Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Motion design is increasingly a systems problem in SaaS-adjacent production environments, where creative output has to scale across channels, formats, and rapid iteration cycles. This freelance pool stands out because it is explicitly oriented around automation and templatisation—work that sits at the intersection of brand craft and operational repeatability, and is becoming a core capability for subscription businesses with always-on marketing demands.
For a SaaS career path, the durable value here is learning how to turn motion from “one-off deliverables” into reusable infrastructure. Experience with dataset-driven versioning, expression-based templates, and workflow tooling builds fluency in the same optimisation mindset that underpins SaaS growth loops: reduce manual effort, standardise quality, and increase throughput without sacrificing consistency. Those skills transfer well across in-house SaaS creative teams, agencies serving SaaS, and creative operations functions.
This role is best suited to motion designers who enjoy technical problem-solving as much as animation polish, and who prefer documenting, iterating, and troubleshooting production systems. It will also fit professionals comfortable integrating into established pipelines and collaborating asynchronously with cross-functional partners like Creative Ops and Automation.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
At Superside, we’re building a network of world-class freelancers with deep automation and templatisation expertise to support our creative teams during period of high-volume production.
We’re looking for versatile Freelancer Motion Designers who can plug into our workflows with speed, precision, and creative excellence and know how to systematize motion production at scale using tools like Storyteq, CompsFromSpreadsheets, expressions-driven templates, and CSV-based workflows.Joining this pool means you’ll go through a light vetting process so we know you’re ready to jump in when opportunities open.
We keep our roster small and selective to ensure quality, and we’re committed to building long-term, collaborative relationships.
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What You'll Do- Design, optimize, and maintain scalable motion templates for high-volume production across social, digital, and campaign assets.
- Create Storyteq templates, including parameter mapping, asset structuring, variable fields, logic setup, and ensuring seamless ingest of CSV/XML data.
- Use compsfromspreadsheets (or similar tools) to drive automated asset generation from structured datasets.
- Design and animate motion graphics with polished, brand-consistent execution when automation isn’t required.
- Collaborate with Superside’s Motion, Creative Ops, and Automation teams to define efficient workflows, identify automation opportunities, and improve template performance.
- Implement expressions, rigging systems, and best-practice templatisation for reusability, consistency, and speed.
- Troubleshoot file structure, render issues, dynamic text layout challenges, and automation edge cases.
- Balance creativity and efficiency to deliver high-quality work on tight timelines.
What You'll Bring- 5+ years of experience in motion design, including real experience creating automated or templated motion systems for large-scale production.
- Proven expertise in After Effects templatization, including:
- Efficient file structuring
- Expression-driven automation
- Precomp rigging
- Dynamic text, layout, and replacement workflows
- Hands-on experience with Storyteq (required or strongly preferred):
- Building modular templates
- Using datasets (CSV/XML)
- Creating logic-based behaviours
- Understand templating best practices
- Troubleshooting automated rendering workflows
- Familiarity with tools like compsfromspreadsheets, dataclay templater, or similar spreadsheet-to-composition automation solutions.
- Strong knowledge of After Effects, expressions (JavaScript), and templated production pipelines.
- Ability to work with brand guidelines and adapt them for efficient automated output.
- Clear, proactive English communication - able to document setups, surface risks, and collaborate efficiently in a remote environment.
Bonus For- Advanced Storyteq certification or deep platform experience
- Scripting (ExtendScript, AE scripting, templating logic)
- AI-driven motion workflows or generative motion tools
- Rive, Lottie, or interactive motion systems
- Experience building scalable motion toolkits or brand motion systems
- Understanding of Creative Ops, QA for Motion Automation, or multi-format distribution workflows
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Why Join us?
Superside's vision is to create equal opportunities globally by accelerating the world’s transition to online work. With that in mind, we're building a fully remote company that attracts people where they are.
Remote-first. Customer-led.
Remote isn’t just a perk; it’s how we deliver better for customers. We are fully committing to our customers by hiring top talent and collaborating seamlessly across time zones.
Global team, local impact.
Join a community of 60+ nationalities working across time zones, cultures, and disciplines, all aligned on doing great work for great brands.
High performance, low ego.
Work in a fast-paced, high-trust environment where feedback is direct, growth is constant, and kindness leads collaboration.
Impact meets opportunity.
We’re in the sweet spot — big enough to be stable, small enough for you to shape what’s next. Your ideas will matter here.
Grow fast. Lead well.
You’ll gain mentorship, take on real responsibility, and grow your career while helping us disrupt a global industry.
About Superside
Superside is the leading AI-powered creative company that quickly and cost-effectively enhances in-house functions. We help over 500 ambitious brands get great creative concepts done at scale. Built to be an extension
of in-house teams, we unbottleneck marketing and creative teams so they can move faster and drive more reliable creative performance.
Superside is a fully remote company with over 700 team members working across 60+ countries and 13 timezones.
Learn more at superside.com
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We’re an equal-opportunity company. All applicants will be considered regardless of ethnicity, appearance, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran or disability status.
