Senior Product Designer, Motion

Underdog is a rapidly growing sports company focused on creating engaging products for sports fans. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer specializing in motion design to enhance user interactions and experiences through effective motion principles and guidelines.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate on and lead motion design across the product: define principles, patterns, and guidelines for interaction and UI motion
• Design high-quality microinteractions (transitions, state changes, loading/empty states, feedback, onboarding moments) that improve usability and delight
• Prototype early and often using motion-forward tools to explore interaction models and validate concepts quickly
• Partner deeply with engineers to ensure motion is implemented accurately, efficiently, and accessibly; provide specs and support QA
• Create reusable motion components and contribute to the design system (tokens, curves/easing, durations, choreography rules)
• Improve product comprehension with motion that communicates hierarchy, cause/effect, and status (errors, success, progress, latency)
• Use research and data to evaluate motion effectiveness (comprehension, conversion, time-to-complete, error reduction)
• Mentor designers and up-level motion craft across the team via reviews, critiques, and workshops
• Collaborate with Brand/Marketing when needed to ensure motion feels cohesive across product and storytelling surfaces

Requirements:

• 3-5 years of product design experience, with strong motion design emphasis in shipped digital products
• A portfolio showcasing interaction design + motion craft with clear problem framing, process, and outcomes
• Expert understanding of timing, easing, choreography, and narrative flow for UI motion
• Strong systems thinking: ability to create scalable patterns rather than one-off animations
• Deep collaboration skills with engineering; comfort discussing implementation constraints (performance, platform behaviors, rendering)
• Fluency in accessibility and inclusive design, including reduced motion strategies and motion-sensitivity considerations
• Excellent communication: you can explain why motion choices matter and align stakeholders around tradeoffs
• Experience working across web and/or mobile platforms (iOS/Android) in cross-functional teams
• Experience building or maintaining a motion system within a design system (tokens, guidelines, governance)
• Familiarity with implementation frameworks (e.g., Rive, Lottie, After Effects pipelines, CSS/JS animations, Framer Motion) or platform-native approaches
• Experience with complex product areas (data-heavy UI, sports gaming, finance)
• Comfort with metrics-driven iteration and experimentation