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# Lead Motion Designer at Hinge Health

- **Company:** [Hinge Health](https://feeny.ai/companies/hinge-health)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $150k–$207k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hinge-health/6ef13733-af8f-4696-9a39-7042d9804f7d

## Job description

## About the Role

Hinge Health is building an expressive and scalable motion language across brand, product, marketing, and digital experiences. As Lead Motion Designer, you will shape how complex ideas become clear, compelling stories that help people move beyond pain and get back to doing things they love. You will lead multi-channel, multi-platform motion initiatives from creative direction through final delivery. You will partner with creative directors, designers, writers, editors and business stakeholders to turn briefs into high-quality work that is distinctive, on-brand, audience-aware, and connected to business goals. This is an individual contributor role. You will provide craft leadership, ideation, and mentorship without direct people-management responsibility.

## What you’ll accomplish

In your first 3 months

- Build strong working relationships across Brand, Creative & Content, Marketing, and other key partner teams.
- Develop fluency in Hinge Health’s brand expression, assess production workflows, and creative review processes.
- Take ownership of priority motion projects and establish a clear vision, scope, timelines, and decision paths.

In your first 6 months

- Define and evolve Hinge Health’s motion principles, standards, and quality bar in partnership with creative and cross-functional leaders.
- Lead complex motion projects across brand campaigns, product videos, website, paid and organic channels, presentation decks and digital touchpoints.
- Develop multiple concepts and guide work through storyboards, style frames, animatics, visual effects, editing and final delivery.
- Present creative strategy, concepts, work-in-progress, and final recommendations to senior stakeholders, connecting creative decisions to audience and business goals.

In your first year

- Build reusable templates, workflows, and self-serve tools that improve consistency, efficiency, and quality for the Video, Content and Production team.
- Become a trusted motion design expert and thought partner for complex, ambiguous initiatives across Product Marketing, Commercial, Growth, and other functions.
- Mentor motion designers and creative partners through clear feedback, coaching, and hands-on collaboration.
- Lead complex, high-visibility work across multiple channels, platforms, products, or business functions.

## Who you are

- A craft leader who can move fluidly between creative strategy and hands-on execution, remaining close to the work and its details.
- A strategic storyteller who can simplify complex product, clinical, technical, or business concepts into clear and engaging motion.
- A systems thinker who enjoys building motion principles, templates, workflows, and production practices that help teams create better work at scale.
- A confident cross-functional partner who can facilitate creative discussions, synthesize feedback, give clear direction, and drive alignment.
- A learn-it-all who continues to advance their craft, explores new methods, and shares practical learnings with the team.
- An owner who makes sound decisions amid ambiguity and remains accountable for quality, timelines, and outcomes.
- A collaborative teammate who raises the creative bar, supports others’ growth, and embodies Hinge Health’s leadership principles.

## Basic Qualifications

- 8+ years of professional experience in motion design, video, editing, or a related creative discipline.
- A portfolio demonstrating strong motion craft, conceptual thinking, visual storytelling, animation, and production judgment.
- Advanced understanding of motion principles, including timing, pacing, easing, eye trace, tension and release, and visual hierarchy.
- Experience leading creative work from brief through final delivery, including storyboards, style frames, animation, visual effects, and final output.
- Experience building or improving motion systems, templates, production workflows, and standards that help teams work more effectively.
- Advanced proficiency in motion design and production tools, including Figma, Final Cut Pro, Cinema 4D, Rive, or equivalent tools.
- Curiosity about AI-enabled creative tools and the judgment to use them responsibly while protecting quality, originality, accuracy, and brand integrity.

Hinge Health Hybrid Model We believe that remote work and in-person work have their own advantages and disadvantages, and we want to be able to leverage the best of both worlds. Employees in hybrid roles are required to be in the office 3 days per week, for the full 8 hours of a typical business day. The San Francisco office has a dog-friendly workplace program.

## About Hinge Health

At Hinge Health, we’re using technology to scale and automate the delivery of healthcare, starting with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, which affect over 1.7 billion people worldwide. Our AI-powered, human-centered care model spans MSK, pelvic health, gastrointestinal (GI) and migraine care. With over 60 partnerships with health plans, PBMs and other ecosystem partners, Hinge Health is available to over 25 million people across more than 2,900 employers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Montreal and Bangalore. Learn more at [hingehealth.com](http://hingehealth.com).

