Motion Designer

• About fonio
• We grew from $1M to $10M ARR in under 12 months and now serve 10,000+ customers.
• Fonio is Europe’s market leader for AI phone agents for SMBs. Now we’re expanding globally and into new products.
• We move fast, take ownership, give direct feedback, and avoid politics and unnecessary meetings.
• Join one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies.

Your Role

As a Motion Designer at fonio, you own the entire production pipeline for video content, from pre-production through animation to post-production including sound design. You do all of this yourself.

You work closely with our marketing team: the Creative Strategist provides concept and brief, the Content Creator shoots footage, and you turn that into animated, edited, and sound-ready final products that perform on Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and our website.

You take full ownership of the motion workflow end-to-end. We are deliberately not looking for a pure animation role that hands off to post-production. We want someone who understands that a great product video is half about sound.

Your Responsibilitites

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• Pre-production: concept sketches, storyboards, asset creation (vector graphics, visuals, UI mockups, screen recordings)
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• Animation: motion graphics for paid social (Meta, TikTok, YouTube), website, product showcases, tutorials, and internal formats
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• Post-production: video editing, cutting, pacing, color, transitions
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• Sound design: appropriate sounds, sound effects, music selection, mixing. You understand that sound is what brings product videos to life
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• Executing creative briefs, turning concepts into finished, performance-ready videos
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• Iterating based on performance data: what works, what doesn't, and why
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• Building a reusable motion asset library (templates, components, brand elements)
• What to expect
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• Full ownership over all of fonio's motion output, end-to-end, no handoffs
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• Direct impact on an ad spend budget of over €700,000/month
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• Close collaboration with the Creative Strategist, Content Creator, and Marketing Lead
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• Short decision-making paths, fast pace, real autonomy
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• Access to the latest AI tools for motion (Runway, Sora, Kling, etc.)

Who We're Looking For

Must-haves

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• 1–3 years of experience in motion design and animation
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• Native in After Effects. There is no motion design without AE, and you work in it faster than most people work in PowerPoint
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• Strong skills in a video editing tool (Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve, or comparable)
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• Command of the full production pipeline: pre-production (asset creation, concepting), animation, post-production (editing, color, sound design), all in one person
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• Sound design understanding. You know that a great product video is half about sound and can use effects and music to bring videos to life
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• Solid grasp of motion graphics animation principles (timing, easing, anticipation, weight)
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• Portfolio featuring digital and software product videos. We want to see that you can tell UI stories through motion
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• Fluent English, German at C1 level

Nice-to-have

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• Experience with Cinema 4D, Figma, or other design and 3D tools
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• Experience with AI video tools (Runway, Sora, Kling, etc.)
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• Background in performance creative environments (B2B SaaS, DTC, etc.)

What We Offer

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• €65,000–100,000 gross annual salary (depending on experience)
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On-site in Vienna

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• Relocation package (if relevant)
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• Top equipment and access to the latest AI tools
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• Direct collaboration with founders and a strong marketing team
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• A product that scales, and creatives you'll actually see live and track the performance of

Hiring Process

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• 15 min hiring manager intro call
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• 45 min case and technical interview (including a short motion task)
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• 20 min conversation on culture, expectations, and details