Motion Designer (Core Brand)

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About The Role The Creative Studio is Anthropic’s in‑house creative team responsible for the brand expression across Anthropic and Claude. We care about craft, making things by hand, and using AI when it makes sense. The team is growing, and we’re looking for people who do excellent work to join us. The stakes are real, and there’s room to shape what all this becomes. We are looking for a Motion Designer to help define and evolve our brand expression through movement and animation. This role is built for someone who can create outstanding motion work while developing the foundational approaches that make our brand instantly recognizable through thoughtful animation. Brand Design is a horizontal function that touches every part of how Anthropic and Claude come to life visually, from company identity to product brand and everything in between across mediums. The team introduces what's new and what's next, creating breakthrough creative work that sets the quality bar and then building the systems that let those ideas scale. Reporting to the Head of Brand Design, you'll join a growing motion practice alongside our illustration and brand design leads, partnering closely with designers, external creative partners, and cross‑functional teams across the company. The range of problems you'll work on is unusually broad, and the impact of your work reaches far beyond any single team. Responsibilities Create motion work that sets the quality bar and inspires others, including but not limited to product launches, marketing campaigns, and research releases Help shape and evolve our motion design strategy, developing foundational patterns that make our brand recognizable through animation Build and document frameworks and standards that help teams implement motion across the organization Guide and mentor others in motion design principles and practices, helping them develop brand expertise Partner with teams across the company to elevate motion design in their projects while maintaining quality Take ownership of emerging motion needs across product, events, and campaigns as the practice grows You May Be a Good Fit If You Have 6+ years of motion design experience with an outstanding portfolio showing both craft and systematic thinking Create high‑quality motion work while building repeatable patterns that others can learn from Can develop motion design systems and teach others to help scale our brand expression Bridge individual execution with strategic thinking about how motion supports our brand Thrive in collaboration with teams across the company, including product, engineering, research, and marketing Stay current with motion design tools and can recommend the right ones for different needs Balance creative exploration with practical constraints in a fast‑paced environment Are energized by the prospect of helping build a motion practice and growing your scope of ownership over time Annual Salary

$260,000—$305,000 USD

Logistics Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position Location‑based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices. Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas, but we cannot sponsor every role for every candidate. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and retain an immigration lawyer to help with this. Benefits Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. #J-18808-Ljbffr Menlo Ventures