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Video & Motion Designer

Karya is an ethical data company that provides dignified digital work to economically disadvantaged communities in India, creating high-quality AI datasets.

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About Karya:

Why was Karya on the cover of the Time Magazine , highlighted by Satya Nadella , and invited to present its work to Sundar Pichai one on one?

In part, because Karya is on a mission to provide AI enabled earning and learning opportunities to communities with high talent, but low access to opportunities. Karya achieves this while also delivering high quality, timely, and price competitive data to its clients.

Karya builds high quality datasets for large companies like Google and Microsoft, while providing ethical work opportunities and fair wages to its workforce.

Karya’s workers make nearly 20 times the Indian minimum wage and through our one-of-a-kind digital work platform, we have delivered over 40 million digital tasks and have positively impacted over 100 thousand workers. In the coming years, our goal is to rapidly scale our impact by bringing economic opportunities to millions of underserved users in India. With a rapidly growing global presence, we are also looking to expand our client base in the Indian market by partnering with leading Indian enterprises.

About the Role:

Karya is looking for a graphic design–led motion designer who thinks in layouts, systems, and visual clarity first — and uses motion as a tool to enhance understanding and storytelling.

This is not a videography or filming role. We’re looking for someone grounded in visual design, typography, composition, and information hierarchy, who can translate static ideas into clear, lightweight motion.

You’ll work across two core areas:

  • Learning & Instructional Design: Motion-led training content for rural, multilingual, and first-time smartphone users

  • Brand & Storytelling: Explainers, motion systems, and visual narratives for partners, funders, and public-facing communication

This role sits within the Storytelling Team and works closely with Product Design, Instructional Design, and Brand.

What You’ll Do

  • Design storyboards, frames, and visual systems before animating.

  • Create motion-first learning content: static + audio videos, simple animations, voiceover-led explainers, and walkthroughs

  • Translate scripts and concepts into clear visual sequences using layout, iconography, type, and motion

  • Develop reusable motion templates and systems aligned with Karya’s brand

  • Collaborate with:

    • Content writers, translators, and instructional designers for clarity and accessibility

    • Product and learning teams to ensure content reflects real user needs

    • Design and brand teams to maintain visual consistency across motion assets

  • Iterate quickly — low fidelity first, refined through testing and feedback

  • Design for clarity over cleverness, especially for low-literacy or first-time digital users

What You Bring

  • 1-3 years of experience in graphic design with a strong motion design component

  • A solid foundation in:

    • Layout and visual hierarchy

    • Typography and iconography

    • Storyboarding and information design

  • Ability to simplify complex ideas visually before animating them

  • Comfort with tools such as:

    • After Effects (primary)

    • Illustrator / Figma / Canva (for design-first workflows)

    • Premiere Pro (basic edits only — not film-heavy)

  • Familiarity with lightweight animation formats (Lottie, simple transitions, frame-based motion)

  • Curiosity about how people learn visually and cognitively

Nice to Have

  • Experience designing for low-literacy, multilingual, or rural audiences

  • Background in ed-tech, public-interest tech, or non-profits

  • Comfort experimenting with AI-assisted design tools (image generation, rapid prototyping)

  • Knowledge of Indian languages or regional media contexts

What This Role Is Not

  • Not a videography or filming role

  • Not focused on complex character animation or cinematic storytelling

  • Not social-media-first motion for trends or reels alone

This role is about design clarity, systems thinking, and purposeful motion.

Why This Role Matters

Karya’s work reaches people often excluded from mainstream design and technology. Motion design here isn’t decoration — it’s infrastructure. Your work will shape how people learn new skills, understand digital tools, and engage with AI-enabled work for the first time.

What We Offer

  • Flexible leave and vacation policy

  • Remote / hybrid work options

  • Insurance as per industry standards

  • Access to leaders in technology and social impact

  • Meaningful work at the intersection of AI, design, and equity

Karya celebrates diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected status.

If you need accommodations to apply, please contact us at hr@karya.in

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1 year minimum

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Open to candidates from all countries.

Hiring timezones

Worldwide

About Karya

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Many communities across the globe face significant economic challenges, not due to a lack of capability, but because traditional economic systems were not designed for them. Factors like language, gender, geography, and societal norms often lock entire communities out of fair and dignified work opportunities. This exclusion is particularly pronounced in the digital economy, where access to meaningful, well-paying work is often limited to those with specific skills and in urban centers. For instance, in India alone, over 204 million women do not leave their homes daily, limiting their ability to earn an income. Furthermore, with over 19,000 dialects in India and fewer than 100 being digitally documented, many are forced to abandon their mother tongues to participate in the digital world. This creates a digital divide that exacerbates economic disparities and threatens cultural heritage.

Karya was founded to address these challenges head-on by creating a more inclusive and ethical digital economy. We provide a smartphone-based platform that offers dignified digital work to individuals in rural and marginalized communities, enabling them to earn fair wages without needing to migrate or have high digital literacy. Our customers, who are building the next generation of AI, need vast amounts of high-quality, diverse, and ethically sourced data. We meet this need by connecting them with a trained workforce that can generate and annotate data in over 50 Indian languages. This not only ensures that AI systems are more representative and perform better for everyone but also provides a sustainable income source for our workers. We are committed to paying our workers at least 20 times the Indian minimum wage and have implemented a model where they own their data and earn royalties from its use, ensuring they have a lasting stake in the value they create. Through this model, we are proving that technology can be a powerful force for economic empowerment and social change, creating a future where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

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