Animator & Motion Graphics Designer

Department: Marketing

Location: Remote, Remote

Employment Type: FullTime

About PostHog

PostHog is your product’s context layer. It ingests and stores your analytics, errors, replays, and business data so you and your agents can query and act on it.

We launched out of Y Combinators W20 cohort. Weve since shipped more than a dozen products, including:

• A suite of analytics and observability tools, including product analytics, replay vision, AI observability, and error tracking

• PostHog MCP for users and their agents to query and act on their product and business data

• Data warehouse so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.

We are:

1. Product-led. More than 500K organizations have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.

2. Default alive. Revenue is growing incredibly quickly, and were very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on.

3. Well-funded. Weve raised more than $180m from some of the worlds top investors. Were set up for a long, ambitious journey.

Were focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible.

Things we care about

• Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook. Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions.

• Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on whats going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. Engineers lead product teams and make product decisions. Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed.

• Shipping fast: Why not now? We want to build a lot of products; we cant do that shipping at a normal pace. Weve built the company around small teams – autonomous, highly-efficient groups of cracked engineers who can outship much larger companies because they own their products end-to-end.

• Time for building: Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. Were a natively remote company. We default to async communication – PRs > Issues > Slack. Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days, and we prioritize heads down building time over perfect coordination. This will be the most productive job youve ever had.

• Being weird: Weird means redesigning an already world-class website for the 5th time. It means shipping literally every product that relates to customer data. It means building an objectively unnecessary developer toy with dubious shareholder value. Doing weird stuff is a competitive advantage. And its fun.

Why this role at PostHog now?

We have a strong brand and a lot of strong content for you to build on. What we dont have (yet) is someone whose whole job is making it move.

Youll be PostHogs first in-house video animator, and the creative engine behind everything that moves in our visuals.

We take video seriously (although we’re not really so serious). Our Video team ships documentaries, product launches, ads, social shorts, and more.

Right now, there’s no single owner of motion at PostHog, so the effort comes from several people, each with their own style, and most animation gets added at the very end of post-production. It doesnt move like one brand.

Your job will be to give it one. Youll be the creative engine behind PostHogs animated visuals. Your fingerprints will be on how PostHog moves, everywhere, but primarily in video.

This isnt a pure motion graphics role. We need someone who can also draw. Youll eventually design and illustrate your own assets as well as animate them, and sometimes you might even ship illustrations that never move at all.

Simply put, you care about the craft, have opinions about what makes animation great, and have a showreel that proves it.

What you’ll be doing

The work spans product launches, feature trailers, changelogs, social shorts, minidocs, animated ads, GIFs on our website, and even icons inside the PostHog app. One day you might be working out how the hedgehog walks; the next, rebuilding our UI in 3D for a launch.

Styles range from clean motion graphics to fully illustrated, character-led animation. If your showreel only has one style in it, this probably isnt the role for you.

We expect you to be:

• Defining how PostHog moves. Youll shape our motion and animation language more or less from scratch, and youll bring strong opinions about it to the table.

• Bringing the hedgehog to life. Our beloved mascot is a 2D, static hedgehog. Youll illustrate and animate it, and work out how it walks, reacts, and shows its personality in motion.

• Being the go-to person for motion in video. Documentaries, product launches, screen-recorded tutorials, changelogs, social short-form. Sometimes youll work hand in hand with Alex (Video Producer) and Lottie (Graphics Lead); other times youll take an animation-only piece from idea and script all the way to delivery on your own.

• Making our product look good in motion. Recreating and reimagining the PostHog UI in 3D space for screenshare-plus visuals, and animating icons that live inside the app itself.

• Building the toolkit. Animated logos, brand elements, lower thirds, transitions, and motion templates that make every future video faster to produce.

• Working beyond video. Motion for ads and campaigns, GIFs and animated icons for the website, and pure illustration work alongside our Graphics team.

Example public projects

• PopQuiz

• Changelog (in different styles)

• Hackathon documentary

• Small Teams

• PostHog in Slack

• Eggplant animation

What you wont be doing

❌ Executing someone elses storyboard frame by frame. Youll get briefs, not blueprints, and well expect you to have ideas of your own.

❌ Cutting full videos. We have editors for that. Knowing your way around an edit helps, but it isnt the job.

❌ Picking one house style and never leaving it.

❌ Making corporate explainers where a flat-shaded person waves at a laptop.

You’ll fit right in if:

• You’re advanced in After Effects, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Fresco is a bonus.

• You have a strong portfolio demonstrating technical excellence, a clear creative point of view, and a wide variety of styles (motion graphics, illustration-led animation, character work).

• You have illustrated / designed and animated motion graphics. You design and draw your own assets rather than only waiting for someone to hand you files to move.

• You originate ideas. Youve taken work from concept to delivery: come up with the idea, written the script or voiceover, then animated it.

• You’re a highly creative artist with strong personal standards for quality. You care about the craft.

• You have a strong opinion about what the best animated film of all time is, and are able to defend your decision to the death. (Its either The Incredibles or Coco.)

Nice to have

• You have created content for developer communities or technical audiences.

• Basic video editing. Enough to rough out how your animation sits in the cut.

• You have translated product UI / UX into animated assets.

If you have a disability, please let us know if theres any way we can make the interview process better for you - were happy to accommodate!

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