Visual & Motion Design Intern (Hybrid)

At Homebase, you’ll join a team that’s bold, fast-moving, and obsessed with helping small businesses thrive. We build with empathy, act with urgency, and take big swings that drive real-world impact. Here, every Homie shows up to raise the bar, support one another, and celebrate wins as a team.

We’re not just building an app—we’re building unstoppable teams. So what do you say, are you in?

We’re looking for a talented Visual & Motion Design Intern to elevate the craft and polish of our product experiences across mobile and web. You'll work closely with product designers, engineers, and the design systems team to bring interfaces to life through purposeful animation, refined visual details, and pixel-perfect execution.

• Design and prototype motion patterns for key product interactions across mobile and web, including transitions, feedback states, loading indicators, component behaviors, and celebratory moments

• Partner with product designers to add polish and refinement to shipped features

• Create high-fidelity visual assets and ensure pixel-perfect implementation across platforms

• Work across data visualizations, illustrations, micro-interactions, and UI transitions

• Help establish motion principles, timing curves, and animation patterns that scale across our design system

• Document motion guidelines and contribute reusable assets to our component library

• Drive consistency in how motion is applied across iOS, Android, and web surfaces

• Work closely with engineers to ensure animations are performant and implementable across platforms

• Participate in design critiques and contribute to raising the bar for visual quality across the team

• Act as both a hands-on motion designer and a conceptual contributor on projects

• Create interactive prototypes to communicate complex interactions and validate design directions

• Explore new visual directions and push creative boundaries on select projects

• Consider every part of the experience, from motion to visual polish to implementation

• Contribute motion and visual assets to the design system

• Help define and standardize motion patterns that scale across teams

• Assist in maintaining consistency across iOS, Android, and web surfaces

• Experiment with AI tools (e.g., generative design, motion exploration, workflow automation) to accelerate design output and iteration speed

• Identify opportunities to improve design workflows using AI and measure the impact on speed or quality
  

• Experience with product design (not just marketing or brand motion)

• Familiarity with platform-specific motion patterns for iOS and Android

• Understanding of implementation constraints (CSS animations, Lottie, React Native, native animations)

• Experience contributing to or working within a design system

• Proficiency in Cinema 4D, Blender, or other 3D tools

• Background in data visualization or information design

• Experience using AI tools to improve design workflows or output

• Meet the Talent Acquisition team, Megha K.

• Meet the Hiring Manager (Portfolio Review – focused on one case study), Jan S.

• Hiring Manager / Behavioral Interview (learning goals, skills, and team fit)

• Background Check + Offer Stage

• Welcome to the team, Homie 🎉

Homebase is the everything app for hourly teams—built to simplify the day-to-day and superpower local businesses. With tools for scheduling, time clocks, payroll, communication, HR, and more, we help teams stay connected and in control. Today, over 150,000 small (but mighty) businesses rely on us to make work radically easier. Together, we’ve tracked over a billion hours for 2M+ workers—and we’re just getting started.

At Homebase, we celebrate diversity and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all candidates and do not discriminate based on any legally protected status. If you need accommodations during the hiring process, please let us know—we’re committed to ensuring fair and equitable access for all.