Motion Designer — Midwestern, United States

As a Motion Designer for our client, you will be a visual storyteller responsible for bringing our clients’ stories to life through video. We make videos for mission-driven organizations, and we get to tell their stories: lives saved, slaves freed, healing found, and hope restored. You will take high-level concepts and turn them into motion work that moves people to action, across a wide range of brands and campaigns.

This role requires a unique blend of creative vision, technical skill in After Effects and motion tools, and the speed and organization to deliver high-quality work across multiple client brands at once, often on tight timelines.

Core Responsibilities

• Concept, design, and animate motion work that communicates an image, a message, and generates a response.

• Take high-level concepts and strategy and turn them into finished motion pieces.

• Work within multiple client brand style guides at once, keeping each brand accurate and distinct.

• Art direct in certain scenarios, guiding the visual approach for a project or campaign.

• Independently bring fresh new ideas to client work.

• Plan and prioritize a large number of concurrent projects under deadline pressure.

• Figure out things you’ve never done before and troubleshoot quickly when problems come up.

• Be scrappy with resources to deliver high-quality work on tight timelines.

• Take in constructive feedback and revise work quickly and well.

What Success Looks Like

• Motion work is delivered on schedule, on brand, and ready for client review with minimal rounds of revision.

• Clients and internal teams see your work move audiences to action and raise the creative standard across accounts.

Required

• 2+ years of commercial agency experience.

• Proficiency in After Effects

• Fast and good: high-quality output at a high pace.

• A digital-native mindset and a passion for solving design problems.

• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities at once.

• Handles constructive criticism well.

Preferred

• Working knowledge of Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, Audition, and Premiere.

• Degree in design (BFA, BS, or BDes preferred).

• Experience art directing projects.

• Familiarity with nonprofit / cause marketing creative.