Full-Time

Motion Designer

Motion Design, Brand & Marketing

Posted on 9/15/2025

Air

Air

201-500 employees

Subscription-based digital asset management for marketers

Compensation Overview

$91k - $145k/yr

New York, NY, USA

In Person

In-office attendance required at least 3 days per week in New York City.

Category
Art, Graphics & Animation (2)
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Required Skills
Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe After Effects
Figma
Lottie
Video Editing
HTML/CSS
Requirements
  • This role requires in-office attendance at least 3 days/week in New York City.
  • Experience: 3+ years of motion design experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment (ideally in SaaS or tech startups).
  • Technical Ability: Highly proficient in After Effects, Motion, Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and/or similar tools and collaborative design workflows. Bonus for experience with interactive prototyping tools, Lottie/JSON animation exports, and basic CSS/web animation principles for seamless developer handoff.
  • Entrepreneurial Drive: You like to work in public, own problems end-to-end, and move with intentional speed - so your best ideas ship fast and make a visible dent.
  • Obsessed with Winning: Everyone at Air plays to win, says the hard thing, and progresses every day while building genuine relationships.
Responsibilities
  • Create growth-driving product videos
  • Create weekly product demo videos that support sales and marketing efforts.
  • Design modular product demonstration videos showcasing product capabilities
  • Create industry-specific demo content for DTC/Retail, Media & Entertainment, and Agency verticals
  • Develop animated explainer series demonstrating Air's ROI value proposition and competitive advantages over DAMs/cloud storage
  • Bolster organic and paid social with motion
  • Produce social assets to support our content calendar and help increase social engagement rates
  • Develop templated motion graphics system including animated intros, end cards, and interstitial elements for live-action video franchises, customer stories, and product demos
  • Design and refresh scroll-stopping social ads that communicate Air's "space to breathe" brand philosophy through motion
  • Help establish Air's product motion language
  • Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to develop a motion design system for Air's product interface. Improve user engagement and feature adoption metrics
  • Develop in-app motion graphics for feature announcements, onboarding sequences, and contextual tips that drive feature adoption
  • Design micro-interactions and animated transitions that improve users understanding of Air functionality
  • Conceptualize moments of delight through purposeful animations that reinforce Air's "space to breathe" philosophy within the product experience.
Desired Qualifications
  • Bonus for experience with interactive prototyping tools, Lottie/JSON animation exports, and basic CSS/web animation principles for seamless developer handoff.

Air Inc. provides digital asset management software that helps marketers and creatives organize, find, approve, and share digital content. Its core product automates asset organization, search, approval workflows, and sharing within a subscription-based platform, enabling teams to collaborate more efficiently. The company differentiates itself through workflow automation and a community-driven approach, offering a Beta and Research program where users test features and influence development, and by supporting social initiatives (donating 100% of merchandise profits to the Red Hook Initiative). Air Inc.'s goal is to boost productivity for marketing and creative teams while building a collaborative user community and supporting social causes.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$70.5M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2017

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Raised $77.7M across seven rounds, including $35M Series B in 2026 from Avenir Growth.
  • AI-native features like auto-tagging and 50+ image models boost marketing efficiency.
  • Intuitive upload forms streamline external partner content intake without accounts.

What critics are saying

  • Bytedance's free CapCut erodes subscription revenue as creatives switch within 6-12 months.
  • Adobe Firefly captures agency clients preferring integrated Photoshop DAM in 12-18 months.
  • Canto's superior search causes enterprise churn from Air's weak large-library versioning in 6-12 months.

What makes Air unique

  • Air automates asset organization, approvals, and AI editing in one visual workspace.
  • Smart Tags auto-tag uploads, reducing search time by 90% for creative teams.
  • Version stacking preserves context from ideas to approved channel-ready deliverables.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Home Office Stipend

Professional Development Budget

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

-2%
Complete AI Training
Apr 10th, 2026
Air CEO raises $70M betting AI won't replace creative professionals

Air CEO Shane Hegde published a handwritten letter in the New York Times arguing AI will never replace creative professionals, listing his personal mobile number for anyone who disagreed. This comes as his company has raised $70 million to build AI tools for creative teams. Hegde's central thesis: machines find patterns and recommend common answers, but lack the creative inefficiency and risk-taking that produces great work. He positions Air as automating logistics like file management and approvals whilst preserving human judgment in creative decisions. Founded in 2017, Air targets companies scaling creative output. Nearly all product resources have shifted toward AI-centric features. Hegde maintains humans will remain essential for the "zero-to-one moment" in creative work, though he acknowledges creative professionals face declining freelance rates as routine tasks become automated.

Ad Age
Mar 26th, 2026
Air debuts AI tools with handwritten ad saying they'll never replace creatives.

Air debuts AI tools with handwritten ad saying they'll never replace creatives. Last Updated March 26, 2026 10:00 AM EDT Air, the creative operations platform, is introducing new AI tools for creatives with a handwritten New York Times ad featuring a somewhat counterintuitive message: a mini-manifesto emphasizing AI's limitations.

It's Nice That
Apr 30th, 2025
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From these patterns, Yungbld has partnered with Air to help you understand your working style - so you can adapt, improve, and complement it, without reinventing yourself.

FinSMEs
Jan 9th, 2025
Air Secures $35M in Series B Funding

Air, a NYC-based creative operations platform, raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Avenir Growth, with participation from XFund, Good Friends, and others. The funds will be used to enhance workflow automation for creative teams globally. This round brings Air's total funding to over $70 million, with previous investments from firms like Tiger Global and Slack Ventures.

CityBiz
Sep 19th, 2024
Air Company Raises $69M Series B

Air Company, a NYC-based carbon conversion technology firm, raised $69M in Series B funding led by Avfuel, with participation from Lowercarbon Capital, IQT, Alaska Airlines, and others. Avfuel will join the company's board. The funds will be used to advance technology, promote energy security, and reduce emissions in sectors like aviation. The company has partnerships with major airlines and a $65M contract with the Defense Innovation Unit.

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