideas shape systems operate through ambiguity give and receive feedback well and still roll up sleeves when the team needs execution support.

$157000-$235600

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Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race gender sexual orientation gender identity/expression national origin disability age genetic information veteran status marital status pregnancy or related condition or any other basis protected by law.

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Required Experience:

Staff IC