Senior Motion Designer (Contract)

Imagine being a teacher who hasn’t had a normal year of school since before the COVID pandemic; Khan Academy is uniquely positioned to help them when they need it most. An experienced Motion Designer who has helped to define the motion language and systems that speak to and support brands is needed. In addition to motion fundamentals and excellent taste, it is important that you have expertise architecting extensible and performant animation systems within Rive that support dynamic and flexible character animations that can react to user input or system data. This is a contract role for ~20 hours/week for ~6 months. Some of the things you will work on: Establishing motion language for Khan Academy (really breaking new ground!) that can make experiences shine for the multiple personas who use our platform. Collaborating with Product Designers and Visual Designers to explore areas of the classroom experience that would be most improved with tasteful motion–either by supporting an experience’s intuitiveness or amplifying a moment of success! Working with Engineers to define how Rive projects will consume data to influence and customize interactions (e.g. make a character jump, or smile, or swap accessories it’s wearing). Create in-app animations across multiple products. Documenting principles and process to leave a lasting mark on our fundamentals, including timing, style, and interactions! You will play a vital role on an inclusive, small but mighty design team, helping to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.