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Rive Designer Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Motion tools such as Rive or After Effects or similar for stateful interactions and micro ... Experience designing AI-powered, conversational, or assistive experiences, with a focus on clarity ...

Sr UI Motion Designer

Frisco, TX · On-site

$97.30K - $175.50K/yr

High Proficiency in Figma, After Effects, Lottie, Rive, Framer, or other motion graphics tool. * Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work closely with designers and engineers. * Excellent ...

Creative Technology Manager

New York, NY · On-site

$182.80K - $247.30K/yr

Proficiency with Rive for building UI and designing complex user interactions * A strong motion and design sensibility across 3D or 2D animation pipelines (Maya, Blender, Houdini, or Toon Boom, etc.

Creative Technology Manager

Pittsburgh, PA · On-site

$182.80K - $247.30K/yr

Proficiency with Rive for building UI and designing complex user interactions * A strong motion and design sensibility across 3D or 2D animation pipelines (Maya, Blender, Houdini, or Toon Boom, etc.

Solid frontend development skills with the ability to implement designs in TypeScript, React, or ... Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools such as Rive, Origami, Framer, or ProtoPie

You will oversee and mentor a team of Motion Designers while reporting to the Creative Director ... Awareness of real-time, AI-assisted, and code-based motion tools (Rive, Lottie, Cavalry, or similar)

Motion Design Director

Los Angeles, CA · On-site

$160K - $180K/yr

You will oversee and mentor a team of Motion Designers while reporting to the Creative Director ... Awareness of real-time, AI-assisted, and code-based motion tools (Rive, Lottie, Cavalry, or similar)

Motion Design Director

Los Angeles, CA · On-site

$160K - $180K/yr

You will oversee and mentor a team of Motion Designers while reporting to the Creative Director ... Awareness of real-time, AI-assisted, and code-based motion tools (Rive, Lottie, Cavalry, or similar)

Translate static designs into responsive, interactive, and polished web experiences * Optimize ... Familiarity with Webflow API, animations (Lottie, Rive), and No-Code tools. Nice to Haves * Ability ...

Senior Webflow Developer - Marketing Team

OR · On-site +1

$130K - $150K/yr

You will collaborate closely with designers, content managers, PMs, PMMs, and other developers to ... Familiarity with Webflow API, animations (Lottie, Rive), and No-Code tools. * Basic knowledge of ...

Senior Front-end Developer

Chicago, IL · On-site +1

$85K - $115K/yr

Working closely with designers, content strategists, and project managers, you'll turn designs into ... Experience implementing Lottie or Rive animations * Familiarity with TailwindCSS and BEM ...

Rive, Lottie), and optimizing transitions. * Deep familiarity with Figma, including translating designs into well-structured code. * Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to ...

Collaborate closely with designers, engineers, producers, and stakeholders to identify ... Familiarity with tools like Rive, Spline, After Effects, or Cinema 4D is considered an advantage.

Rive, Lottie), and optimizing transitions. * Deep familiarity with Figma, including translating designs into well-structured code. * Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to ...

We will provide support, both personally and professionally giving you access to a range of education and training opportunities designed to enhance your role. * Offer flexible work arrangements to ...

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How much do rive designer jobs pay per hour?

As of May 30, 2026, the average hourly pay for rive designer in the United States is $31.64, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $28.85 and $36.30 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Rive Designer, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Rive Designer, you need a solid understanding of animation principles, motion design, and proficiency in design tools, often supported by a background in graphic design or animation. Familiarity with Rive’s animation editor, vector graphics tools, and knowledge of integrating animations with code (such as Flutter or React) are typically required. Creativity, strong attention to detail, and effective communication help designers create engaging, interactive experiences and collaborate well with developers and product teams. These skills ensure the creation of high-quality, performant animations that enhance user interfaces and overall user experience.

What are some common challenges faced by Rive Designers when collaborating with developers and product teams?

