Rive Motion Designer and Animator (Contract-to-Hire)

Rilla Inc.

Job Overview

Location

New York City

Job Type

Contract

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Design and animate intuitive, playful, and rewarding UI motion experiences for Rilla’s mobile and desktop applications, aligning with the brand’s dynamic energy and art style.
• Build and expand Rilla’s character universe through AI-powered prompting and creative iteration, prioritizing video generation tools over traditional rigging, lighting, and shader pipelines.
• Create production-ready animations using Rive, Lottie, and After Effects, ensuring technical precision and performance optimization for web and mobile platforms.
• Collaborate directly with engineering, product, and design teams to implement animations that enhance user engagement, drive retention, and inspire customers to celebrate their progress.
• Extend Rilla’s motion design language beyond the app into marketing creative, website elements, and key brand moments to ensure consistent, immersive brand expression.
• Integrate motion with sound and haptic feedback to create cohesive, multi-sensory user experiences that deepen emotional connection and product delight.
• Experiment constantly with emerging AI tools and animation software to innovate workflows and push the boundaries of what product experiences can achieve.
• Translate game design principles into product interactions, crafting animations that are addictive, rewarding, and fun—mirroring the engagement mechanics of top consumer gaming platforms.
• Maintain impeccable taste and brand intuition, ensuring all motion design aligns with Rilla’s mission to index the offline world through joyful, human-centered experiences.
• Work in a high-autonomy, high-expectation environment where failure is viewed as a learning opportunity and rapid feedback is essential to growth.
• Deliver animations that actively motivate users to hit their goals, with a focus on real-world impact rather than vanity metrics.
• Adapt quickly to evolving product needs, iterating on animations based on customer behavior, team input, and performance data.
• Maintain a portfolio showcasing diverse animation styles, technical excellence, and experience in interactive media or game development.
• Embrace extreme empathy by designing for non-tech users who operate in the real world, ensuring accessibility and emotional resonance in every animation.
• Contribute to a culture of relentless curiosity, customer obsession, and extreme accountability, where learning and growth are prioritized over perfection.

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in motion design, interactive media, or game development, or a strong portfolio of personal projects demonstrating diverse styles and technical excellence
• Proficiency in Rive, Lottie, and After Effects with hands-on experience in production-ready animations
• Skilled in bringing characters to life using AI-powered prompting and video generation tools, minimizing reliance on traditional rigging pipelines
• Experience collaborating with engineers on animation implementation, understanding technical constraints and optimization

🏖️ Benefits

• Contract role with potential for full-time conversion to an in-person position in New York City
• Competitive hourly rate of $60–$100/hr
• Opportunity to work on a product used by over 1,000 enterprise customers including The Home Depot, KKR, and PulteGroup
• Exposure to cutting-edge AI-augmented design workflows and tools

Skills & Technologies

Design

Remote

$60-100/hr

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About Rilla Inc.

Rilla is a technology company that provides a platform for consumer insights and market research. Their AI-powered solution analyzes unstructured consumer feedback from various sources, such as reviews, surveys, and social media, to uncover actionable trends and sentiment. This enables businesses to understand their customers better, identify product improvement opportunities, and make data-driven strategic decisions. Rilla operates in the market intelligence and customer analytics space, serving industries that rely heavily on understanding consumer behavior and preferences to maintain a competitive edge.

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