Lead Motion 3D Designer - UK (remote)

Fanatics Betting & Gaming; United States; Remote; USD 82,000 - 102,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking an experienced lead for motion and 3D to own the brand and performance creative across campaigns. You will craft hands-on motion, build assets, and shape a scalable asset library while guiding a small team.

You will lead the creative standard, mentor peers, and collaborate with brand and product teams to ensure high-polish outputs across paid, organic and in-product channels.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in motion, design and 3D, with at least 2 leading or owning a motion function.
• Experience managing a small team.
• A strong understanding of performance creative and the metrics behind it.
• A reel that demonstrates both motion and 3D convincingly, alongside the systems and templates behind it.
• Expert editing, After Effects and Cinema 4D skills.
• Strong design fundamentals: type, composition and colour, alongside your animation craft.
• Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite along with Figma experience. Comfort working inside a design system.
• The ability to run several deliverables and render deadlines at once, calmly.
• Good judgement about where AI video and image tools add real value.

Responsibilities

• Lead motion and 3D across brand campaigns, feature launches, social, CRM and in-product promotions.
• Build 2D and 3D assets and scenes for game launches, product and brand moments across campaigns.
• Own and scale a reusable 3D and motion asset library, with templates and rigs the rest of the team can pick up.
• Own and evolve Casino’s motion principles, holding the standard across everything that moves.
• Oversee the performance motion and design output, keeping craft high as it scales.
• Lead, mentor and review the team’s motion work, giving feedback that is specific enough to act on.
• Bring in freelance, studio or agency support when volume spikes, and art-direct external motion and 3D partners.
• Storyboard and pitch motion ideas early, shaping concepts while they’re still forming.
• Edit, grade and finish video, including versioning and cutdowns for every channel.
• Present motion work to senior leadership and explain the thinking behind it.
• Make sure disclaimer and responsible gaming messaging in video is legible, correctly timed and on screen long enough to be read comfortably.

Skills

Motion design

3D animation

Team leadership

Performance creative

After Effects

Cinema 4D

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Design systems

Time management

AI tooling

Tools

After Effects

Cinema 4D

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Job description

About Us

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.

The role

A casino should feel alive. This role is how we do that. A brand campaign film, feature launch animation, in-product motion, and the 3D asset library that increasingly underpins how Casino looks everywhere.

You’ll own how Fanatics Casino moves. You’ll set the standard with hands-on craft, lead the motion and 3D work across the team, and stay close enough to the work to shape it yourself. This is a hands-on, lead role with real conceptual craft in it. Your remit covers both brand and performance creative that runs across our paid channels.

What you’ll do

• Lead motion and 3D across brand campaigns, feature launches, social, CRM and in-product promotions.
• Build 2D and 3D assets and scenes for game launches, product and brand moments across campaigns.
• Own and scale a reusable 3D and motion asset library, with templates and rigs the rest of the team can pick up.
• Own and evolve Casino’s motion principles, holding the standard across everything that moves.
• Oversee the performance motion and design output, keeping craft high as it scales.
• Lead, mentor and review the team’s motion work, giving feedback that is specific enough to act on.
• Bring in freelance, studio or agency support when volume spikes, and art-direct external motion and 3D partners.
• Storyboard and pitch motion ideas early, shaping concepts while they’re still forming.
• Edit, grade and finish video, including versioning and cutdowns for every channel.
• Present motion work to senior leadership and explain the thinking behind it.
• Make sure disclaimer and responsible gaming messaging in video is legible, correctly timed and on screen long enough to be read comfortably.

What you bring

• 7+ years in motion, design and 3D, with at least 2 leading or owning a motion function.
• Experience managing a small team.
• A strong understanding of performance creative and the metrics behind it.
• Al reel that demonstrates both motion and 3D convincingly, alongside the systems and templates behind it.
• Expert editing, After Effects and Cinema 4D skills.
• Strong design fundamentals: type, composition and colour, alongside your animation craft.
• Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite along with Figma experience. Comfort working inside a design system.
• The ability to run several deliverables and render deadlines at once, calmly.
• Good judgement about where AI video and image tools add real value.

Bonus points

• Sound design or audio finishing.
• Experience animating app or game UI.
• Experience building a motion or 3D capability from the ground up.

Your first 90 days

You’ll work hand in glove with the internal creative and brand teams, creating high polish animated assets for campaign, paid and organic output, and set out how motion and 3D will scale across the team.

For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

Ranges will change based on country and state of residence, which are reflected in Geographical Zones defined by Fanatics Betting and Gaming. The range incorporates all of our Geographical Compensation Zones and is subject to change as the Zone associated with the actual offer is confirmed. In addition to the base and bonus, full-time employment, and more. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

Salary Range

£61,000—£76,000 GBP

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