Staff Motion Designer

Overview Innovate with purpose At BILL, we believe in empowering the businesses that drive our economy. By replacing outdated financial processes with innovative tools, we help businesses—from startups to established brands—make smarter decisions and gain control of their operations. And we don’t stop there: we’re creating the future of financial automation so businesses can spend more time on what matters. Working here means you become part of a vision-driven team that’s ready to tackle challenges and build cutting-edge solutions. BILLders collaborate to deliver real impact for businesses that need more time in their busy weeks. BILL builds high performing teams and we seek to hire the best talent for every role. We’re committed to building a workplace that fosters inclusion and diverse perspectives, valuing each person’s unique skills and experiences. Make Your Impact Within a Rapidly Growing Fintech Company Reporting to the Creative Director, a Staff Motion Designer at BILL is responsible for bringing the brand to life by leading the development, usage, and evolution of the motion discipline at BILL. Driving foundational work streams such as brand standards, motion style guides, and templates for the brand, and leading/delivering high-bar motion work for marketing assets across digital experiences, hype videos, educational content, campaigns, email marketing, events, and more. A Staff Motion Designer contributes to, interprets, and delivers upon strategic creative briefs for complex and large projects; seeks and shares necessary information from stakeholders and partner teams; determines the best design approaches for achieving results, and coordinates contributions from other design team members. Key Responsibilities Act autonomously as a creative lead throughout fast-paced creative workflows to deliver high-bar and impactful creative marketing assets, while balancing business needs with technical and creative constraints. Interpret and contribute to strategic briefs, evaluating and proposing creative approaches inline with business needs, propose design and motion solutions, iterate execution inline with stakeholder feedback, finalize and deliver creative assets. Succinctly and professionally present work, logic, and feedback openly to senior leadership and stakeholders across Marketing and other BILL organizations, explaining changing priorities and using compelling arguments to convey conclusions and ideas. Ask clarifying questions, interpret feedback for others, and propose solutions to address efficiently. Maintain and share up-to-date expertise and best-practices relevant to common workstreams and/or touchpoints. Seek and share similar information from regular stakeholders and partners. Anticipate, flag, and propose solutions to avoid potential bottlenecks and roadblocks, and communicate project status with Project Managers regularly. Establish mechanisms to actively maintain relationships with cross-functional teams to better understand their collaboration needs, concerns, and roadmaps. Identify conflict, lead steps and dialog to resolve, and incorporate learnings into processes to mitigate future conflict. Manage and strategically iterate creative approaches, continually elevating personal creative bar and output, and driving elevated creative bar of the team. Actively identify areas for improvement across the team’s output, and develop tools to bring the team's body of work up to high-bar. Actively manage personal career development, including defining and tracking quarterly goals, and seeking feedback around job expectations, performance, and promotion cadence. Independently identify “stretch” opportunities and initiate engagement and planning. Qualifications & Experience 7+ Years of Proven Impact: A track record of high-level motion design expertise transforming complex ideas into compelling visual narratives. A deep understanding of core motion design principles, editing, compositing, UI/UX and strong design fundamentals: form, color, composition, layout, and typography. Mastery of Craft: Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud (After Effects, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop), Figma, and Lottie. 3D proficiency (Cinema 4D / Blender) and experience with creative AI workflows are a plus. Visa Sponsorship: Please note that this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must have authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future. Salary & Benefits The estimated salary ranges vary by location, and the role is eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, flexible spending & health savings account, paid holidays, paid time off, and other company benefits. Specific pay ranges by location include: San Jose: $117,400—$146,800 USD Draper, UT: $99,800—$124,700 USD Zone 1 – San Francisco Bay Area, NY, Seattle, LA: $117,400—$146,800 USD Zone 2 – CA (non-San Francisco Bay Area & LA), Austin, MA: $105,600—$132,000 USD Zone 3 – Utah, Houston, FL, NC: $99,800—$124,700 USD What’s in it for you? Redefining how businesses automate their work is a fast-paced, exciting, and fun environment. The benefits include but are not limited to health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k), HSA/FSA, holidays, paid time off, employee stock purchase program, wellness initiatives, and more. BILL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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