Hire vetted offshoreMotion Designers.
Sprint Labs recruits, employs and manages motion designers across Asia for companies in Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada and the UK. You interview and direct them like an in-house hire. We handle the contract, the payroll and the compliance.
- Full-time, dedicated, employed by Sprint Labs
- Named shortlist in 5–10 business days
- One flat monthly seat cost, no placement fee
Recorded intros, prior work and references.
Get a motion designer shortlist
Named, vetted candidates with recordings and rates. No account, no call required.
How much does an offshore motion designer cost, and how does hiring one work?
A motion designer through Sprint Labs costs roughly USD 1,300–1,900 per month all-in at mid-level and USD 2,000–2,800 for senior — one flat seat cost with no recruitment fee and no entity required. They makes your product and brand move without a studio invoice. Named shortlists land in 5–10 business days.
Embedded in teams across six markets
How fast can I get a candidate started?
Tell us the role
Two minutes, no account. Seniority, start date, anything specific.
We recruit and vet
Skills tests, a working session and reference checks against your brief.
You meet a shortlist
Named candidates with recordings, prior work and a flat monthly seat cost.
They start, we employ them
Contracts, local payroll, HR and retention sit with Sprint Labs.
Same role. A fraction of the cost.
Fully-loaded annual seat cost compared with hiring the same role locally.
- Dedicated full-time hire — included
- Employed and payrolled by Sprint Labs — included
- Replacement at no extra cost — included
- Dedicated full-time hire — included
- Employed and payrolled for you — not included
- Replacement at no extra cost — not included
Onshore ranges derived from the Hays Salary Guide (Australia) and Robert Half Salary Guide (United States), 2025 editions, converted to USD and loaded with employer on-costs. Sprint Labs figures are our own 2025 pricing.
What does a strong motion designer change?
Motion work — product explainers, animated ads, UI micro-animation, title systems — is normally bought project by project at studio rates. As a seat it becomes a standing capability, and offshore motion designers trained on After Effects and Cinema 4D produce studio-standard output at a fraction of the cost.
What they own
- Animate product explainers and campaign videos
- Build and maintain a brand motion system
- Produce animated ad variants for paid channels
- Create UI animation and Lottie assets for product teams
- Storyboard concepts before production
What skills should a motion designer have?
- After Effects
- Cinema 4D / Blender
- Motion graphics
- Product explainers
- Lottie / Rive
- Storyboarding
- Sound design basics
- Brand motion systems
- Figma
Motion Designer seat cost, USD per month.
Indicative fully-loaded seat cost including salary, statutory benefits, local payroll, hardware, HR support and Sprint Labs' employer overhead. There is no separate recruitment fee — your exact quote is generated in-app. Benchmarks in USD, reviewed .
- Entry
- $800 – $1,200
- Mid
- $1,300 – $1,900
- Senior
- $2,000 – $2,800
- Entry
- $800 – $1,150
- Mid
- $1,250 – $1,800
- Senior
- $1,900 – $2,700
- Entry
- $750 – $1,100
- Mid
- $1,200 – $1,750
- Senior
- $1,850 – $2,600
- Entry
- $800 – $1,150
- Mid
- $1,250 – $1,800
- Senior
- $1,900 – $2,650
Entry-level covers capable candidates with 1–3 years' experience, best where the work is well defined and supervised.
Brief the role in two minutes. Shortlist in days.
Interviewing a motion designer.
Ask for the project file
A tidy, well-named, re-usable After Effects project separates production designers from one-off showreel builders. Ask how they would hand the file to someone else next quarter.
Work sample beats CV claims
Sprint Labs screens every motion designer on a short, realistic task drawn from the work you actually need done, then sends you the output alongside the CV. You see the standard before you spend an interview slot on it.
English and communication are scored
Written and spoken English is assessed and you get a voice recording before you interview, so you know how this person will land in a client call, a Slack thread or a handover note.
Add AI accent conversion for $1/hour per user.
If the role spends time on the phone, our AI accent conversion neutralises accent in real time so every call lands clearly with your customers — without losing the person behind the voice.
Real-time neutralisation
Accent is softened live on the call, with latency low enough that the conversation still feels natural.
Their voice, preserved
Tone, pace, warmth and intent stay theirs. It is your actual team member on the line, just easier to follow.
Your existing phone system
Layers over the softphone or dialler you already run. No porting, no new platform, nothing to retrain.
Hire a motion designer from Asia.
Questions about hiring an offshore motion designer.
How much does an offshore motion designer cost?
Around USD 1,300–1,900 per month all-in at mid-level and USD 2,000–2,800 for a senior motion designer.
Can one person cover both video editing and motion?
Some can, at a cost. If your volume is mostly cutting footage with occasional animation, hire an editor with After Effects skills. If motion is the product, hire the specialist — the craft ceiling is meaningfully higher.
Do I need a local entity to hire a motion designer offshore?
No. Sprint Labs is the legal employer in-market. We contract the motion designer, run local-currency payroll, handle statutory benefits and compliance, and bill you one flat monthly seat cost in your own currency. You direct the work day-to-day exactly as you would an in-house hire.
How long does it take to hire a motion designer through Sprint Labs?
Most briefs produce a named, vetted shortlist within 5–10 business days. From there you interview, choose, and we handle the offer, contract and onboarding — typical brief-to-start is three to five weeks depending on the candidate's notice period.
What happens if the hire is not the right fit?
Tell us within the first 30 days and we replace them at our cost. After that, engagements carry a 60-day cancellation notice, which protects the employee and gives you time to hand over work — but if you want to swap rather than terminate, we run a replacement search in parallel at no additional recruitment cost.
Brief the role in two minutes. Shortlist in days.
What other roles are often hired alongside?
Brief the role. See a shortlist within 5–10 business days.
Named, vetted candidates with recordings, prior work and references — plus a flat monthly seat cost in your own currency.
