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# Rive Motion Designer and Animator (Contract-to-Hire) at Rilla

- **Company:** Rilla
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rilla/911f512f-cabc-4e4d-b238-906825d5e49d

## Job description

A Foundational Company Rilla is on a mission to index the offline world.

Today, we’ve built the leading sales coaching software for organizations doing sales offline. We have over 1000 customers, including The Home Depot, KKR, Neighborly, and PulteGroup, using our product to enable AI sales coaching across their organization.

We are backed by Google Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, Crew Capital, and Broom Ventures, along with others.

We’re an in office team in NYC with builders who operate like high speed reinforcement learners. We obsess over our customers, move at a high velocity, are not afraid of failure, and look to maximize our real-world impact.

If you want to build the products and systems for how billions of conversations in the real world are captured and indexed, Rilla is the place to do it.

## The Role

At Rilla, you’ll be at the forefront of transforming our product into an experience that feels as intuitive, playful, and rewarding as the best consumer games. You’ll design UI animations, build out our character universe, and bring it all to life with bold, innovative motion and art styles. As part of our Games team, you’ll collaborate closely with engineering, product, and design to craft animations that don’t just surprise and delight, but actively inspire our customers to hit their goals and celebrate every one of their wins along the way. You are a creative problem solver who will move fast, experiment constantly, and push the boundaries of what a product experience can be to keep it deeply engaging and retentive. Your primary playground will be our mobile and desktop app. You will also have opportunities to extend Rilla’s motion language into our website, marketing creative, and other key brand moments. This role is perfect for someone obsessed with game mechanics, passionate about creating joyful, immersive product experiences, and ready to thrive in a high-autonomy, high-expectation environment.

## What We Value

- An infinite learner. Someone who is relentless in their curiosity.
- A customer obsessive. Someone who deeply care about delighting customers and solving real pains, not vanity metrics.
- A winning attitude. You thrive with extreme accountability, learning as a team, and both giving and receiving rapid feedback.
- Extreme empathy. Our customers are not tech companies. They live and work in the real world. Empathy is critical to arriving at correct solutions.
- Unafraid of failure. You take risks. You see failure as an opportunity to learn, grow, and be better the next time. In a weird way, you trick your brain into being excited when you fail, because it means you got a new opportunity to learn more.

## What We Require

- Summary: 2+ years of experience in motion design, interactive media, game development — or a strong portfolio of personal projects showcasing diverse styles and technical excellence.
- Motion Design: Proficiency in Rive, Lottie, and After Effects, with a strong eye for detail and aptitude in learning new tools and hands-on experience in production-ready animations
- Character Design: Skilled at bringing characters to life through AI-powered prompting and creative iteration, embracing video generation tools over traditional rigging, lighting, and shader pipelines
- Technical Collaboration: Experience working with engineers on animation implementation, understanding technical constraints and optimization
- Sound and Haptic Integration: Knowledge of how motion, sound, and haptic feedback work together to create cohesive user experiences
- AI-Augmented Workflow: You're well-versed in AI tools and excited to experiment with new software to create compelling animations
- Impeccable Taste and Brand Intuition: Ability to translate Rilla’s dynamic brand energy and art style into a motion design language
- Passion for Games: An understanding of game design principles and player experience, with a sharp eye for what makes interactions addictive, rewarding, and fun using animations that engage and delight

✨ Nice to have (ordered):

- Examples of motion design work similar to Duolingo or other consumer game platforms
- Experience with performance optimization for web and mobile
- General 3D skills like modeling, texturing, rigging, and animating

## Compensation

This role is contract, open to remote, with the ability for full-time conversion to be in-person in NYC. Compensation: $60-$100/hr.

## About Rilla

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Rilla provides an AI-powered coaching platform that records, transcribes, and analyzes in-person sales conversations to give managers 100% field visibility and accelerate rep performance.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage – raised $3.9M total)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Sebastian Jimenez (CEO), Chris Martin (CTO, Co-Founder), Michael Castellanos (Chief Data Scientist, Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered sales enablement and conversation intelligence for in-person sales teams.
- **Target customers**: B2B – field sales organizations in home services, home building, automotive, dental, senior living, multifamily, and other verticals where sales happen offline.
- **Mission statement**: *“Make the offline world as searchable as the web.”* The company aims to create the first living map of offline commerce.

## Products & Services
- **Rilla AI Coaching Platform**: A mobile app and web platform that records in-person sales conversations, then automatically transcribes, analyzes, and delivers coaching feedback. Managers can perform “virtual ridealongs” in minutes instead of hours. The AI adapts to each team’s sales process and best performers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (privately held).
- **Key Metric – Annual Revenue**: $25M–$50M (LinkedIn estimate, 2026).
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: $3.9M across three seed rounds. Lead investor in latest round (Seed, Dec. 2022): **Crew Capital**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Crew Capital; also 7 additional investors in the last round. Advisors include Filip Kaliszan (CEO & Founder of Verkada), Jim Kowalski (fmr Group VP North America, Oracle), Daniel Dines (CEO & Founder of UiPath), Nikolay Storonsky (CEO & Founder of Revolut), Steve Zahm (Cofounder of Procore).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **64.5% YoY** to 108 employees.
  - Net revenue retention reported at **232%** (from careers page).
  - Average increase in close rates of **+40%** and average increase in ticket price of **+17%** for customers.
  - Trusted by thousands of sales teams in verticals like home improvement, home building, dental, and automotive.
  - Recently partnered with Neighborly (March 2026) to empower plumbers and HVAC technicians with AI.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built for offline sales** – unlike generic conversation intelligence platforms, Rilla focuses exclusively on in-person field sales, capturing voice, location, and context.
- **Rapid onboarding** – claims setup in 1 hour 45 minutes.
- **Unprecedented visibility** – managers can review every rep’s appointment every day without being physically present.
- **High-performance coaching** – customers report 40–50% performance improvement within the first month, with reps achieving 627% monthly sales increases from instant feedback.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue dominating verticals with heavy offline commerce (home services, building, dental, automotive, senior living).
- Expand AI capabilities to serve more industries and deepen personalization of coaching.
- Build the “first living map of offline commerce” by indexing millions of in-person sales interactions.

## Why Work Here
- **Compensation**: 90th percentile of market rate; competitive salaries and equity.
- **Benefits**:
  - Full medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  - Unlimited PTO.
  - Free daily breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks.
  - Gym membership (fitness benefits).
  - Commuter benefits (fully covered transit/ride-shares).
  - Parental leave.
  - $1,000 annual learning stipend (courses, books, conferences).
  - Proximity stipend for employees near the office.
- **Culture & Work Environment**:
  - Values: Obsession, Speed, Simplicity, Fun.
  - Hybrid-friendly: New York HQ with a proximity stipend; also operates in Canada, Australia, Nigeria, UK, and Poland.
  - Company offsites twice a year (past trips: San Diego, Cape Cod, Palm Springs).
  - Leadership team includes former founders, D1 athletes, and top tech company alumni.
  - High-growth environment (22 active job postings as of mid-2026).
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on building fast, solving hard problems, and pioneering AI for the real economy. Tech roles include Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer (Platform & Applied AI).

## Sources
1. [Rilla Careers Page](https://www.rilla.com/careers)
2. [Rilla About Page](https://www.rilla.com/company/about)
3. [Rilla LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rilla-co)
4. [Rilla Homepage](https://www.rilla.com/)

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