Senior Lead Motion Designer
$105,000–$120,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Lead a team of animators and contracted collaborators by setting expectations, providing direct feedback, and establishing excellence in motion craft. Stay hands-on to create and direct animatics, motion graphics, branded pieces, and UI animation when project load demands it. Review all motion work before client delivery, evaluating whether animations serve client intent and clear quality standards. Act as a key voice for motion design in client-facing settings, identifying opportunities to expand motion work and articulating its value to prospects. Establish and maintain creative standards, workflows, and production practices while collaborating with Creative Project Managers and other discipline leads. This role reports to the Associate Creative Director within a fully remote, human-centered creative agency that is actively exploring AI tools to enhance motion production.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional motion design experience
- Led or mentored other animators or motion designers
- Agency experience
- Strong proficiency in Adobe After Effects
- Working familiarity with Cinema 4D, Maya, Premiere, and Frame.io
- Comfortable in client-facing settings
- Have a reel and portfolio that shows both craft and range
- Worked with enterprise clients
- Open, growth-oriented mindset about AI
- Must be able to lead and direct others' output
- Client conversations, presentations, and upselling motion design feel energizing
- Creative standards are not already set
- Must have led other animators or motion designers
- Must be comfortable with leading and directing others' output
- Must be energized by client conversations, presentations, and upselling motion design
- Must be able to establish and own creative standards
- Must be able to identify opportunities to expand motion work within existing accounts
- Must be able to articulate the value of motion in client conversations
- Must be able to help prospective clients understand what's possible
- Must be able to review work across the motion discipline
- Must be able to evaluate whether animation serves client intent
- Must be able to flag what needs another pass
- Must be able to explain why work needs another pass
- Must be able to partner with Creative PMs
- Must be able to collaborate across disciplines
- Must be able to represent motion to clients and prospects
- Must be able to set expectations
- Must be able to give direct and constructive feedback
- Must be able to establish what excellence looks like
- Must be able to create and direct animatics
- Must be able to create motion graphics
- Must be able to create branded motion pieces
- Must be able to create UI/interface animation
- Must be able to work in a remote environment
- Must be able to work Pacific hours
- Must be US-based
- Must be available for full-time work
- Must be able to work with rotating groups of individual collaborators
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with working familiarity with Cinema 4D, Maya, Premiere, and Frame.io
- Experience with Adobe After Effects
- Experience with enterprise clients
- Experience with agency work
- Experience with leading and mentoring other animators or motion designers
- Experience with client-facing settings
- Experience with having a reel and portfolio
- Experience with an open, growth-oriented mindset about AI
- Experience with establishing and maintaining creative standards
- Experience with workflows and production practices
- Experience with cross-discipline collaboration
- Experience with identifying opportunities to expand motion work within existing accounts
- Experience with articulating the value of motion in client conversations
- Experience with helping prospective clients understand what's possible
- Experience with reviewing work across the motion discipline
- Experience with evaluating whether animation serves client intent
- Experience with flagging what needs another pass
- Experience with explaining why work needs another pass
- Experience with partnering with Creative PMs
- Experience with collaborating across disciplines
- Experience with representing motion to clients and prospects
- Experience with setting expectations
- Experience with giving direct and constructive feedback
- Experience with establishing what excellence looks like
- Experience with creating and directing animatics
- Experience with creating motion graphics
- Experience with creating branded motion pieces
- Experience with creating UI/interface animation
- Experience with working in a remote environment
- Experience with working Pacific hours
- Experience with being US-based
- Experience with being available for full-time work
- Experience with working with rotating groups of individual collaborators
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