Sr. Motion Designer

Accountabilities

• Design and produce high-quality motion work across product explainers, website animations, paid social content, keynote and event experiences, campaign assets, and other brand touchpoints.
• Transform UI frames and product concepts into polished product demonstrations and feature explainers, ensuring that animation clearly communicates functionality, value, and user experience.
• Develop straightforward storyboards independently when appropriate, enabling projects to move efficiently from concept to production without unnecessary handoffs.
• Help define and evolve a distinctive motion design language by creating branded patterns, timing principles, transitions, and visual behaviors that establish consistency across digital surfaces.
• Build reusable motion systems, including guidelines, component libraries, and mogrts files, enabling designers, social teams, and other partners to create high-quality work independently.
• Explore and implement tools such as Jitter, Figma Motion, and emerging AI-powered video technologies to improve creative workflows and expand the team's capabilities.
• Produce short-form video variations for paid social testing, adapting concepts across different formats, messages, and creative angles.
• Develop recurring product video formats into scalable templates that can be reused efficiently across future product launches.
• Collaborate closely with brand design, design operations, product marketing, product design, web, social, and external agencies to deliver cohesive creative work.
• Bring motion expertise proactively into creative and stakeholder discussions, clearly explaining the strategic reasoning behind creative choices and helping partners understand the role of motion.
• Contribute to a culture of experimentation and knowledge sharing by testing new creative technologies and sharing effective workflows and learnings with the wider team.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience in motion design, ideally within brand, product, digital, marketing, or technology-focused creative environments, with a portfolio demonstrating strong motion craft and storytelling.
• Strong ability to transform brand briefs, UI frames, and product concepts into compelling visual stories that communicate clearly and engage audiences.
• Deep understanding of motion principles, including timing, easing, rhythm, pacing, transitions, and visual personality, with the ability to create work that feels distinctive rather than generic.
• Strong understanding of brand and UI design, with the ability to balance expressive creative direction with functional product communication.
• Excellent storytelling and narrative instincts, including the ability to structure motion through setup, tension, resolution, pacing, and intentional moments of emphasis.
• Strong systems-thinking mindset and experience creating reusable motion guidelines, component libraries, templates, or other tools that enable teams to work more efficiently and consistently.
• Strong understanding of sound and rhythm, with the ability to intentionally integrate audio and motion to strengthen the overall creative experience.
• Comfortable working directly from product UI and collaborating with product designers and other technical or creative stakeholders.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence to advocate for creative decisions, explain the reasoning behind them, and proactively influence projects.
• Experience experimenting with AI-powered creative and video tools, with genuine curiosity about how emerging technology can improve creative workflows and production.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity, managing changing priorities, and taking initiative without requiring fully defined briefs or processes.
• Highly collaborative and adaptable, with the ability to work effectively across internal teams and external creative partners.
• Education is not required; practical experience, creative ability, and demonstrated expertise through your portfolio are valued.

Benefits

• Fully remote working environment within the eligible EMEA region.
• Opportunity to work on high-visibility motion projects spanning product, brand, web, social, campaigns, and events.
• High degree of ownership and autonomy within a small, collaborative creative team.
• Opportunity to shape and establish a distinctive motion design system and influence how motion is produced across the broader organization.
• Exposure to emerging AI and creative technologies as part of everyday design and production workflows.
• Opportunities to build scalable systems, templates, and tooling that expand your impact beyond individual projects.
• Inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives, empathy, and authentic contributions.
• Strong focus on professional growth, experimentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous creative development.
• Flexible remote culture designed to support collaboration across distributed teams.
• Reasonable accommodations available throughout the recruitment and interview process for candidates who require them.