Rive Designers often encounter challenges when ensuring their interactive animations integrate seamlessly with product development workflows. One common hurdle is aligning animation specifications with technical constraints, such as file size, platform compatibility, and performance requirements. Effective communication and early collaboration with developers are crucial for troubleshooting potential issues and iterating on animations that meet both design vision and technical feasibility. Additionally, clearly documenting animation behaviors and expected user interactions can help streamline the handoff process, reducing the need for multiple revisions.

What is a Rive Designer?

A Rive Designer is a professional who specializes in creating interactive animations and motion graphics using Rive, a real-time animation tool. They design and animate vector graphics that can be used in apps, games, websites, and other digital products. Their work often involves collaborating with developers and UI/UX teams to bring user interfaces and digital experiences to life through engaging animations. Rive Designers need a strong understanding of animation principles, vector design, and how to optimize assets for interactive environments.

What is the difference between Rive Designer vs UI Designer?

AspectRive DesignerUI Designer
Required SkillsAnimation, vector design, interactive prototypingVisual design, layout, user experience
Work EnvironmentDesign tools, animation software, interactive prototypesDesign software, user research, wireframing
Industry UsageApp animations, interactive interfaces, game UIWebsite and app interfaces, branding, user flows

While both roles involve visual design, Rive Designer specializes in creating animated, interactive graphics and prototypes, often for app interfaces and games. UI Designers focus on overall user interface layout, visual aesthetics, and user experience. Rive Designer emphasizes animation skills, whereas UI Designers prioritize layout and usability.

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Infographic showing various Rive Designer job openings in the United States as of May 2026, with employment types broken down into 54% Full Time, 31% Temporary, and 15% Nights. Highlights an 11% Physical, and 89% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $65,817 per year, or $31.6 per hour.
Senior Product Designer, AI

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO

Posted 7 days ago


Job description

WHO WE ARE
Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI-Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently. Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform - powered by one of the industry's largest proprietary databases and AI. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs. Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. To learn more, go to www.zetaglobal.com.
THE ROLE
We're building Zeta Developer Platform, our next-generation Marketing Operating System, and we need a Senior Product Designer who will be instrumental to its success. This role is a pillar position that bridges design and engineering to create the core foundation of the Agentic Apps Framework that will fuel our Zeta Developer Platform experience. You'll partner with our design system team, inform Model Context Protocol (MCP) improvements, and build the foundation-then scale-our Agentic and Vertical Apps infrastructure. You'll join at a pivotal moment where we're raising the bar on quality, speed, and innovation. We're looking for someone who can challenge us in the best way: bringing strong skills in AI, visual design, UX, motion, and coding to push our thinking forward and help us achieve what hasn't been done before.
This is a foundational role for a product that will define our company's future. You won't just be designing features-you'll be designing the core AI experience.
  • AI is central to how users interact with the product, not an add-on
  • Your work defines how users trust, understand, and rely on the Zeta Developer Platform every day
  • You're shaping a platform launching at Zeta Live 2026, with impact that compounds over time

THE TEAM
We're evolving how we work to reach the next level:
  • Vision over hand-holding leads to more creativity and innovation
  • Empowerment and delegation leads to more accountability and ownership
  • Strategy and clarity means less management, more impact
  • Challenge and growth creates better outcomes through healthy debate

