Manager, Motion Design - Brand Creative Studio

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$198K/yr – $310K/yrManager10+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead scalable motion systems and templates that drive brand storytelling across social, digital, video, and experiential formats, collaborating closely with Brand, Netflix House, Product Marketing, and Ads to ensure consistent, high-quality motion aligned to brand intent.

  • Own the development of motion frameworks and toolkits that accelerate high-volume production while maintaining creative fidelity.
  • Coordinate cross-functional motion direction with designers, external vendors, and agency partners to deliver on-brand, audience-appropriate work.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the development of motion concepts and creative direction across campaigns, helping define how motion enhances storytelling and brand expression
  • Partner with designers and creative leads to integrate motion into early-stage concept development
  • Ensure motion solutions are aligned with brand strategy and creative intent across all touchpoints
  • Translate creative direction and brand systems into scalable motion frameworks, templates, and toolkits
  • Develop motion systems that can be applied across formats including social, digital, video, DOOH, and experiential environments
  • Support high-volume production needs, including lower-funnel assets such as banners, cutdowns, and performance-driven creative
  • Serve as a motion design partner to teams across Brand, Netflix House, Product Marketing, Ads, and Corporate Communications
  • Ensure motion work is fit-for-purpose across different audiences, channels, and business needs
  • Collaborate with and provide direction to external motion vendors and agency partners
  • Ensure external work aligns with Netflix brand standards, motion systems, and production frameworks
  • Support decisions on when work should be executed internally versus externally
  • Maintain a high bar for motion design quality across all outputs
  • Help define workflows, file structures, and best practices for motion production at scale
  • Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through templates, systems, and tooling
  • Stay current on motion design trends, tools, and emerging technologies

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in motion design within a creative agency, design studio, or scaled in-house brand team
  • An exceptional portfolio demonstrating motion design across brand, campaign, and digital work
  • Strong foundation in design, with the ability to contribute to broader visual systems beyond motion
  • Experience working across a wide range of formats, including social, digital, video, OOH, and experiential
  • Proven experience building motion templates, toolkits, or systems that support high-volume production
  • Experience managing and directing external vendors and agency partners
  • Proficiency in After Effects, Premiere, Cinema 4D, Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite; familiarity with scalable production workflows
  • Strong collaboration skills with experience working across cross-functional teams
  • Ability to move fluidly between concept development and hands-on execution
  • Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving workflows in a fast-paced environment
  • A hands-on designer who can contribute directly to the work while helping shape how motion is executed at scale

Benefits

  • Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs.
  • Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off.
  • Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.
  • See more details about our Benefits here.
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Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

Founded in 1997
Los Gatos, CA, US
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Current headcount: ~17.7K

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Median Career Experience
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