## What You’ll Love About Us

- Inclusive healthcare and benefits: On top of comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, we offer employees and their family members help with gender-affirming care, tools for family and fertility planning, and travel reimbursements if healthcare isn’t available where you live.
- Planning for the future: Start saving for the future with our traditional or Roth 401k retirement plan options which include a 2% company match.
- Modern life stipends: Manage your own learning and development.
- Grow with us: Grow with us through discounted company stock through our ESPP with easy payroll deductions.

Culture & Engagement Hinge Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We make employment decisions without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you feel you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, let us know by reaching out to your recruiter. By submitting your application you are acknowledging we are using your personal data as outlined in the [personnel and candidate privacy policy.](https://www.hingehealth.com/about/personnel-and-candidate-privacy-policy/)

Beware of Phishing Attempts: We've noticed an increase in phishing where fraudsters impersonate employees and send fake job offers to steal sensitive information. We'll never ask for financial details during the hiring process and only use "@[hingehealth.com](http://hingehealth.com)" emails. If you receive a suspicious offer, stop communication and report it to the US FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center. To verify an email from our recruiting team, forward it to [security@hingehealth.com](https://app.ashbyhq.com/admin/organizational-settings/theme#).

## About Hinge Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hinge Health delivers personalized virtual physical therapy and musculoskeletal (MSK) care by combining AI-powered motion tracking, an FDA-cleared wearable device, and a dedicated clinical care team.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: HNGE)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Gabriel Mecklenburg (Co-founder & Executive Chairman / CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Digital Healthcare – Musculoskeletal (MSK) and pelvic health.
- **Target Customers**: B2B – employers, health plans, and benefits brokers. Indirectly B2C through members.
- **Mission**: To create a new healthcare system built around the individual – moving beyond traditional physical therapy to deliver accessible, scalable, evidence-based pain care.

## Products & Services
- **Virtual Physical Therapy Program**: Personalized care plans with guided exercise sessions using 3D motion tracking for real-time feedback and precision movement analysis. Includes access to a physical therapist, health coach, and orthopedic specialist.
- **Enso® Wearable Device**: FDA-cleared device that uses patented waveforms for drug-free pain relief; exclusive to Hinge Health.
- **AI Care Assistant**: An AI agent that helps members stay on track with their care plans.
- **Pelvic Floor Therapy**: Virtual care for pelvic health, integrated with MSK services.
- **Enterprise Implementation**: Seamless eligibility, billing, and reporting through partnerships with 5 out of 5 national health plans and 3 out of 3 PBMs. Value-based pricing and frictionless contracting.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available (post-IPO; specific market cap not disclosed in provided sources).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$587.9M** (2025) – [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hinge-health). Total funding raised: **$1.46B**.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Tiger Global Management, Coatue, Alkeon Capital, Whale Rock Capital Management.
- **Growth Signals**: IPO in May 2025; headcount of 1,254 (+1.2% YoY); 75 active job postings (+31.6% year over year); expanded into pelvic floor therapy; operates in 11 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Clinically validated ROI** – independently validated 2.4x hard dollar return on investment for employers.
- **AI-first care model** – uses 3D motion tracking, autonomous AI agents for reasoning and feedback, and regulatory-grade systems.
- **Exclusive FDA-cleared device** (Enso®) that differentiates from traditional PT offerings.
- **Deep integration** with major national health plans and PBMs, creating high switching costs.
- **Business model aligned with outcomes** – revenue is tied to healing people, not billing procedures, enabling investment in direct care automation.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale and automate healthcare delivery by building AI agents that perceive movement, reason biomechanics, and adapt clinical guidance in real time.
- Expand into adjacent conditions (pelvic health) and deepen partnership integrations.
- Continue engineering a culture where “designers code” and “engineers build interactive prototypes,” deploying agent-first workflows across hundreds of engineers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasis on autonomy, mastery, and purpose. The R&D blog describes an environment where engineers review reasoning logs instead of diffs and where AI agents ship PRs without human line edits.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid/office presence – HQ in San Francisco with offices in India, Canada, UK, and Colombia. Specific remote policy not detailed in sources.
- **Impact**: Opportunity to work on regulatory-grade AI that directly improves clinical outcomes for millions of people.
- **Reviews**: Employer rating of 3.8/5 on LinkedIn; strong scores for work-life balance (3.7) and compensation (3.7).
- **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the culture of “impact at scale” and investment in R&D suggests strong engineering support.

## Sources
1. [hingehealth.com](https://www.hingehealth.com/)
2. [hingehealth.com/about](https://www.hingehealth.com/about/)
3. [rnd.hingehealth.com](https://rnd.hingehealth.com/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/hinge-health](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hinge-health)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/hinge-health](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hinge-health)

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