Executive IC, Design

Motion•Canada,

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

Motion is building the command center for creative strategists: an AI-native platform that bridges the gap between performance marketers and creative teams, so they can uncover what’s working, what’s not, and ship more winning ads across platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn, Meta, and TikTok. We’re at the forefront of AI as the foundation of Motion. Motion now automatically analyzes and organizes creative at scale, surfaces competitor trends, and is rolling out a persistent creative strategy agent that retains context, runs workflows, and integrates with the tools teams already use. Today, Motion is trusted by some of the world’s top e-commerce and direct-to-consumer brands and agencies (including Vuori, True Classic, The Farmer’s Dog, and HexClad) and has analyzed over $14B in media spend. When leading brands want to understand their creative performance, they turn to us. Our founders have built successful companies before, including alongside several of the people now at Motion. A number of teammates chose to build again here — a reflection of the trust, culture, and conviction behind what we’re building. The people building Motion are deeply embedded in where AI and our industry is heading, and obsessed with closing the gap between what's possible and what's actually shipping in product. We're a 70+ person team, having raised over $65M in total capital at a most recent valuation of $400M, with consecutive record revenue quarters and real momentum. If you want to work on a hard problem, with people who've done it before, and a product that customers genuinely love - we'd love to connect! We are looking for a design leader who misses making the work and wants to impact how Motion looks and feels by producing it, not approving it. This role is inspired by transitions like Jean-Michel Lemieux, the former CTO of Shopify, who joined a Series B startup as an Executive IC. If that's the kind of move you've been waiting to make, this is your seat.

Requirements

A strong track record in design, including leading teams and building systems used across an organization, along with the craft to still create exceptional work yourself.
A workflow already rebuilt around AI-powered design and iteration, where tools like Figma AI and Midjourney are a natural part of how you work.
Genuine cross-disciplinary strength across product, brand, and marketing design.
The mindset of someone who could start a company but would rather join one that's already moving fast.

Responsibilities

Impacting how Motion looks and feels across product, web, brand, and social.
Using AI tooling to produce what once required a team, then refining and elevating it through your own craft and judgment.
Setting the craft bar by example, so the quality of the entire team's work rises with it.