Interactive Designer / Creative Developer (Web Animation & Data Viz)

We Are Rosie • New York, NY

4h • $80 - $95 • Remote

About The Position

Our client, a global alternative asset manager, is seeking a freelance interactive motion designer with front-end prototyping skills to help bring its corporate website to life. The role combines design and front-end development, with a focus on interactive data visualizations, scroll-based storytelling, parallax effects, and microinteractions. The designer will prototype experiences for handoff to the client’s in-house engineering team, ensuring animations are responsive, accessible, and performant.

This is a remote, project-based engagement starting at approximately 10–20 hours per week, with flexibility to scale hours up or down based on project needs. The engagement begins with a three-month contract. The client plans to grow this work in 2027. The freelancer must be comfortable working EST hours.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in interactive, motion, or web design, with a portfolio of live scroll-driven and interactive web experiences.
• Strong front-end prototyping skills in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Hands-on experience with web animation libraries such as GSAP/ScrollTrigger or similar.
• Experience designing interactive data visualizations or charts for the web.
• Expert-level Figma skills and experience working within an established design system.
• Understanding of performance-conscious and accessible animation, including reduced-motion preferences, frame rate, and layout stability.
• Experience handing off motion work to engineering teams with clear, detailed documentation.
• Comfort working independently and remotely on a flexible, project-based schedule.
• Must be comfortable working EST hours.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on Highcharts experience or experience with other charting libraries such as D3.js or Chart.js.
• Experience with Lottie, Rive, or other web animation formats.
• Experience with financial services, corporate, or investor-facing websites.
• Experience prototyping interactions in Figma Make, Framer, or Webflow.

Responsibilities

• Design interactive data visualizations for the corporate website, primarily using Highcharts.
• Design custom scroll-based animations, including scrubbed, triggered, and pinned scroll behaviors, as well as parallax effects and microinteractions.
• Create production-ready Figma designs at the client’s responsive breakpoints (1440, 1200, 992, 768, and 375px), using the client’s design system.
• Build functional, inspectable prototypes in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or tools such as Figma Make, Framer, or Webflow, demonstrating scroll behavior and scene entry and exit states.
• Write clear animation specifications for engineering, documenting the motion system, trigger points, scene-by-scene start and end states, durations, scroll distances, and easing.
• Partner with the client’s internal engineering team through handoff and implementation.
• Help estimate project timelines and level of effort as the work takes shape.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed