Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
ElevenLabs sits in a distinct corner of the SaaS ecosystem where the product is an API and platform for generative audio, used by both individual creators and businesses. That kind of usage mix tends to demand clear product storytelling across web and mobile, while also translating technical capabilities into understandable workflows. A Motion Designer here is positioned close to the product surface area where adoption and comprehension are often shaped.
For a SaaS career, this role offers durable experience in building motion as part of a product system rather than standalone marketing assets. Work on a motion design system, embedded UI animations, and QA for implementation handoff maps directly to how modern SaaS teams scale consistency across releases. Collaboration with design, video, and audio functions also reflects the cross-functional operating model common in product-led software companies.
This role suits motion designers who prefer craft paired with systems thinking, and who enjoy moving between narrative work and in-product interaction details. It will likely appeal to professionals comfortable working autonomously and iterating from early script and storyboard stages through to production-ready assets. Interest in AI-enabled creative tooling and accessibility-aware motion principles would align naturally with the problem space described.
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Job Description
About ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology.
We launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses - from fast-growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors are some of the world's most prominent, including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We've raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $11B - multiples of 11, always.
We have expanded from voice into three main platforms:
ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale.
ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages.
ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models.
Everything we do is the result of the creativity and commitment of our team - builders doing the best work of their lives. We are researchers, engineers, and operators. IOI medalists and ex-founders. If you want to work hard and create lasting positive impact, we want to hear from you.
How we work
High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy.
Impact not job titles: We don’t have job titles. Instead, it’s about the impact you have. No task is above or beneath you.
AI first: We use AI to move faster with higher-quality results. We do this across the whole company—from engineering to growth to operations.
Excellence everywhere: Everything we do should match the quality of our AI models.
Global team: We prioritize your talent, not your location.
What we offer
Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
Growth paths: Joining ElevenLabs means joining a dynamic team with countless opportunities to drive impact - beyond your immediate role and responsibilities.
Learning & development: ElevenLabs proactively supports professional development through an annual discretionary stipend.
Social travel: We also provide an annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year, however you choose.
Annual company offsite: Each year, we bring the entire team together in a new location - past offsites have included Croatia and Italy.
Co-working: If you’re not located near one of our main hubs, we offer a monthly co-working stipend.
This role is remote, so it can be executed globally. If you prefer, you can work from our offices in New York, London and Warsaw.
About ElevenLabs
At ElevenLabs, we are pioneering voice technology with our cutting-edge research and products.
We launched in January 2023 and have since reached over 1 million users globally and have partnered with the world’s biggest names (see customer stories). We have closed our Series-B funding at 1.1B valuation earlier this year and are backed by the leading names in tech and AI (Nat Fridman, Daniel Gross, Andreessen Horowitz, Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, Oculus VR co-founder Brendan Iribe, Deepmind & Inflection co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, and many others).
We are at an exciting phase of our growth and innovation and are looking for ambitious people to help us further push the boundaries of voice AI. This is a rare chance to be an early member of a company on the rise. If this excites you, we want to meet you!
Who we are
A global team of passionate and innovative individuals united by curiosity and a shared goal: to be the first choice for AI audio solutions. Together, we are shaping a new technology and market from the ground up. We innovate quickly and take pride in getting things right, from the big picture initiatives to the details that keep us moving smoothly every day. We work with high autonomy and accountability where the best idea wins at any time and from anyone.
About the role
The Design team at ElevenLabs is crafting experiences for the next generation of audio workflows using generative AI. You'll work in entirely new and unexplored problem spaces, like crafting experiences around voice cloning that will allow people to generate content in realistic voices, languages, and accents, to create universally accessible content, safely. You'll reimagine how creative teams craft sounds just by describing them, and how they bring it all together in one AI-first generative audio platform. The work here has the potential to revolutionize workflows for creators to media and entertainment, publishing giants, to defining entirely new spaces like conversational AI companies.
As a Motion Designer, you'll contribute to our mission, vision, and strategy by creating stunning visuals and motion graphics that simplify complex interactions and solve challenging design problems. You'll work closely with our video and design team to imagine the best way to tell our product stories in a captivating way, from the early inception of a script to storyboarding how the script comes to life, to the final videos and assets that need to be produced for us to share.
You will work with our Video, Comms, and Design teams to successfully communicate, evolve, and execute a strong motion design standard that showcases ElevenLabs as an innovator in the generative AI audio space. You are a crucial component of our company's growth and product launches through your contributions to short and long-term strategic direction, creating and maintaining high visual standards and a strong focus on user needs. You have an owner's mentality, taking pride in your work and in your team's work, and view what you do as a part-owner and builder of ElevenLabs.
You will work closely with Justin Hackney, Jack Maltby, Sam Sklar, and Ammaar Reshi.
Key responsibilities
Develop a user-centric Motion Design System that scales to both our mobile & web products
Work closely with our video and audio teams to bring scripts to life
Partner with design to animate assets that can be embedded into the product experience
QA work to ensure designs and creative assets are polished, on brand, and ready for implementation handoff or final delivery
Efficiently execute to ship products that deliver impact for our business and customers
Who you are
We're looking for exceptional individuals who combine technical excellence with ethical awareness, who are excited by hard problems and motivated by human impact. You’ll strive with us if you:
Are passionate about audio AI driven by a desire to make content universally accessible and breaking the frontiers of new tech.
Are a highly motivated and driven individual with a strong work ethic. Our team is aware of this critical moment of audio AI evolution and is committed to going the extra mile to lead.
Are analytical, efficient, and strive on solving complex challenges with a first principles mindset.
Consistently strive for excellence, delivering high-quality work quickly and exceeding expectations.
Take initiative and work autonomously from day one, prioritizing learning and contribution while leaving ego aside.
What you bring
We do not require any formal experience, certifications, or degrees. Instead, we are seeking enthusiastic motion designers who can showcase solving impressively hard problems with artifacts such as past projects and designs. Even directly sharing a rough demo reel of your work is a great way to show us your craft! We do require:
5+ years of motion design experience in a product setting
Self-directed, solution-oriented, and ability to work autonomously
Thrives in a fast-paced (sometimes ambiguous) environment
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to use motion to narrate user experience based on users' behaviors, needs, and emotions
Exceptional process thinker and problem solver
Demonstrates a strong foundation in basic animation principles, often related to physics and patterns
Master in After Effects and Figma
Creative thinking toward establishing and executing on the vision for team initiatives
Challenge the status quo, push innovation and inspire people toward a unified outcome
Nice to haves
Experience with other animation apps such as Rive and Lottie
Demonstration of inclusive motion principles and interest in accessibility best practices
Exceptional collaboration skills and ability to partner with cross-functional partners, to drive towards successful outcomes
Ability to get in the weeds with your engineering partners and make sense of technical constraints, while still pushing forward and maintaining a high design bar and level of execution
What we offer
High-velocity innovation: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy.
A truly global team: Collaboration with teammates across 30+ countries, a global customer footprint and office hubs in New York, London and Warsaw. Annual company offsite for the whole team to get together (the last one in Croatia!)
Remote first: We prioritize your talent, not your location, with structured asynchronous workflows for maximum impact and minimal meetings.
Continuous growth: Collaborate with AI leaders, shape your path, and contribute where you excel most.
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