Okta is hiring a Motion Designer for the Brand & Creative team in Bellevue, WA (onsite). This role blends the craft of bespoke, high-visibility animation with the impact of building a central motion design system. You’ll help shape how Okta’s motion guidelines show up across major events, campaigns, social, and video, while creating reusable templates and toolkits that make on-brand motion easier for teams and agency partners.
Salary: USD 84,000 - 115,000 per year. Experience: 3+ years.
What you’ll do
- Move between scaling a central motion design system and executing custom, high-visibility animation for campaigns, events, digital, and video.
- Design, document, and maintain modular After Effects project templates, Essential Graphics (MOGRTs), and reusable motion libraries to support brand-consistent collaboration.
- Concept and produce bespoke motion packages for owned flagship events (Oktane) and major industry activations (including AWS re:Invent, RSAC, NRF), including immersive keynote walk-in loops, speaker intros, and environmental stage graphics tailored to custom LED dimensions and experiential spaces.
- Partner with a Senior Motion Designer and Creative Leads to translate high-level campaign briefs into expressive motion graphics, kinetic typography, and animated concepts for product launches, brand announcements, and company milestones.
- Create scroll-stopping motion for social channels (LinkedIn, YouTube, X) and digital touchpoints, turning complex enterprise security and AI narratives into engaging visual content.
- Collaborate with video editors and producers on title sequences, kinetic type treatments, UI animations, and motion graphic overlays for customer case studies, product sizzles, and brand films.
- Experiment with new kinetic expressions for the Okta visual identity, testing how visual language, iconography, and graphic elements behave across 2D and 3D spaces.
- Own motion assets end-to-end from styleframes and storyboarding through final animation, audio sync, rendering, compression, and delivery across broadcast, web, social, and non-standard event display formats.
What you bring
- 3+ years of dedicated motion design experience in-house at a fast-paced tech company, creative branding agency, or motion studio, with demonstrated strength in both system building and bespoke execution.
- Ability to balance structured, organized systems thinking (templates, toolkits, brand consistency) with creative agility for one-of-a-kind motion moments.
- Expert-level proficiency in Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, and the core Adobe Creative Cloud suite (Illustrator, Photoshop), with strong command of motion fundamentals such as kinetic typography, spatial staging, easing curves, rhythm, and visual hierarchy.
- Hands-on experience building modular After Effects templates and Essential Graphics/MOGRTs with standardized setups that enable scalability across teams.
- A standout reel and portfolio showing a balanced range, from large-scale event stage animations and campaign hero pieces to social content and structured motion toolkits.
- Strong working knowledge of digital video formats, aspect ratios, framerates, codecs, and render optimization across mobile, desktop, and large-format physical screens.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, including comfort advocating for motion rationale, adapting to feedback, and working iteratively in a fast-moving environment.
Tools you’ll use
Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop, Adobe Creative Cloud, Essential Graphics (MOGRTs), Cinema 4D, Blender, Redshift, Octane
Benefits
- Equity (where applicable)
- Bonus
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Flexible spending account
- Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)
Extra points (if you have them)
- Working knowledge of 3D motion design and rendering tools (Cinema 4D, Blender, Redshift, Octane).
- Familiarity with writing After Effects expressions to build smarter, automated, dynamic MOGRTs and templates.
- Experience creating motion graphics for custom LED resolutions, spatial light mapping, or experiential digital signage.
- Experience managing motion assets across multi-brand ecosystems or localizing toolkits for global marketing teams.
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