Motion Designer - Make Complexity Move
About Kestra
Kestra is the Orchestration Control Plane of the AI Era— a general-purpose, open-source workflow orchestration platform trusted by engineering and data teams at JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg, Apple, Toyota, BHP, Crédit Agricole, and Deutsche Telekom.
We just closed a $25M Series A (total $36M raised). 2 billion workflows were executed in 2025. ~30,000 GitHub stars. 25x revenue growth since Seed.
We don't build forms and dashboards. We orchestrate data pipelines, infrastructure automation, business processes, and agentic AI workflows at enterprise scale. Explaining that visually is genuinely hard. That's why this role exists.
Location: Europe - Remote
Type: Full-time
The Role
We're looking for a Motion Designer based in Europe to bring Kestra’s product and brand to life through movement. This role isn’t about making things look pretty; it’s about using motion to simplify the complex—turning high-level orchestration concepts into clear, engaging visual storytelling that engineers actually want to watch.
You will work deep in the Kestra product: animating UI interactions, breaking down technical workflows, and producing high-impact content for product releases, our YouTube channel, and global events. Motions will be a first‑class citizen across both our marketing and our product interface, and you will report to the Founding Designer while collaborating closely with our UX Designer.
What You’ll Do
- Translate complexity into motion—take intricate orchestration concepts such as DAGs, triggers, parallel executions, and event‑driven pipelines and turn them into animations that make sense at a glance, making a developer say “oh, that’s how it works.”
- Enhance the product experience—design and implement micro‑interactions and animated elements directly within the Kestra UI to improve usability and create moments of delight for technical users.
- Own high‑stakes video production—take end‑to‑end ownership of motion graphics for product releases, webinar intros, YouTube tutorials, and event teasers from concept and storyboard to final export.
- Work with a hybrid animation workflow—combine industry‑standard tools (After Effects, Adobe suite) with code‑based animation (CSS, Canvas, Lottie) for seamless web integration. Use AI tools (Claude, Cursor) to generate and tweak animation code when they accelerate the workflow.
- Push the brand forward—go beyond applying brand guidelines by proposing new visual directions, referencing cutting‑edge motion design, and keeping Kestra’s identity fresh without breaking consistency.
- Collaborate across the design system—to ensure visual coherence from documentation to dashboard, from landing pages to release videos by working hand‑in‑hand with the Founding Designer and UX Designer.
What We’re Looking For
Must‑have
- Proven track record across both marketing motion graphics (polished, narrative‑driven) and UI animations (functional, performant, purposeful).
- Expert‑level proficiency in After Effects and Adobe Creative Suite—understand timing, easing, and the principles of motion that communicate meaning.
- Strong design sensibility: typography, layout, colour; you design the scene, not just move objects.
- Technical literacy—fearless of complex products and eager to tackle them creatively.
- Autonomy in a remote, async environment—take a brief, ask the right questions, and deliver without constant hand‑holding.
- Fluent English—create content for a global engineering community.
Strong plus
- Coding skills: CSS/SVG animations, Lottie, Rive—web‑native performance matters.
- Open source DNA—experience working with developer‑tooling brands or OSS communities.
- 3D basics—Cinema 4D or Blender to add depth to product storytelling.
- Storyboarding—strong ability to sketch narratives before jumping into the software.
Why Kestra
- Series A company, moving fast—your work ships and gets seen.
- Small, senior design team—real creative ownership, not a ticket queue.
- Technical product with a genuine visual challenge—this is not a commodity design gig.
- Remote‑first with a strong engineering culture.
- Open‑source community of ~30K developers who will watch, use, and share what you make.