Motion Designer

Motion Designer

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Motion Designer to create, edit, and polish high-quality video and motion assets for customer-facing, marketing, and social media experiences. This role requires a strong creative eye, advanced motion design expertise, and the ability to bring stories and product moments to life through compelling visual execution. The ideal candidate has 2-4 years of motion design experience and is highly proficient in Adobe After Effects and/or Premiere Pro, and other industry-standard design and video production tools. They should be comfortable working from original, raw files; developing motion concepts; editing video content; refining visual details; and, delivering polished assets that meet brand, quality, and platform requirements. Success in this role also requires strong production discipline and excellent communication skills around timelines and deliverables across product, design, and other partners. This individual must be able to manage naming conventions, version tracking, file organization, production milestones, timelines, deliverables, and status reporting to ensure work is delivered accurately, efficiently, and on schedule, aligning to tight turnaround times and shifting priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Create high-quality motion graphics, video edits, animations, and visual treatments for customer-facing, marketing, and social media use.
• Translate original files and product narratives into compelling video and motion design assets.
• Develop polished visual executions that support storytelling, product education, and customer engagement.
• Edit and refine video content to improve pacing, clarity, visual quality, and overall impact.
• Edit raw footage, screen captures, product demos, animations, and visual assets into cohesive finished videos.
• Apply transitions, typography, motion effects, sound sync, color adjustments, and visual polish, as needed, to meet quality standards.
• Prepare video outputs for multiple formats, channels, and aspect ratios, including customer presentations, marketing campaigns, and social platforms.
• Ensure final deliverables are accurate, brand-aligned, accessible, and ready for stakeholder review or publication.
• Apply strong visual design judgment across composition, timing, typography, hierarchy, pacing, and storytelling.
• Maintain consistency with brand guidelines, design direction, and product experience standards.
• Identify opportunities to improve clarity, visual appeal, and customer relevance through motion and editing choices.
• Deliver work that balances creative excellence with practical production needs, business goals, and milestones/due dates.
• Manage production responsibilities including file naming conventions, asset organization, version control, and delivery tracking.
• Maintain clear production timelines, milestones, deliverable schedules, and status updates across assigned projects.
• Track feedback, revisions, approvals, and final outputs to ensure work remains accurate and organized.
• Proactively communicate risks, blockers, dependencies, and changes that may affect delivery quality or timing.
• Partner with design, product, and business stakeholders to understand goals and translate feedback into effective creative execution.
• Drive proactive communication, ensuring clear insights into timelines, deliverables, and blockers.
• Support reviews by preparing clear design options, revised cuts, and final motion/video assets for stakeholder evaluation.
• Work collaboratively in fast-moving production environments with evolving priorities, tight timelines, and multiple concurrent deliverables.
• Contribute creative recommendations that improve storytelling, customer understanding, and asset performance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Motion Design, Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Film/Video Production, Digital Media, Studio Art/Fine Art, or related field.
• 2-4 years of professional motion design, video editing, or digital production experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe After Effects and/or Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Experience using additional creative tools such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Experience and background with Microsoft 365 products, including Copilot, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating motion graphics, video editing, visual storytelling, and polished production execution.
• Experience creating video and motion assets for marketing, customer-facing, social, digital, or product-related content.
• Strong understanding of motion principles, typography, pacing, composition, visual hierarchy, and brand consistency.
• Ability to manage file organization, naming conventions, version tracking, timelines, milestones, and production deliverables.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining high quality and attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience creating motion or video content for technology, productivity, SaaS, or enterprise customer scenarios.
• Familiarity with accessibility considerations for video, including captions, readable text, contrast, and clear visual communication.
• Experience working in structured production environments with formal review cycles, stakeholder feedback, and delivery tracking.

The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $45.00 - $50.00 /hr. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.