Principal Designer, Motion

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.