Motion Designer Fellow, Formation Bio
Summer 2026, 3 month contract
Compensation Range: $45.00 - $65.00/hour
3 days a week in office
End-to-end medical trial solutions
Be an early applicant
End-to-end medical trial solutions
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
Compensation Range: $45.00 - $65.00/hour
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.
Role
Who you are
- Strong portfolio showcasing motion graphics, animated explainers, or product demo work (portfolio required)
- Proficiency in After Effects; ability to animate from Figma design files a plus
- Experience with screen recording and demo capture workflows
- Comfortable with voiceover production and narrative scripting
- Proficient in Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or equivalent
- Sharp eye for storytelling, composition, and visual style
- Familiarity with social-first formats and platform-specific best practices
- Experience creating content for tech, life sciences, finance, or other premium or technical brands preferred
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with tight turnarounds
- Based in New York City and available to work on-site
What the job involves
- Formation Bio is looking for a talented Motion Designer to join our Brand team for the summer. This is a full-time, hands-on role for a creative who understands both storytelling and technology — someone who can translate complex product capabilities into compelling visual narratives for sophisticated audiences
- You'll work at the intersection of product and brand, producing animated explainers, product demos, and social-first content that brings Formation Bio's platform to life. You'll collaborate closely with our Head of Brand & Communications, Senior Manager of Content, and product teams to ensure every asset is accurate, polished, and resonant
- This role is a 3 month contract position, with full-time hours (or close to it) expected for the duration of the contract. Exact start and end dates are flexible
- Ideate — Develop original concepts for animations, product demos, and brand content aligned with our voice and aesthetic
- Animate — Create motion graphics and animated explainers that make technical concepts clear and visually engaging
- Demo — Capture and edit high-quality product walkthroughs and screen recordings, with attention to pacing, narrative arc, and visual clarity
- Produce — Own pre-production end-to-end: storyboards, scripts, shot lists, screen capture workflows, and asset coordination
- Edit — Own post-production including cutting, color, sound design, voiceover integration, and motion graphics
- Deliver — Format and optimize content for LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, and other relevant platforms
- Collaborate — Work directly with Brand, Content, and Product teams to ensure accuracy, brand consistency, and audience fit
Application process
- Resume
- Portfolio (link preferred)
- A brief note on your creative approach and what excites you about this role
Our take
Clinical drug trials are lengthy and expensive, delaying the supply of vital new drugs to patients and costing lives. For Formation Bio, this is an efficiency issue - one which it hopes to solve with its end-to-end automation solution.
According to the company, its approach has teams running medical trials twice as fast and at half the cost. This success has pushed Formation to expand beyond supporting trials into developing assets itself. In 2025, it reached a major milestone by licensing its first drug - a late-stage JAK/SYK inhibitor - to Sanofi in a deal worth up to hundreds of millions. Alongside this, the company has also added an early immunology program to its pipeline, signaling a broader push into in-house development.
Now a Unicorn, with partners including Pfizer, Sanofi, Novartis and 23andMe, Formation Bio is steadily embedding itself within the Big Pharma ecosystem. How far it can go remains an open question, but the prospect of cheaper drugs and faster innovation is becoming harder for the industry to ignore.
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Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2024
$372m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$156m
SERIES C
Total funding: $530.3m
Company benefits
- Flexible Time Off: We have a flexible PTO policy as we trust our team members to take the time they need to recharge.
- Parental Leave: We believe your personal life enriches your professional one. We offer 16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents so you can start or grow your family.
- Comprehensive Benefits: All full time employees have access to health, vision, and dental insurance. Additionally, we provide pre-tax commuter benefits, access to a 401k plan, short and long-term disability and life insurance.
- Education & Career Development Resources: Formation Bio offers a plethora of professional development resources to employees. Some examples include fireside chats with industry experts, conference passes, certification courses, internal mobility opportunities, in depth manager training, leadership coaching program, and more.
- Strategic Hiring Hubs: Formation Bio teams are hybrid and based in four key hubs: New York City, Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and North Carolina’s Research Triangle. Our bright and collaborative NYC headquarters is conveniently located near major transit hubs and stocked with drinks, coffee, snacks, and a weekly lunch.
- Community: Our teams collaborate closely to achieve our mission, supporting each other across functions and priorities. We build connection through team-building events, quarterly company gatherings, a company-wide retreat every two years, and Employee Resource Groups.
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Benjamine Liu
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a computational biologist at various Neurology departments, following a D.Phil in computational Biology and Psychiatry at Oxford. They are also an Advisor at Harvard Business School.
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