Motion Design Intern

About the Role

Purple Business is seeking a creative, AI-enabled Motion Design Intern with exceptional visual storytelling skills, a strong sense of animation and aesthetics, and the ability to create engaging motion graphics, product animations, and high-quality video content.

Key Responsibilities

• Create visually compelling motion graphics, animated advertisements, promotional videos, and social media reels.
• Design engaging animations for websites, mobile apps, product interfaces, and digital experiences.
• Develop product showcase videos, feature demonstrations, explainer videos, and brand animations.
• Use AI tools such as Google Veo, Runway, Kling, ChatGPT, and AI video generation/editing tools to accelerate creative workflows.
• Animate typography, graphics, illustrations, UI elements, logos, and other visual assets.
• Create high-quality video advertisements and marketing creatives optimized for Instagram, YouTube, and other digital platforms.
• Transform rough concepts, scripts, storyboards, and AI-generated visuals into polished, professional motion content.
• Collaborate with the founding team on product storytelling, branding, marketing campaigns, and creative experiments.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Excellent motion design skills with a strong understanding of animation principles, timing, pacing, transitions, composition, and visual storytelling.
• Strong proficiency in Adobe After Effects or equivalent professional motion design software.
• Experience using video editing tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or CapCut.
• Ability to create polished 2D motion graphics, typography animations, product animations, and promotional videos.
• Good visual design sense, including typography, color theory, layout, and brand consistency.
• AI-first creative mindset: Comfortable using generative AI tools for video creation, image generation, animation, editing, and creative experimentation.
• Ability to refine AI-generated videos and animations into professional-quality outputs.
• Understanding of modern social media content formats, aspect ratios, platform requirements, and audience engagement.
• Ability to independently conceptualize, storyboard, animate, edit, and deliver high-quality motion content.
• A strong motion design portfolio or showreel is mandatory.

Qualifications

• Naturally strong sense of aesthetics, movement, composition, and visual storytelling.
• Ability to create premium-looking animations and videos that capture attention and communicate ideas effectively.
• Passion for experimenting with the latest AI video generation and animation tools.
• Ability to work across product animations, marketing videos, motion graphics, and brand storytelling.
• Attention to details such as animation smoothness, timing, transitions, and audio-visual synchronization.
• Ability to combine traditional motion design techniques with AI-powered creative workflows.
• Self-driven, experimental, and excited to build creative experiences in a fast-moving startup environment.

Candidates with experience in AI-generated videos, animated product interfaces, motion graphics, and creative advertising are especially encouraged to apply.

A strong portfolio, exceptional visual taste, and demonstrated motion design ability matter more than academic qualifications or previous internship experience.