Motion & Graphic Designer

About LawConnect

If you've seen the LawConnect yacht sailing through Sydney Harbour, you've seen a glimpse of who we are. But what we're building goes far beyond the shoreline.

LawConnect is part of the LEAP Group, the leading provider of legal practice productivity software in Australia, the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, and New Zealand. Together, we support over 100,000 legal professionals across small and mid-sized firms.

LawConnect is a fast-growing consumer platform that helps people find relevant legal information and connect directly with lawyers online. Powered by AI, we're redefining how people get legal help and making it more accessible, efficient, and human.

We're also integrated with a legal marketplace, our B2B service that connects LawConnect users with lawyers, enabling firms to grow their practices.

What you'll do

As our Motion & Graphic Designer, you'll craft visual experiences that bring our brand, product, and purpose to life. From motion graphics and video editing to designing assets for multi-channel campaigns, you'll help communicate complex ideas simply, clearly, and beautifully.

Reporting to the Head of Global Marketing, and working closely with the UX and Design Lead, you'll help ensure consistency across every visual touchpoint, from marketing campaigns to in-product experiences. You'll collaborate with teams across Marketing and Development to deliver high-impact creative that reflects our brand and drives engagement.

To make this happen, you will:

• Design and animate videos, social content, and product explainers that educate and inspire.
• Produce campaign assets across paid media, email, social, OOH, print and web, ensuring consistency and quality across every channel.
• Collaborate in Figma with the UX/UI team to align motion and visual language across brand and product.
• Work closely with developers and marketers to ensure smooth handover and high-quality implementation of your designs.
• Contribute to and refine design systems and brand guidelines, adding new components or patterns where needed.
• Manage file structure and version control across shared libraries, maintaining quality and scalability.
• Maintain and evolve shared templates, libraries, and design systems to support scalable, high-quality output.

What you'll bring

This is a mid to senior-level role, we're looking for someone with approximately 6 to 8 years of professional experience in motion and digital design, ideally across both marketing and product environments. Along with:

• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects) for high-quality graphics and motion assets.
• Strong Figma knowledge to collaborate on design systems, component libraries, and hand-off assets with the UX/UI team.
• Video editing and motion graphics expertise for marketing campaigns (ads, social media, product explainers).
• Understanding of web and mobile design principles, ensuring marketing visuals align with product UI standards.
• Ability to prepare production-ready assets (optimized for web, mobile, and print).
• Strong grasp of typography, colour theory, and layout principles to maintain brand identity.
• Ability to create engaging visual narratives for promotional campaigns, while aligning with product design language.
• An eye for micro-interactions and animation that can enhance both marketing and UX prototypes.
• Familiarity with basic HTML/CSS for understanding implementation constraints desirable.
• Knowledge of accessibility guidelines (contrast ratios, legibility, motion sensitivity) desirable.

You are the type of person who is

• Collaborative – You thrive in a team and value diverse input and ideas. 
• A self-starter – You take initiative and proactively seek improvements and innovations. 
• Creative & strategic – You balance aesthetics with purpose to deliver impact. 
• Growth-minded – You embrace feedback, challenges, and learning opportunities. 
• Detail-oriented – You sweat the small stuff because it adds up to big quality. 
• A clear communicator – You explain your thinking clearly and effectively to all stakeholders.

LEAP is an inclusive, people-first company committed to breaking down institutional barriers that keep people from reaching their potential. If you meet some, but not all the requirements above, we encourage you to still submit your application.

Why join LawConnect?

• Your work matters. We're pioneering legal software to empower people's access to justice using AI.
• Make an impact. You won't be another 'cog in the wheel' here. We give full trust and autonomy for you to be heard, to work on big & complex projects – and to make a real difference.
• Work with a group of authentic, passionate people who love what they do.
• Established and global. LawConnect is part of a successful group of companies in the Legal Software sector. You'll get all the creative freedom that comes with an early-stage start-up but with all the benefits of working for a larger entity - funding, stability and a large, engaged client base.
• Flexible and hybrid working. We'd like to find this person in Sydney, but we want you to work in a way that suits you and we're open to flexible arrangements that support you.
• Grow your career with us. Our founder Christian Beck has been building legal tech businesses for over 30 years. There are opportunities galore to expand your career based on where your interests lie. We're not afraid to pivot based on market conditions - you will always have the opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and do your best work here.
• Have fun with us. Celebrations. Socials. Sports teams. Access to sailing and yacht events.
• We value your well-being - enjoy an additional paid wellbeing day every year, free gym membership, corporate dental plan and weekly massages in the office. We'll throw in a catered lunch and breakfast every week too. Oh and an on-site barista.
• Access to LEAP Home - a program unique to LEAP to support you in buying your primary residence.