Principal Designer, Motion

New York City, NY (On-site)

$105K/yr – $140K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end motion design process from brief to finished video, leading concepts, production, and collaboration with marketing partners.

  • Drive concepting, storyboard and style frames.
  • Align with Creative Director and Ops on timing, standards and risk.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Run your projects from brief to finished video.
  • Craft concepts, storyboards, and style frames from the Creative Director's vision.
  • Bring your own ideas to your projects and to team brainstorms.
  • Present your work to the team and marketing partners.
  • 2D animation, motion graphics, titles, and design led video for social, paid, web, sales, and events.
  • Edit footage: pacing, color, sound, music, and versions for every format.
  • Shoot your own idea when a project calls for it.
  • Guide external partners so their animation meets our standards.
  • Work with Ops on timing and flag risk early.
  • Help build our motion guidelines with the Creative Director: timing, transitions, type, and sound.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in motion design and video, including ideas that were yours.
  • A reel of strong work you carried from idea to finish. Link and password, please.
  • Deep After Effects and Premiere. Strong Photoshop, Illustrator, and Figma.
  • You understand design fundamentals like type, composition, color, and pacing. Your work looks designed, not just animated.
  • Self directed. You take a brief and come back with options.
  • Comfortable presenting and explaining your work.
  • Can shoot your own footage and cut it well.

Preferred

  • B2B experience. Real estate, hospitality, or professional services.
  • Versioning work for different markets and languages.
  • 3D or compositing, though not a big part of what we make today.

Benefits

  • Full-time employees are eligible for comprehensive benefits (subject to the terms of applicable plans/policies/agreements, which will be made available to you after commencing employment), including: 20 days of PTO, approximately 13 paid holidays, and 80 hours of paid sick time per full calendar year; 16 weeks paid parental leave; competitive healthcare benefits; 401k plan; and life and AD&D insurance.

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