--- title: 'Motion Graphic Designer at Wordsmith AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/motion-graphic-designer-wordsmith-ai-london-ny1p4m8jc3mx' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Motion Graphic Designer at Wordsmith AI - **Company:** Wordsmith AI - **Location:** London, United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wordsmith/1cc4f7b3-9066-4a3d-9927-dd27c5f33d8c/application **Skills:** After Effects, Figma, Premiere, Motion Design, Video Production, Rive, Lottie, GSAP, Cinema 4D, Blender, AI video tools, Web motion, Motion system building > As a founding Motion Designer, you will own video and motion storytelling for Wordsmith, creating launch videos, feature announcements, and social assets. You will build motion systems, produce high-quality output, and partner with cross-functional teams to drive brand narrative and growth. ## Job description Motion Designer London / Edinburgh Wordsmith Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams, and we are growing fast. We believe in-house legal is becoming one of the most important functions in the AI era. Every business is moving faster, but legal work is still too often scattered across inboxes, chats, documents, and disconnected systems. Wordsmith brings that work into one system. Requests come in from across the business, AI agents handle the routine, lawyers stay in control where judgment matters, and every step is captured as work happens. We are built for in-house legal, not law firms. Our goal is to help legal teams move faster, reduce unnecessary external counsel spend, and become a function the business can run with. More than 500 companies, including Financial Times, Safelite, Trip.com, Canva, Starling, and Sage, use Wordsmith. Backed by $100M from Index Ventures, General Catalyst, Highland Europe, and others, we are building one of the defining companies in legal AI. ## Why this role is different Motion is one of the fastest ways to show people what Wordsmith actually does. A strong product animation can communicate more in 30 seconds than a long case study ever will. This is a founding motion role. You’ll define how Wordsmith moves, feels, and tells product stories through video. You’ll build the systems that let us scale high-quality output and shape how the market experiences our brand. If you care about craft, speed, and work that directly drives growth, this is a rare opportunity. ## The Role We’re hiring a Motion Designer to own video and motion across Wordsmith. You’ll create launch videos, feature announcements, social assets, and product storytelling that turns complex workflows into clear, compelling narratives. You’ll work closely with Design, Growth, Product Marketing, and Founders to bring ideas to life quickly and at a high standard. This is a hands-on role with real ownership from day one. ## What you’ll do - Create launch videos, feature announcements, and product animations - Turn abstract workflows into clear visual stories that land quickly - Build a motion system of templates, transitions, components, and export standards - Produce social content, event openers, conference loops, and sales enablement assets - Partner with writers, designers, and producers from concept to final delivery - Brief and manage freelancers when extra capacity is needed - Help define how motion supports brand, growth, and product storytelling - Use AI tools to improve quality, speed, and creative range ## What we’re looking for - 3+ years of motion design experience, ideally in-house at a product or technology company - Strong reel of shipped work you can talk through clearly - Excellent taste and high standards for craft - Strong narrative instincts — you can simplify dense ideas visually - Ownership mindset — you’re comfortable building a function, not just executing briefs - High initiative — you spot gaps and move before being asked - AI-first mentality — you actively use modern tools to increase quality and output - Advanced skills in After Effects and Figma - Comfortable in Premiere for editing Bonus: - Rive, Lottie, GSAP, or web motion - 3D tools such as Cinema 4D or Blender - AI video tools - Experience building reusable motion systems or libraries ## How we work We’re an in-office team. We work together because it helps us move faster, collaborate closely, and produce better work. You should expect to be in the office as your default in your chosen hub. This is a high trust environment. You’ll have real ownership, clear responsibility, and room to shape how things are done. We care about pace, but also craft. The standard matters. This role suits people who want responsibility, autonomy, and visible impact. ## What you can expect - Ownership of motion at one of Europe’s fastest-growing AI companies - Real budget and mandate to build the function properly - High-impact work seen by customers, prospects, and the market - Close partnership with a senior marketing and design team - Competitive salary and meaningful equity ## Why Wordsmith We’re growing quickly, shipping fast, and building products customers genuinely need. There is huge demand, strong momentum, and no shortage of meaningful stories to tell. If you want your motion work to influence brand, pipeline, and product perception at scale, this is a strong place to do it. ## About Wordsmith AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Wordsmith provides an AI-native legal operations platform that captures, triages, resolves, and records every legal request from the business, enabling in-house legal teams to work at the speed of AI. