Senior Motion Designer

Lead motion design efforts for integrated marketing campaigns, translating creative strategy into high-quality animation across digital and brand channels.

Responsibilities

• Senior-level motion designer with strong graphic design skills that elevate campaigns across digital marketing and brand channels
• Maintain an unmistakable, consistent creative voice across executions using advanced Adobe workflows
• Operate effectively in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing and delivering multiple motion projects at once without compromising quality
• Translate creative briefs for brand and marketing campaign strategies into polished motion graphics from style frames and storyboards through finished animation
• Create motion systems featuring strong typography, transitions, and visual effects within established creative direction
• Own the end-to-end motion production pipeline: asset prep, animation, rendering, optimization, and delivery across multiple formats and aspect ratios
• Collaborate with copywriters, designers, and strategists to keep campaigns consistent and on brand
• Incorporate generative AI tools into creative workflows
• Stay current on emerging design tools and trends, contributing to a culture of feedback and continuous improvement

Requirements

• Advanced proficiency in After Effects including advanced expressions, scripting, and complex compositing workflows
• Domain expert in Photoshop and Illustrator, with strong motion design, compositing, image manipulation, and vector design skills
• Proficient in Cinema 4D (or Blender) for 3D modeling, texturing, lighting, and virtual camera work
• Ability to composite 3D renders seamlessly into 2D motion pieces
• Expert understanding of animation principles, typography, transitions, visual effects, and building polished motion systems for digital, social, and video campaigns
• Strong foundation in layout, typography, color, composition, branding, and visual storytelling across static and motion creative
• Ability to translate creative briefs and brand strategies into visual concepts, style frames, storyboards, and finished executions
• Comfort managing complex After Effects projects, including asset preparation, rendering, optimization, and delivery across multiple formats and aspect ratios
• 8+ years of professional visual design experience in an agency or in-house creative team
• Strong portfolio or reel showing range, craft, and senior-level motion and graphic design work
• Ability to design across multiple channels and formats, with digital marketing experience as a strong plus
• Fast worker who maintains quality, with a strong personal point of view and original creative instincts
• Excellent time management and ability to context-switch between multiple projects in a fast-paced environment

Technologies

• Adobe Creative Suite
• After Effects (advanced expressions, scripting, complex compositing workflow)
• Photoshop, Illustrator
• Cinema 4D, Blender
• Generative AI tools
• Figma
• AI animation/video tools
• Google Web Designer
• HTML5 display ads

Benefits

• Performance bonuses
• Stock purchase options
• Medical/Vision/Dental benefits
• 401k plan
• 20 paid vacation days (plus an additional paid vacation day in the month of your birthday)
• 10 paid sick days
• Gym membership reimbursement
• Commuter benefits
• Pet insurance
• Wellness & mental health programs
• Charitable donation matching
• Two paid volunteer days off
• Daily catered lunch when in the office
• Full kitchen with snacks and beverages
• In-building gym
• Shuttle to/from Metra

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Figma for digital design, collaborative workflows working with design systems, and UI-based creative
• Experience using generative AI and AI animation/video tools to concept, generate, modify, and accelerate creative production
• Working knowledge of building and designing animated HTML5 display ads in Google Web Designer or similar software

Compensation

• Salary range: $90,000-$135,000 per year
• Discretionary performance bonus: 8-12% of base salary based on individual and company performance

Location: Chicago, IL (onsite)