We value people who bring ideas on what we should stop doing, start doing, or change to elevate our team.
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Design the Zeta Developer Platform Experience: Own and evolve the end-to-end Zeta Developer Platform experience, including conversational interfaces, contextual guidance, and AI-driven workflows that support daily user tasks across the platform.
  • Design Systems Partnership: You'll work closely with our Design Systems team to create, maintain, and evolve scalable UX and UI patterns for Zeta Developer Platform-ensuring consistency, quality, and flexibility as the platform grows and more teams build on it.
  • Partner Closely with Product & Engineering: Work as a core triad partner with Product Management and Engineering to define strategy, behavior, and execution-translating complex requirements and technical constraints into intuitive, human-centered AI experiences. Confidently present work, rationale, and tradeoffs to partners and leadership to drive alignment and decisions.
  • Advance AI Interaction & Explainability Patterns: Define how Zeta Developer Platform communicates intent, progress, confidence, and limitations-helping users understand, trust, and collaborate with intelligent systems.
  • Raise the Bar on Craft, Motion, and Interaction Quality: Lead by example through strong visual design, interaction design, motion, and prototyping-using motion and micro-interactions to communicate system state, reduce cognitive load, and make AI feel responsive and alive.
  • Scale the Zeta Developer Platform Experience: Identify opportunities to standardize UX patterns, documentation, and behaviors across Zeta Developer Platform-creating consistency while allowing flexibility where needed.

REQUIREMENTS
  • 8+ years of product design experience on complex platforms or systems
  • Experience designing and shipping AI-powered or data-informed products
  • Proven track record of close collaboration with Product and Engineering
  • Experience influencing standards, patterns, or systems beyond a single feature
  • Ability to balance craft, speed, and business impact
  • Figma (expert level) - scalable component architecture, design systems, and documentation
  • AI design tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or similar, used as part of daily design workflows
  • Prototyping tools (Figma Prototypes, Framer, ProtoPie, or similar) for exploring behavior and interaction
  • Motion tools such as Rive or After Effects or similar for stateful interactions and micro-animations
  • Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and modern frontend concepts
  • Comfort working within modern product development tools and workflow

Core Skills
  • AI & Conversational Design Fluency: Experience designing AI-powered, conversational, or assistive experiences, with a focus on clarity, trust, and responsible presentation of AI output.
  • Systems & Platform Design Expertise: Proven ability to design scalable UX frameworks, patterns, and interaction models that support complex platforms and evolving capabilities.
  • End-to-End Product Design Craft: Excellence across UX, visual design, interaction design, and motion, with the ability to make complex systems feel approachable and usable.
  • Technical Collaboration & Prototyping: Comfort partnering closely with engineers, understanding technical constraints, and using prototyping to explore and validate interaction and behavior.
  • Design Leadership Without Authority: Ability to influence outcomes through clear thinking, strong critique, documentation, and example-setting across teams.
  • Cross-Functional Influence & Communication: Demonstrated ability to clearly articulate design thinking, rationale, and tradeoffs; confidently present work; and influence decisions across design, product, engineering, data, and leadership-especially in complex, ambiguous, or technically dense problem spaces.

Mindset & Approach
  • Ownership-driven leader who takes responsibility for outcomes, not just outputs
  • Customer- and experience-obsessed, especially in AI-driven workflows
  • Quality advocate with pragmatic judgment, balancing craft with speed
  • Collaborative, Resilient Partner who approaches challenges with professionalism and empathy, engages in healthy debate, and maintains clear, respectful collaboration and communication.

Motion Tools
  • Framer Motion
  • Motion.dev
  • D3
  • GSAP

Design Tools
  • Rive
  • Figma
  • FigJam
  • Figma Slides

Vibe Coding Tools
  • Cursor
  • Claude Code
  • Storybook
  • React/Next.js

Comms/PM Tools
  • Slack
  • Confluence
  • Jira

BENEFITS & PERKS
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Employee Equity
  • Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance And more!!

SALARY RANGE
The salary range for this role is $160,000 - $180,000 depending on location and experience.
PEOPLE & CULTURE AT ZETA
Zeta considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Zeta discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
We're committed to building a workplace culture of trust and belonging, so everyone feels invited to bring their whole selves to work. We provide a forum for employees to celebrate, support and advocate for one another. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion here: https://zetaglobal.com/blog/a-look-into-zetas-ergs/
ZETA IN THE NEWS!
https://zetaglobal.com/press/?cat=press-releases
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