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Ross McNairn (CEO), Volodymyr Giginiak (CTO), Robbie Falkenthal (COO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Legal Technology (LegalTech), Enterprise AI, Workflow Automation - **Target customers**: In-house legal departments at mid-to-large enterprises across all industries (B2B, Enterprise) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To be the Northstar for legal intelligence in business — to bring the legal function in-house by making it measurable, compressible, and owned, just as every other major corporate cost centre has been. ## Products & Services - **The Wordsmith Platform (Legal Operations System)**: An end-to-end AI-native system built around four core workflows: **Receive** (captures legal requests from Slack, email, Salesforce, Teams, and procurement systems), **Route** (assigns ownership, priority, and context), **Resolve** (automates routine legal work using AI agents — drafting, redlining, research, translation — while escalating complex decisions to lawyers), and **Record** (logs every decision, action, and rationale in real time for audit-ready governance). - **Contract Review & Workflow Integration**: End-to-end contract review embedded directly into business tools like Slack, Gmail, and procurement systems. Reviews are collaborative and web-native. - **Word Integration**: A plugin allowing lawyers to review, redline, draft, research, and translate without leaving Microsoft Word. - **AI Agents**: Chain drafting into a full end-to-end workflow — receive the request, draft the document, route for approval, and send — with no manual step required. - **Global Legal Intelligence Engine**: Covers hundreds of trusted sources across 130+ jurisdictions, combined with deep knowledge of the customer’s own entities, risk profile, and prior positions. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised — **$100M** across two rounds. Last round: **€60.2M ($70M) Series B** (announced June 2026). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures, Highland Europe, General Catalyst (the firms behind Figma, Stripe, Discord, Airbnb, Revolut, and Canva). - **Growth Signals**: - Used by **500+ organisations globally**, including major enterprises such as **BT, Financial Times, Safelite, Trip.com, and Canva**. - Reports that **Trustpilot cut contract review time by 85%** using the platform. - Planning to grow workforce from ~100 to **~300 employees**, with significant **US market expansion**. - Founded in 2023 and achieved this scale in just over two years. ## Competitive Advantages - **Category-defining position**: Wordsmith is not a legal copilot for individual lawyers — it is an **operating system for the entire in-house legal function**, managing complete request flows across the organisation. This system-level approach is a structural shift away from traditional point-tools. - **Conflict-free business model**: Wordsmith sits on the side of the *buyer* of legal services (the in-house team), not the *seller* (law firms). All other legacy tools were built to serve law firms. Wordsmith’s incentives are aligned with removing friction and cost for the enterprise. - **Vertical-first AI strategy**: Deeply specialised in legal workflows rather than a generalist AI platform, making the product deeply relevant and defensible in a $1.1T global legal market. - **Founding team**: Led by a CEO (Ross McNairn), CTO (Volodymyr Giginiak), and COO (Robbie Falkenthal) who blend legal domain expertise with deep AI and engineering capability. ## Strategic Focus - **Scale globally, with a US expansion priority**: The Series B is explicitly earmarked to accelerate growth in the US market. - **Hire exceptional talent**: Grow the team to ~300 people, maintaining a “fewer, better people” philosophy — a small group of brilliant specialists rather than a crowd of generalists. - **Product depth**: Continue to invest in AI agents, global legal intelligence, and deeper integration into enterprise workflows (Slack, Salesforce, Word, Gmail). - **Move beyond task assistance to full automation**: The stated vision is to make legal “the last black box” in the enterprise — measurable, compressed, and owned internally. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Philosophy**: Described as a team of “lawyers and engineers blending two worlds.” Core operating principles include: **“fewer, better people”** (small, elite teams), **relentless focus on simplicity**, and building products that are so elegant they “feel like magic.” The company explicitly values **judgment** as the key differentiator in an AI-powered world. - **Growth Trajectory**: A rare stage — Series B with $100M in funding, a small enough team that individual contributions matter every day, and early enough to shape how the company builds. Significant US expansion ahead. - **Work Environment**: Hybrid (roles listed for Edinburgh and London). The hiring process is transparent and values speed: a 30-min screening call, a 45-min technical interview, a short take-home challenge (a couple of hours), and a culture interview. - **Funding Backing**: Backed by the same investors who backed Figma, Stripe, and Canva — strong signal of ambition and long-term thinking. - **Impact**: Working on a problem that is “genuinely new” — building the platform to run in-house legal teams, which is a category that did not exist before AI made it possible. ## Sources 1. [wordsmith.ai](https://www.wordsmith.ai/) 2. [wordsmith.ai/company](https://www.wordsmith.ai/company) 3. [wordsmith.ai/careers](https://www.wordsmith.ai/careers) 4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/wordsmith-ai) 5. 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