Senior Motion Designer

Senior Motion Designer/Digital Marketing

We're looking for a Senior Motion Designer to join our Creative team—a strategic visual storyteller with deep expertise in motion graphics, animation, visual effects, and scalable motion systems. This role will concept, design, animate, and deliver high-impact motion work across brand, campaign, social, digital, executive, and event channels while helping evolve how motion is created, governed, and scaled across the enterprise.

The Senior Motion Designer transforms strategy, scripts, briefs, and design direction into polished motion experiences that bring ideas to life with clarity, craft, and brand consistency.

This role spans motion graphics, animation, visual effects, typography in motion, storyboarding, style frames, concept development, editing, sound, color, and post-production for campaign videos, social content, digital advertising, executive communications, event content, explainers, templates, and modular motion assets.

The ideal candidate can own complex motion assignments from concept through delivery, elevate the brand's motion language, build reusable systems and templates, and support scalable production models, self-service tools, and AI-enabled creative workflows.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Create Motion Graphics, Animation & Visual Effects
• Develop Storyboards, Style Frames & Motion Concepts
• Build Motion Systems, Templates & Reusable Assets
• Advance Motion Standards, Governance & Accessibility
• Collaborate Across Creative & Marketing Teams
• Support Scalable Production & AI-Enabled Workflows

Skills/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in film, video production, motion design, animation, graphic design, or equivalent experience.
• 5-7+ years of motion design, animation, and video experience in an agency, in-house, studio, or production environment.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro; working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, Media Encoder, Figma, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, and review tools.
• Experience in using MS Office (Word, Power Point) using Work Front or similar project management tool.
• Strong command of motion graphics, animation principles, visual effects, motion typography, editorial pacing, storytelling, sound, color, and finishing.
• Experience delivering content across channels, specifications, and formats, including 16:9, 1:1, 4:5, and 9:16.
• Knowledge of production and post-production workflows, file formats, codecs, media management, template creation, captioning, accessibility, and delivery standards.
• Ability to manage complex projects independently, collaborate effectively, and deliver high-quality work under deadline.
• Experience building reusable motion systems, templates, style frames, and asset libraries that enable consistent and scalable production.
• Strong portfolio or reel demonstrating motion graphics, animation, visual effects, storyboarding, style frames, and video work across campaigns and content types.

Key mindset:

• Collaborative: navigates feedback, timelines, and stakeholder dynamics with a low-ego approach.
• Future-focused: curious about how emerging tools, AI-enabled workflows, and self-service models can responsibly support creative delivery.
• Story-first: uses editing and motion to communicate with clarity and impact.
• Growth-oriented: open to feedback, iteration, experimentation, and critique.
• Curious and proactive: asks smart questions, surfaces risks early, and pushes the work beyond "done."

Working Model: Hybrid (#LI-Hybrid)

We have a balanced hybrid working model to ensure you get the flexibility you need, and the successful candidate will spend their time between working in the office and working from home.

Salary Range:

$83,100 - 141,300 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).

Working with Us

As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.

Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust's history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.

Reasonable Accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at View email address on click.appcast.io, or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.