Midweight Motion Designer (m/f/d) — Music & Digital Brands

Lunar X WorkFromHome

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Your role

For our Berlin headquarters, we’re looking for a Midweight Motion Designer / Animator to join our team and create short-form animated content for our music brands.

This is a hands‑on animation role: you’ll be designing and animating characters, avatars, and graphics, bringing concepts to life in After Effects for ads and social platforms, while collaborating closely with the Head of Music and our Creative Lead. You’ll focus on creating engaging, playful and emotional animations that resonate with our audiences, often in children and family-friendly styles, and take full ownership of iterating and optimizing your work.

If you enjoy producing fun, versatile, character-driven animations and seeing them perform in real campaigns, this role is for you.

Key responsibilities

Create short-form animated ads and social content for our music brands
Animate characters, avatars, and graphic elements in After Effects
Turn existing designs and concepts into engaging animations and variations
Build multiple versions of creatives for testing (formats, hooks, pacing, styles)
Add and sync basic voice‑overs using AI tools when needed
Add captions/subtitles and prepare assets for paid media and social platforms
Adapt animations into multiple formats (9:16, 1:1, 16:9) and languages
Iterate and optimize existing animations based on performanceTest new visual styles, characters and storytelling approaches
Focus on happy, friendly, emotional, and accessible animation styles (often for kids / families / mood-based use cases)
Work closely with the Head of Music and our Creative Lead

What you add to our crew

2+ years of experience as a Motion Designer / Animator
Strong skills in After Effects (character animation, expressions, transitions, motion systems)
Comfortable creating animations from scratch – not just editing footage
Experience with short‑form animated content for ads or social media
A versatile style range (cute, playful, emotional, simple, clean)
A performance mindset: you care about what works, not just what looks good
Basic video editing skills (transitions, subtitles, voice‑over sync)
Independent, fast, and reliable execution style
Fluent in English (German is a plus)

No university degree required – portfolio and mindset matter more than formal education.

How to Apply

Please apply with:

Your CV
A portfolio or showreel (animation focused)

What it's like to be a part of our team

Lunar X is a future‑forward media company building and scaling digital‑first brands across multiple verticals. As part of this ecosystem, Music Labs has emerged as a fast‑evolving business unit focused on music‑driven digital products and audiences.

Music Labs builds and promotes functional music brands for passive listening – including sleep, focus, relaxation, and other mood‑based use cases. The team operates at the intersection of music, creativity, and performance marketing, releasing 100+ tracks per month and running large‑scale ad campaigns across Meta and Google to grow playlists and reach listeners worldwide.

We’re built by people who like to experiment, move quickly, and think outside the box. We’re a lean team with a low hierarchy and a strong bias toward getting things done – and we’re looking for someone who can jump in immediately and genuinely enjoys creating.

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