Motion Brand Designer
Job description
A Motion Brand Designer role at Douro Labs, creating animations, video and visual design for the Pyth and Douro Labs brands across digital channels, events and products. The role is production-focused with motion design at its core, split roughly 75% brand and 25% product initially.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Create animations and short-form video for social media, campaigns and partner announcements
- Produce motion packages for product releases, exchange integrations and major ecosystem events
- Turn complex ideas, like real-time market data, into clear and engaging animated stories
- Bring our website to life with animations and interactive moments in Framer
- Build reusable motion systems, templates and brand animation guidelines
- Adapt and resize motion assets across formats and platforms
- Design static social assets, sales collateral, internal communications and web content
- Apply brand guidelines consistently across all digital channels
- Create motion content for event screens, stage visuals and booth displays
- Design booth graphics, signage and printed collateral
- Coordinate with vendors and internal teams to deliver event assets on time
- Support the Product Design Lead with UI animations, micro-interactions, illustrations and visual assets
- Help keep visual consistency between brand and product surfaces
- Use any motion tool you like (After Effects, Cinema 4D, Blender, Rive, Lottie or others), as long as deliverables meet high standards and source files stay neatly organized in Figma using shared libraries
- Bring AI tools into your daily workflow to speed up production and explore new ideas
- Experiment with new tools and techniques and share what works with the team
- Help build templates and systems that make recurring motion work faster
What we're looking for
- Excellent motion design skills, with a portfolio that shows animation, video and brand-led motion work
- Hands-on Framer experience, including building and animating web pages or interactive prototypes
- Proficiency in Figma, with clean, well-organized files and experience working with shared libraries
- 3 to 5 years of experience as a motion, graphic or brand designer
- Strong generalist skills across layout, typography, color and composition
- A portfolio that shows range across digital and print
- An AI-forward mindset, using platforms like Claude and Firefly in your daily practice to explore new visual ideas
- Self-organization and proactivity, able to manage your own workload and deadlines
- Clear, warm communication: you take direction well and speak up with ideas
- A resourceful, experimental approach to problem-solving, and you enjoy figuring things out
Nice to have
- 3D experience (Cinema 4D, Blender or similar)
- Illustration and iconography skills
- Crypto, DeFi or financial infrastructure familiarity
Your team
Design
A well-rounded team: half tech whizzes, the other half excel in building partnerships with institutional clients, prime brokers and the global financial infrastructure community. The role reports to the Head of Design and works closely with the Brand Design Lead and Product Design Lead.
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About Douro Labs
A digital-first organization where remote work is the norm, with a team spread across the globe from the US and South America to Europe and Asia. The team is half tech whizzes and half focused on building partnerships with institutional clients, prime brokers and the global financial infrastructure community.
Mission
Define how Pyth Pro, our institutional offering for leading banks, trading platforms and global financial networks, looks and feels in motion, expanding the Douro Labs brand beyond Web3 natives into traditional markets.
Key facts
- DeFi / financial infrastructure
- Remote-first, digital-first organization
- Team spread across the US, South America, Europe and Asia
- Operates in the DeFi space
- Pyth Pro is its institutional offering for banks, trading platforms and global financial networks
What they value
- Craft and clarity
- Startup-level speed