Social Graphic / Motion Designer (Contract) Job at Nex, San Jose, CA

  • Nex
  • San Jose, CA

Job Description

Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities.

Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back?, as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.

To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us.

Location: San Jose, California or Hybrid
Compensation: USD 45.00 - USD 85.00 per hour (Estimated 15–20 hours/week)
Type: Part-Time Contract
Report to: Social Lead

About this Role

We are seeking a creative and detail-oriented Social Graphic/Motion Designer to join our growing Brand and Marketing team on a part-time contractor basis.

This role is responsible for designing best-in-class social creative — from static graphics and carousels to motion assets and campaign support — across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn. You will build and maintain scalable templates and design systems, elevate short-form video with motion graphics, and help evolve Nex's social visual identity.

This is a great opportunity for someone with strong visual instincts and platform-native design sense who wants to help build a mission-driven brand at the intersection of movement, family, and technology.

Core Responsibilities

  • Design and produce best-in-class social creative across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and LinkedIn, including carousels, static graphics, Stories, motion assets and campaign support.
  • Create motion graphics, animations and graphic treatments that elevate short-form video content and improve overall creative quality.
  • Support game launches, IP partnerships, seasonal campaigns and always-on content with polished, social-first design assets.
  • Develop and maintain editable templates and scalable creative systems that enable faster, more efficient content production.
  • Partner closely with the internal creative and social team to evolve and uphold Nex's social visual identity, templates and creative toolkit.
  • Optimize creative specifically for social platforms, ensuring assets are designed for engagement, readability and mobile-first consumption.
  • Adapt campaign creative into platform-specific social assets while maintaining consistency across channels.
  • Collaborate with the Social Lead, content creator and agency partners to bring creative concepts to life from storyboard through final execution.
  • Stay current on evolving social design trends, motion styles and platform creative best practices to continuously elevate the brand's visual presence.
  • Thrive in a fast-paced environment, balancing quick-turn reactive requests alongside larger campaign deliverables.

Required Qualifications

  • 2–4+ years of experience in social graphic design and motion design, ideally for a consumer, gaming, or entertainment brand.
  • Strong portfolio of social-first creative (carousels, Stories, static graphics, motion assets) across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects) or equivalent design and motion tools.
  • Experience building and maintaining editable templates and scalable creative systems.
  • Strong understanding of mobile-first, platform-specific design best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in gaming, family, or consumer tech brands.
  • Experience supporting game launches, IP partnerships, or seasonal campaigns.
  • Familiarity with short-form video editing or motion graphics for social.
  • Experience collaborating with agency partners and cross-functional creative teams.

What Sets You Apart

  • Strong visual and brand instincts with platform-native design sense.
  • Ability to translate concepts into polished, on-brand execution quickly.
  • Highly organized, comfortable managing multiple deliverables at once.
  • Excited about building a new category around active, family-first play.

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We Offer

  • Competitive compensation package.
  • Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
  • Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.
  • Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field

Nex is located in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong . Learn more about us at

We encourage applications even if you don’t meet more than 50% of the requirements — we believe that experience comes in many forms!

Nex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy applies to all individuals at every stage of the employment relationship, including all current and prospective employees, and covers all employment decisions including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline and termination.

We are committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment and to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.

Job Tags

Hourly pay, Contract work, Part time, For contractors, Seasonal work, Immediate start, Remote work, Flexible hours

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