Motion Graphic Specalist @ vidrush

JOB POSTING
Motion Graphics Template Specification Writer
Template Design & PRD Author — Template Team
Department:
Template Team — Motion Graphics System
Reports To:
CEO / Head of Product
Location:
Remote (Global)
Type:
Full-Time Contract
Compensation:
Competitive — Based on Experience



About VidRush
VidRush is an AI-powered video editing platform that generates fully edited, professional-quality YouTube videos from a single text prompt. Our system uses a library of motion graphic templates — lower thirds, title cards, stat overlays, transitions, text animations, list animations, data visualisations, and complex animated sequences — to give every video a polished, custom-edited feel. Our quality benchmark is a $100 Fiverr/Upwork edit: every video we produce should look like it was made by a skilled human editor with taste and editorial judgment.
The template library is the backbone of VidRush’s visual identity system. Templates are pre-built motion graphic compositions that accept configurable inputs (text, colours, images, animation variants) through structured schemas. They are coded by our developer team in Remotion (a React-based video rendering framework) and styled dynamically using each channel’s Brand Config so that no two channels ever look the same. Our target is a library of 1,000+ templates across every common motion graphic category, with multiple visual variations of each, making it virtually impossible for viewers or YouTube’s content reviewers to identify a “template fingerprint” across different VidRush channels.


What This Role Is
This is not a traditional motion graphics job. You are not producing final deliverables for clients or rendering video for social media. Instead, you are the creative architect who designs motion graphics and then translates them into extremely detailed written specifications — what we call Template PRDs (Product Requirement Documents) — that our developer team uses to build the templates in code.
Think of it this way: you design the motion graphic in After Effects (or your tool of choice), and then you write a technical blueprint of that design so detailed that a developer who has never seen the original animation can recreate it perfectly in Remotion. Every layer, every keyframe, every easing curve, every blend mode, every pixel offset, every font weight, every animation phase — all of it documented with precision.
The PRDs you write are essentially motion graphics explained to AI and developers. They are structured Google Docs that break down a motion graphic composition into its atomic components: the layer stack from front to back, the exact animation timeline with frame-accurate phases, keyframe data with cubic-bezier easing strings, typography specifications, shape geometries, visual effects parameters, matte and masking logic, and developer translation notes. These documents are the single source of truth that the template development team works from.
Your Day-to-Day
On a typical day, you will open After Effects (or your preferred motion graphics tool), design a template or variation, and then write the corresponding PRD in a Google Doc following VidRush’s established specification format. You will be working across multiple template categories: title cards, lower thirds, bullet-point overlays, stat counters, comparison layouts, list animations, call-to-action graphics, transitions, text overlays, image annotation overlays, and more. For each template, you will also be responsible for designing visual variations — alternative looks, colour treatments, layout rearrangements, or animation styles that share the same underlying schema but look distinctly different. Once a developer has coded your PRD into a working Remotion template, you will review their output against your original design and provide feedback until the template matches your specification.


What a Template PRD Contains
Each PRD you produce follows a standardised structure. Below is a summary of the sections you will be writing for every single template and variation:
Core Metadata: Template name, category, complexity rating, resolution (1920×1080), frame rate (30fps), total duration in frames and seconds.
Visual Reference: A reference animation file (.mp4) and/or frame screenshots showing the animation progression and final hold state. You create these from your After Effects comp.
Layer Stack (Front to Back): Every layer in the composition listed in exact render order. For each layer: its type (text, shape, solid, footage, adjustment), its parent relationships, blend modes, opacity, matte/mask assignments, and a clear description of its visual purpose.
Animation Phases: The timeline broken into named phases (Entry, Hold, Exit, etc.) with frame-accurate start/end points. A narrative description of what happens visually during each phase.
Timing Breakdown Table: A structured table listing every animated property, its start value, end value, frame range, duration, and easing description.
Keyframe Data: The raw keyframe values for every animated property. Frame number, value (scale, position, opacity, trim path percentage, etc.), and the exact CSS cubic-bezier easing string for each segment.
Shape Specifications: For any vector shapes: geometry type, dimensions, stroke width, stroke colour, fill colour, dash patterns, line cap/join settings, and any path-drawing animations.
Visual Effects Detail: Parameters for every effect applied: Gaussian blur radius, chromatic aberration values, roughen edges settings, drop shadows (colour, opacity, direction, distance, softness), brightness/contrast values — with CSS or filter equivalents where applicable.
Typography Specifications: Font family, weight, size, colour, alignment, leading, and any text animator details (character-by-character reveals, staggered opacity, scale animations). Includes the exact font file mapping.
Matte & Mask Logic: Any track mattes (alpha, alpha inverted, luma) documented with which layer sources the matte and which layer receives it. Includes developer translation notes for how to achieve the effect in CSS/Canvas (e.g., globalCompositeOperation, mask-image).
Developer Notes: Specific guidance for Remotion translation: how to handle nested parenting, which properties must be animated via wrapper elements vs. direct transforms, mathematical centering offsets, and any gotchas.


