Illustrator, Animator, UI/UX designer

About the company

Inner Child Care is an early-stage startup developing a gamified mental wellbeing app for adults who did not receive enough love, care, or emotional support during childhood.

Our goal is to help users strengthen self-love, self-worth, and their relationship with themselves through inner-child and reparenting practices.

We are a small international team, and we are looking for an Illustrator, Animator, UI/UX designer as one person who will help us redesign our existing app, design new features, redraw and animate our avatar.

Previous professional experience is not required. We care more about your fine art skills, graphic design, initiative, communication skills, creativity, willingness to learn, and ambitions: you will be fully responsible for how our brand looks and feels and thus you have a potential to grow into a lead who owns a brand and a team, if you have this ambition, then C1+ English is required.

Responsibilities

Avatar design and animation

• Your first task will be to redesign and redraw our existing avatar, making it more appealing to an adult audience while keeping it warm, expressive, and emotionally engaging.
• Develop its animations, including movements, expressions, emotions, and reactions.
• Establish a consistent visual style that we can develop further as the product grows.

App design

• Redesign our existing app and design interfaces for new features.
• Bring your own ideas about how the app should look and feel, and develop them through feedback from the CEO and collaboration with developers.
• Learn and apply UI/UX principles along the way. Previous UI/UX experience is not required. Creativity, visual taste, and a clear design vision are more important at the start.

Website design

• Redesign our website to reflect the visual direction of the app and brand. This is a lower priority than the avatar and app.

Marketing visuals and creative content

• Work closely with our marketer to create Instagram posts and other marketing materials.
• Develop a consistent, recognizable illustration style for our social content.
• Use AI tools as part of your creative workflow, refining the results to meet your visual standards.
• Depending on your skills, create short cartoons and animated stories using AI or other animation tools.

Your first three months will focus on the avatar redesign and animation, alongside ongoing collaboration with our marketer. The app redesign will follow, with the website coming later.

Requirements

• Strong drawing skills and graphic design.
• Ability to research competitors and analyse how they design and implement similar features.
• The ability to create animations. Professional experience is not required, but you should already be able to work with animations. It’ll be your test task.
• Understanding of UI/UX and a willingness to learn interface design.
• Understanding of composition, colour, and form.
• A willingness to use AI tools in your creative work.
• Creativity, initiative, and the confidence to suggest your own ideas.
• Honesty and open communication. We expect you to be comfortable saying when you do not know something, asking questions, and seeking help.
• The ability to work independently, take responsibility, and respond constructively to feedback.

Familiarity with Figma and other design or animation tools is a plus. We do not require a particular software toolkit.

Why join us

This is a broad role combining illustration, animation, and design. You will work on different kinds of tasks, make creative decisions, and take responsibility for bringing your ideas from initial sketches to finished work.

That breadth will be challenging, but it also offers the opportunity to develop a wide range of practical skills and build a portfolio around a real product. You will be able to see how your work shapes the character, brand, marketing, and user experience.

If you have leadership ambitions, there is room to grow with the company, take ownership of the creative direction, and eventually lead a team.

What we offer:

• Base salary starting from $500 per month.
• Equity/stock after three months of work.
• Access to consultations with experienced marketing specialists when needed.
• Educational materials and support with developing your skills.
• The opportunity to join an early-stage startup and directly influence how the product and its marketing grow.

Telegram: @ruslan_kalinovych Site: https://www.innerchild.care/