Visual & Motion Designer

Key Responsibilities:

• Design compelling visuals for digital platforms, ensuring strong composition, layout, and typography
• Contribute to and help grow the brand’s visual identity, maintaining consistency across all touchpoints
• Create motion design elements and animations
• Collaborate cross-functionally with different teams to align on successful visuals
• Utilize Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects) to develop and refine designs
• Stay up to date with design trends, tools, and best practices to continuously improve and innovate

Experience and Background:

• 3-5+ years of experience in visual design
• Strong understanding of layout, composition, and typography in digital design
• Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects)
• Expertise in motion design and animation principles
• Ability to own a task and manage multiple projects
• Ability to work collaboratively with other teams
• A portfolio showcasing visual design and motion work while being able to demonstrate a keen eye for detail
• Passionate about music and the industry

The salary range for this role is $95,000 - $120,000 annually. The final salary offered will be determined based on relative experience, skills, internal equity, and location. We also offer a generous total rewards program - read more about additional benefits and perks below! 

• We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)
• We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home
• We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard
• We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources
• Robust 401k program
• Employee Equity Plan
• Generous professional development allowance
• Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
• Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
• 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
• Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office

SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what’s next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry, and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status.

At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.