Animator (Freelance & Full Time)

Butler Shine Stern & Partners; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Butler Shine Stern & Partners in El Segundo, CA is seeking animators to join our fast-paced social content team. This full-time role covers creating punchy motion for social posts, reels and stories, resizing assets across formats, and delivering on-brand animations with clean timing and expressive motion.

You will collaborate with creative and production teams, follow brand standards, and help keep a high-volume workflow moving.

Qualifications

• Strong After Effects skills and a solid motion reel.
• Portfolio showing social animation and multi-format resizing.
• Excellent timing, typography and layout across aspect ratios.
• Organized, collaborative, able to manage many deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Create simple, polished animations for social posts, stories, reels and short-form video from approved creative.
• Animate type, logos and product shots with clean timing and easing.
• Build short cutdowns and loops (6s, 15s, GIF) optimized for each platform.
• Follow brand guidelines and motion standards so every piece feels on-brand and on-spec.
• QA exports before shipping and keep project files organized for team access.

Skills

After Effects

Typography & layout

Motion design

Time management

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

Adobe Media Encoder

Premiere Pro

Figma

Canva

Job description

About this position

BSSP is an independent creative agency built on the belief that the best work comes from people who push each other, and push past the obvious. We're collaborators first: strategists, creatives, producers and analysts working side by side, because great ideas rarely come from one desk. We bring a challenger mindset to everything we make, questioning assumptions (including our own) to find a sharper answer. And we're ambitious, for our clients' brands, for the work, and for each other's growth. If that sounds like how you like to work, we'd love to meet you.

The Role

We're hiring Animators, full-time in El Segundo, CA and freelance remote from California, to bring our social content to life and keep a high volume of deliverables moving. The work ranges from simple, punchy motion for social posts to the steady, detail-driven job of resizing and versioning assets across every platform and spec. You'll turn approved creative into scroll-stopping motion, collaborating closely with Creative and Production, bringing the ambition to make even a quick cutdown feel crafted, and the challenger mindset to suggest a smarter way to build it.

Social Animation

• Create simple, polished animations for social posts, stories, reels and short-form video from approved creative
• Animate type, logos, product shots and graphic elements with clean timing and easing
• Build short cutdowns and loops (6s, 15s, GIF) optimized for each platform
• Add motion to static layouts to lift engagement without overcomplicating the design
• Follow brand guidelines and motion standards so every piece feels on-brand
• Export to platform specs for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and paid social

Resizes & Adaptations

• Resize and reformat animated and static assets across aspect ratios (1:1, 4:5, 9:16, 16:9) and placements
• Version master files for different copy, offers, languages or end cards
• Adapt layouts so key messages and logos stay legible and safe in every format
• Meet file size, length and format specs for each platform and media partner
• QA every export before it ships, catching typos, timing issues and spec misses
• Keep project files organized, named and archived so anyone on the team can pick them up

Full-Time vs. Freelance

We're hiring for both. The work is the same; the engagement differs. Freelance include day rate/hourly rate.

Full time salary is based on skill, location and portfolio.

What Excellence Looks Like

• Deliverables ship on time, to spec and error-free the first time
• Simple animations feel intentional and on-brand, never generic
• Big resize batches move fast without losing quality or consistency
• Creative teams trust you to take a static layout and make it move well with minimal direction
• You leave the process better than you found it: cleaner templates, faster workflows, fewer revisions

What You Bring

• Open question: years of experience to require (agency or in-house motion/social work preferred)
• A portfolio or reel showing social animation and multi-format resizing
• Strong After Effects skills, plus Photoshop, Illustrator and Adobe Media Encoder
• Familiarity with Premiere Pro, Figma or Canva is a plus
• A solid grasp of typography, timing and layout across aspect ratios
• Working knowledge of social platform specs and best practices
• Organized, detail-obsessed and comfortable juggling many deliverables at once
• Clear communication and a low-ego, collaborative approach to feedback

BSSP is an independent creative agency built on the belief that the best work comes from people who push each other, and push past the obvious. We're collaborators first: strategists, creatives, producers and analysts working side by side, because great ideas rarely come from one desk. We bring a challenger mindset to everything we make, questioning assumptions (including our own) to find a sharper answer. And we're ambitious, for our clients' brands, for the work, and for each other's growth. If that sounds like how you like to work, we'd love to meet you.

The Role

We're hiring Animators, full-time in El Segundo, CA and freelance remote from California, to bring our social content to life and keep a high volume of deliverables moving. The work ranges from simple, punchy motion for social posts to the steady, detail-driven job of resizing and versioning assets across every platform and spec. You'll turn approved creative into scroll-stopping motion, collaborating closely with Creative and Production, bringing the ambition to make even a quick cutdown feel crafted, and the challenger mindset to suggest a smarter way to build it.

Social Animation

• Create simple, polished animations for social posts, stories, reels and short-form video from approved creative
• Animate type, logos, product shots and graphic elements with clean timing and easing
• Build short cutdowns and loops (6s, 15s, GIF) optimized for each platform
• Add motion to static layouts to lift engagement without overcomplicating the design
• Follow brand guidelines and motion standards so every piece feels on-brand
• Export to platform specs for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and paid social

Resizes & Adaptations

• Resize and reformat animated and static assets across aspect ratios (1:1, 4:5, 9:16, 16:9) and placements
• Version master files for different copy, offers, languages or end cards
• Adapt layouts so key messages and logos stay legible and safe in every format
• Meet file size, length and format specs for each platform and media partner
• QA every export before it ships, catching typos, timing issues and spec misses
• Keep project files organized, named and archived so anyone on the team can pick them up

Collaboration & Craft

• Partner with Art Directors and Designers to interpret creative intent and bring it to life in motion
• Work with Project Management on timelines, priorities and turnaround for high-volume batches
• Coordinate with Social and Account teams on platform requirements and client feedback
• Take direction well, turn revisions quickly and flag issues early
• Bring ideas: suggest motion approaches, templates or workflows that make the work better or faster

Full-Time vs. Freelance

We're hiring for both. The work is the same; the engagement differs. Freelance include day rate/hourly rate.

Full time salary is based on skill, location and portfolio.

What Excellence Looks Like

• Deliverables ship on time, to spec and error-free the first time
• Simple animations feel intentional and on-brand, never generic
• Big resize batches move fast without losing quality or consistency
• Creative teams trust you to take a static layout and make it move well with minimal direction
• You leave the process better than you found it: cleaner templates, faster workflows, fewer revisions

What You Bring

• Open question: years of experience to require (agency or in-house motion/social work preferred)
• A portfolio or reel showing social animation and multi-format resizing
• Strong After Effects skills, plus Photoshop, Illustrator and Adobe Media Encoder
• Familiarity with Premiere Pro, Figma or Canva is a plus
• A solid grasp of typography, timing and layout across aspect ratios
• Working knowledge of social platform specs and best practices
• Organized, detail-obsessed and comfortable juggling many deliverables at once
• Clear communication and a low-ego, collaborative approach to feedback

The pay range for this role is:
70,000 - 85,000 USD per year(El Segundo (LA))
40 - 65 USD per hour(El Segundo (LA))

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