Motion Designer - Localization

WE POWER PEOPLE’S PROGRESS. At Preply, we’re all about creating life-changing learning experiences. We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor, craft a personalised learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled - and it’s creating real impact. We’ve just reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning. Today, 100,000+ tutors teach 90+ languages to learners in 180 countries - and we’re only getting started. As a category-defining company, we’re shaping what the future of learning looks like at global scale. Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters. Joining Preply means helping define the future of education at global scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day. MEET THE TEAM! Welcome to Preply's Creative Chapter, where innovation meets passion to craft remarkable experiences for learners and tutors. We're not just creatives, we're on a mission to redefine language learning, guided by empathy and driven by a customer-centric approach to building meaningful products. As a Motion Designer (Localization) in Brand, you'll put your technical craft and process-building skills into practice and leave a lasting mark on how Preply shows up across the world. You'll join our Creative Studio, working closely with motion designers, video editors, and our localization team to ensure every piece of content we create can be experienced in any language, at the same level of quality. WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING We're looking for a Motion Designer who is as much a systems thinker as a visual craftsperson. Your primary focus will be owning Preply's motion localization pipeline: localizing motion design and videos to multiple markets and languages, building the workflows, templates, and processes that allow us to deliver high-quality video assets across 5–9 languages reliably and at speed. When localization capacity allows, you'll also contribute to creative motion design projects alongside the broader team. - Localization Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of motion localization for Preply's video assets: campaigns, HUB content, product videos, and social, across 5–9 target languages including ES, DE, IT, PL, FR, JP, and KR. Deliver multiple language versions per project with consistent quality, cultural fit, and brand fidelity. - Systems & Template Building: Design and document localization systems and After Effects templates that make our workflow faster and less dependent on individual availability. Build processes the whole team can follow, not just you. - Quality Control: Own QC across all language variants before anything reaches stakeholder review. Proactively flag text overflow, spec mismatches, missing frames, and process gaps: don't wait to be told. - Cross-functional Coordination: Work closely with the localization team, video editor, and motion designers to check review cycles, text updates, and final delivery. Keep multiple language pipelines moving simultaneously without losing track of any of them. - Creative Motion Design: Contribute to original motion design work, developing animations from scratch when localization capacity allows and the team needs support. WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED - Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Motion Design, Visual Communications, Animation, or a related field. - 3+ years of experience as a Motion Designer, with demonstrated focus on localization or multi-language video production. - Proven experience localizing motion or video assets to 5+ languages simultaneously, this is the core requirement, not a nice-to-have. - Strong After Effects proficiency: expressions, Essential Graphics templates, pre-comps, batch work, and multi-format render pipelines. - Working knowledge of Premiere Pro for editorial handoff and Figma for design reference and asset management. - A track record o