Output Expectations
This is a high-volume production role. The template library is critical infrastructure for VidRush’s product and its growth, and we are significantly behind on where we need to be. The pace of PRD delivery directly determines how fast our developer team can build and how quickly we can scale toward our 1,000+ template target.
Weekly target: 30–50 completed Template PRDs per week as a baseline. 60+ per week is the preferred pace. This includes both new original templates and visual variations of existing templates.
Variations vs. new templates: A large portion of your output will be variations. Once a base template exists with its full PRD, a variation changes the visual treatment (different colour palette, different layout arrangement, different animation style, different texture/overlay) while reusing the same schema structure. Variations are faster to produce because the underlying animation logic and schema are already defined — you are changing how it looks, not how it works. Variation PRDs should take significantly less time than fully new template PRDs.
Stay ahead of the developers: You must be at least one to two weeks ahead of the development team at all times. The developers should never be waiting on you for work. If they are idle because there are no PRDs to build from, that is a failure state.
Daily posting: You will post completed PRDs daily in the team’s Slack channel along with the reference animation files. This is how the team tracks velocity and ensures continuous throughput.


Template Review Responsibility
Your job does not end when you hand off the PRD. Once a developer codes a template based on your specification, you are responsible for reviewing their output. This means comparing the rendered Remotion template against your original After Effects design and the PRD document, and providing clear, specific feedback on any discrepancies. This covers animation timing, easing accuracy, colour fidelity, typography rendering, layer ordering, effect accuracy, and overall visual match.
You are the quality gate between the PRD and the final shipped template. If a template does not match the specification, you flag it, describe what is wrong, and work with the developer until it does. This review loop is essential because the developers are building from your written description, not from the After Effects file directly — so the accuracy of your PRD and the thoroughness of your review are what determine the final quality.


Required Skills & Experience
Motion Graphics Design
Strong proficiency in Adobe After Effects. You must be able to design professional-quality motion graphics from scratch: title cards, lower thirds, text animations, transitions, stat overlays, list reveals, and other common video production elements.
A confident creative eye for layout, typography, colour, and animation timing. Your designs set the visual standard for VidRush’s entire template library.
Experience with common After Effects techniques: shape layers, trim paths, track mattes (alpha, alpha inverted, luma), parenting/null objects, text animators, adjustment layers, blend modes, and effects like Roughen Edges, Gaussian Blur, and Chromatic Aberration.
Ability to work quickly. You are not spending hours polishing a single hero animation. You are producing high volumes of clean, well-structured compositions at production pace.
Technical Specification Writing
The ability to look at a motion graphic you have designed and decompose it into a written specification with frame-level accuracy. This is the core skill of the role.
Comfort with precise technical language: keyframe values, cubic-bezier easing curves, pixel dimensions, hex colour codes, font metrics, trim path percentages, blend mode names, and effect parameters.
Methodical attention to detail. Missing a single layer, forgetting a blend mode, or misreporting a keyframe value means the developer builds the wrong thing. Your PRDs must be airtight.
Clear, structured writing. The PRDs follow a specific format with tables, layer stacks, timing breakdowns, and keyframe data blocks. You must be comfortable producing structured technical documentation, not just prose.
Workflow & Communication
Self-directed work ethic. This is a remote, high-output role. You manage your own time and consistently hit volume targets without daily supervision.
Comfort working in Google Docs, Slack, and screen recording tools. You will share your work daily and communicate async with the development team.
Ability to give precise, constructive design feedback when reviewing developer output. Not just “this looks wrong” but “the easing on the scale animation is too linear between frames 16–61; the original uses cubic-bezier(0.9,0,0.1,1) which should produce a fast start with smooth deceleration.”


Nice to Have
Familiarity with Remotion or React-based animation frameworks. Understanding how motion graphics translate to code will make your PRDs more developer-friendly.
Experience with CSS animations, SVG filters, or Canvas compositing. Several PRD sections include CSS/filter equivalents for After Effects techniques.
Background in video editing or YouTube content production. Understanding the end use case (YouTube videos with motion graphics) helps you design templates that work well in real editorial contexts.
Experience using AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, etc.) to accelerate workflows. Our developers use these tools heavily, and understanding their capabilities can help you write PRDs that are more AI-parseable.


What Success Looks Like
In Your First Week:
You have reviewed existing PRDs and the established specification format. You have designed and delivered your first batch of 5–10 template PRDs (a mix of new templates and variations). You are posting daily in Slack. The development team has started building from your documents.
In Your First Month:
You are consistently hitting 30–50 PRDs per week. You are at least one week ahead of the development team. You have completed review cycles on the first batch of developer-built templates and provided clear feedback. The team’s build velocity has noticeably increased because they always have a queue of PRDs to work from.
In Your First Quarter:
You are the creative engine of the template library. The library has expanded by hundreds of templates and variations. Your PRDs are consistently accurate enough that developer review cycles are short. You are proactively designing templates across new categories and identifying where the library has gaps. The development team never waits on you.


Why This Role Matters
VidRush’s motion graphics system is what makes every AI-generated video look professionally edited rather than auto-generated. The template library is how we ensure that every channel has a unique visual identity and that YouTube’s content reviewers cannot detect a “template factory” pattern across VidRush-produced videos. Without a deep, varied, high-quality template library, VidRush cannot scale.
You are the person who designs what these templates look like and writes the documents that make them buildable. Every template in VidRush’s library starts with your work. The speed and quality of your output directly determines how fast the product improves, how distinct each channel looks, and ultimately whether VidRush can reach its target of 1,000+ production-ready templates.
If you are a motion graphics designer who thrives on volume, loves the intersection of design and technical documentation, and wants to build the visual foundation of an AI product used by tens of thousands of creators, this is the role.


How to Apply
Send your application with the following:
Your portfolio or showreel demonstrating motion graphics work (After Effects preferred).
A writing sample or example of technical documentation you have produced. If you do not have one, we will provide a short test assignment: design a simple motion graphic and write its PRD using our format.
A brief note on your availability, timezone, and how you work best in a high-output remote environment.

— VidRush AI Studios LLP