Motion Designer

Midwestern; United States; On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Midwestern is seeking a Motion Designer to craft compelling motion work that tells mission-driven stories for diverse client brands. You’ll transform high-level concepts into dynamic video pieces using After Effects and related tools, delivering fast and high-quality results across multiple campaigns.

You should thrive in a fast-paced agency environment, handle multiple projects simultaneously, and bring a digital-native mindset with strong problem-solving and attention to detail.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of commercial agency experience.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities at once.

Responsibilities

• Concept, design, and animate motion work that communicates an image, a message, and generates a response.
• Take high-level concepts and strategy and turn them into finished motion pieces.
• Work within multiple client brand style guides at once, keeping each brand accurate and distinct.
• Art direct in certain scenarios, guiding the visual approach for a project or campaign.
• Independently bring fresh new ideas to client work.
• Plan and prioritize a large number of concurrent projects under deadline pressure.
• Figure out things you’ve never done before and troubleshoot quickly when problems come up.
• Be scrappy with resources to deliver high-quality work on tight timelines.
• Take in constructive feedback and revise work quickly and well.

Job description

As a Motion Designer for our client, you will be a visual storyteller responsible for bringing our clients’ stories to life through video. We make videos for mission-driven organizations, and we get to tell their stories: lives saved, slaves freed, healing found, and hope restored. You will take high-level concepts and turn them into motion work that moves people to action, across a wide range of brands and campaigns.

This role requires a unique blend of creative vision, technical skill in After Effects and motion tools, and the speed and organization to deliver high-quality work across multiple client brands at once, often on tight timelines.

Core Responsibilities

• Concept, design, and animate motion work that communicates an image, a message, and generates a response.
• Take high-level concepts and strategy and turn them into finished motion pieces.
• Work within multiple client brand style guides at once, keeping each brand accurate and distinct.
• Art direct in certain scenarios, guiding the visual approach for a project or campaign.
• Independently bring fresh new ideas to client work.
• Plan and prioritize a large number of concurrent projects under deadline pressure.
• Figure out things you’ve never done before and troubleshoot quickly when problems come up.
• Be scrappy with resources to deliver high-quality work on tight timelines.
• Take in constructive feedback and revise work quickly and well.

What Success Looks Like

• Motion work is delivered on schedule, on brand, and ready for client review with minimal rounds of revision.
• Clients and internal teams see your work move audiences to action and raise the creative standard across accounts.

Required

• 2+ years of commercial agency experience.
• Proficiency in After Effects
• Fast and good: high-quality output at a high pace.
• A digital-native mindset and a passion for solving design problems.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities at once.

Preferred

• Working knowledge of Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, Audition, and Premiere.
• Degree in design (BFA, BS, or BDes preferred).
• Familiarity with nonprofit / cause marketing creative.