Visual & Motion Design Intern

• 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? • This is a 6-month, full-time, hybrid internship based in our Toronto, San Francisco, or Denver office with mentorship from senior designers • 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 • This is a hands-on maker role. You’ll create motion studies, UI animations, micro-interactions, and visual refinements that make our product feel alive, responsive, and delightful • Whether it’s a subtle loading state, a satisfying transition, data visualizations, or a moment of celebration, your work will shape how our product feels across iOS, Android, and the web • 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 • 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 Benefits • Stock Options • Paid parental leave • Generous paid time off options • Offsites, customer days & social events • Work from Anywhere Month • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) matching program • Pre-tax commuter benefits • Snacks + lunch on us at hub offices • MasterClass at Work for ongoing learning • Group health benefits coverage • Snacks + lunch on us at hub offices • Group RRSP with employer match + TFSA • MasterClass at Work for ongoing learning Apply tot his job Apply To this Job