Staff Product Motion Designer, Harvey
$192-259.5k
Offers bonus and equity
Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services
Open for applications
Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$192-259.5k
Offers bonus and equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help professionals develop expertise, faster.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in UI motion design, interaction design, and animation
- A strong portfolio demonstrating thoughtful motion design in complex product environments
- Deep understanding of motion principles, timing, easing, and how movement affects user perception, cognition, and trust
- Experience building or contributing to motion systems that scale across products and teams
- Fluency with modern motion and prototyping tools that translates to UI (ie Lottie and SVG animations)
- Ability to clearly articulate motion decisions and tradeoffs to designers, engineers, and cross-functional partners, and work closely with engineers on implementation
- Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces and shaping direction through experimentation and iteration
What the job involves
- As a Staff UI Motion Designer, you will define how motion shapes the experience of Harvey
- Motion is not an afterthought. It is a core layer of the interface that guides users, clarifies AI behavior, expresses system state, and reinforces confidence in complex flows
- You will partner with product designers, engineers, AI researchers, and brand to craft motion that is purposeful, scalable, and contextual across the platform
- In this role you will operate as both a strategic thinker and hands-on maker
- You will establish motion standards that scale with product complexity, advocate for motion’s role in user understanding and trust, and deliver polished animations embedded throughout interactions where language, AI reasoning, and user control converge
- Define and evolve motion principles, patterns, timing rules, curves, and easing standards that support clarity, trust, and comprehension of AI systems
- Design, prototype, and ship high-fidelity ui motion that clarifies system state, communicates progress, and reduces cognitive load in complex workflows
- Collaborate closely with product designers, engineers, and AI researchers to align motion with interaction intent and underlying system behavior
- Influence product and engineering to prioritize motion design within the roadmap
- Define and own motion guidelines and rules within the design system, including reusable components, documentation, and implementation guidelines
- Translate abstract AI behaviors such as inference, reasoning, waiting, confirmation, and error states into intuitive and legible motion
- Advocate for motion quality during design reviews and product decisions, balancing craft, performance, and scalability
Our take
The explosive popularity of generative AI tools has seen specialized solutions popping up for all kinds of industries. Hoping to help supercharge efficiency and productivity for legal teams, Harvey supplies generative AI that can assist with documentation, as well as aid research and optimize workflows.
Via natural language instructions, Harvey helps draft and analyze legal documents. It can also answer complex questions across large document sets, or even handle research queries that cover multiple domains in legal, regulatory and tax.
Its ability to support legal practitioners as if it's another member of the team is what makes Harvey particularly interesting. This approach has seen the company raise substantial funding, reaching Unicorn status in 2024. Funds are now being used to expand to new geographies, grow headcount and further collect and curate data to train more “domain-specific” AI models.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2025
$160m
LATE VC
Oct 2025
$59m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $1.0bn
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Winston Weinberg
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated with a Juris Doctor from the USC Gould School of Law, then spent 1 year as an Associate at O'Melveny & Myers before founding Harvey.
Gabe Pereyra
(Co-Founder & President)Previously worked as a Research Scientist at Meta and DeepMind. Also spent a year as a Brain Resident at Google.
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