Visual & Motion Design Intern (Hybrid)

Homebase•Denver, CO

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Hi, Future Homie! At Homebase, you’ll join a team that’s bold, fast-moving, and obsessed with helping small businesses thrive. We build with empathy, act with urgency, and take big swings that drive real-world impact. Here, every Homie shows up to raise the bar, support one another, and celebrate wins as a team. We’re not just building an app—we’re building unstoppable teams. So what do you say, are you in? This is a 6-month, full-time, hybrid internship based in our Toronto, San Francisco, or Denver office with mentorship from senior designers. 📍Your Impact Starts Here We’re looking for a talented Visual & Motion Design Intern to elevate the craft and polish of our product experiences across mobile and web. You'll work closely with product designers, engineers, and the design systems team to bring interfaces to life through purposeful animation, refined visual details, and pixel-perfect execution. This is a hands-on maker role. You'll create motion studies, UI animations, micro-interactions, and visual refinements that make our product feel alive, responsive, and delightful. Whether it's a subtle loading state, a satisfying transition, data visualizations, or a moment of celebration, your work will shape how our product feels across iOS, Android, and the web. These are the key ways you’ll contribute and create impact in this role:

Requirements

Strong portfolio demonstrating motion design, UI animation, and visual craft in product contexts across mobile and web
Proficiency in Figma and motion tools such as After Effects, Principle, Rive, Lottie, or similar
Understanding of animation principles, including timing, easing, spatial relationships, and choreography
Experience designing for both mobile (iOS and Android) and web platforms
Ability to translate static designs into fluid, purposeful motion
Attention to detail and a high bar for visual polish
Clear communication skills to articulate design decisions
Currently pursuing or recently completed a Master’s degree in Design, Motion Graphics, Animation, or a related field (preferred)
Candidates with strong formal training in visual/motion design are prioritized
Bootcamp-only backgrounds without formal visual/motion training are not a fit for this role
Portfolio demonstrating foundational motion and visual design skills (academic work welcome)
Eagerness to learn, rec

Nice To Haves

Experience with product design (not just marketing or brand motion)
Familiarity with platform-specific motion patterns for iOS and Android
Understanding of implementation constraints (CSS animations, Lottie, React Native, native animations)
Experience contributing to or working within a design system
Proficiency in Cinema 4D, Blender, or other 3D tools
Background in data visualization or information design
Experience using AI tools to improve design workflows or output

Responsibilities

Design and prototype motion patterns for key product interactions across mobile and web, including transitions, feedback states, loading indicators, component behaviors, and celebratory moments
Partner with product designers to add polish and refinement to shipped features
Create high-fidelity visual assets and ensure pixel-perfect implementation across platforms
Work across data visualizations, illustrations, micro-interactions, and UI transitions
Help establish motion principles, timing curves, and animation patterns that scale across our design system
Document motion guidelines and contribute reusable assets to our component library
Drive consistency in how motion is applied across iOS, Android, and web surfaces
Work closely with engineers to ensure animations are performant and implementable across platforms
Participate in design critiques and contribute to raising the bar for visual quality across the team
Act as both a hands-on motion designer and a conceptual contributor on projects
Create interactive prototypes to communicate complex interactions and validate design directions
Explore new visual directions and push creative boundaries on select projects
Consider every part of the experience, from motion to visual polish to implementation
Contribute motion and visual assets to the design system
Help define and standardize motion patterns that scale across teams
Assist in maintaining consistency across iOS, Android, and web surfaces
Experiment with AI tools (e.g., generative design, motion exploration, workflow automation) to accelerate design output and iteration speed
Identify opportunities to improve design workflows using AI and measure the impact on speed or quality