Technical Motion Designer (UX Designer)

Job Title: Technical Motion Designer (UX Designer)
Location: Seattle, WA
Duration: 3 Months with possibility of Extension/Conversion

About the Role
Client’s Visual Systems team is seeking a highly skilled Technical Motion Designer to help create next-generation interactive motion experiences for Alexa product surfaces. This role combines motion design, interaction design, and engineering, requiring someone who can bridge creative vision with technical implementation using Rive technology.
The contractor will work closely with a team of world-class visual and motion designers within the Alexa Surfaces Visual UX organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and implement interactive animations using Rive across product surfaces
• Translate motion concepts into production-ready assets
• Own animation logic, state machines, and databinds within Rive
• Optimize animations for performance, scalability, and reusability
• Help define best practices for motion implementation using Rive
• Build tools that enable designers to modify Rive files at runtime
• Collaborate closely with design and engineering teams to integrate animations into real products

Daily Breakdown

• 75% – Interactive animation development and implementation using Rive
• 25% – Performance optimization, tooling, scalability, and reusable systems

Team & Environment

• Reports to the Visual UX team within Alexa Surfaces
• Collaborates with approximately 20 visual and motion designers
• Weekly 1:1s with hiring manager and daily team collaboration
• Access to prototype devices and participation in on-site design reviews

What Makes This Role Exciting

• Opportunity to work with world-class designers
• High-visibility creative projects
• Chance to build innovative motion systems and experiences
• Strong focus on expressive and interactive design
   

Required Skills & Experience
Must-Have Qualifications

1. Hands-on experience with Rive, including:
   • State machines
   • Advanced databinds and logic
   • Complex interactive animation systems
     (Minimum 1+ year of Rive experience required)
2. Strong understanding of animation principles:
   • Timing
   • Easing
   • Choreography
3. Experience integrating animation into shipped products in collaboration with engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with React, React Native, or similar frameworks
• Familiarity with tools such as After Effects
• Experience building reusable motion or design systems
• Interest in real-time, generative, or interactive animation
• Strong front-end development skills using JavaScript or TypeScript

Candidate Profile

• 7–10+ years of experience in motion design, UX motion, or interactive animation
• Able to work independently with minimal oversight
• Comfortable collaborating directly with engineering teams
• Creative degree preferred

  

At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's starting pay is: $50.00/hr.