Motion Designer BR (freelance)

Monks; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Monks is seeking a seasoned motion graphics designer to edit and animate campaign and social content for a top-name brand. You’ll design titles, end cards, and platform-specific graphics while collaborating with art directors.

The role requires 4+ years agency experience, expert Adobe suite skills, and the ability to work within strict brand guidelines. You’ll contribute to a fast-paced, collaborative team and help deliver high-quality visuals on tight timelines.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4+ years in an advertising agency.
• Ability to work with designers, editors, and art directors.
• Strong sense of typography, layout and design.
• Familiar with brand guidelines and asset adaptation.
• Proactive, organized, and able to manage multiple projects.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Edit and animate campaign and social content for a top-name brand.
• Design and animate titles, end cards, and graphics for various platforms.
• Create social media posts, original content and asset adaptation.
• Collaborate with art directors to craft creative solutions.
• Coordinate with creative team to understand project scope.
• Stay updated on latest design and animation techniques.
• Prepare logos and artwork, with retouching and color grading as needed.
• Light video editing and export delivered files to spec.
• Adhere to guidelines, deadlines, and design standards.
• Maintain efficient workflows and seek process improvements.
• Handle multiple concurrent projects independently and collaboratively.

Skills

Agency advertising experience

Team collaboration

Creative ideation

Self-motivated

Tools

After Effects

Adobe Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Premiere Pro

Job description

Please note that we will never request payment or bank account information at any stage of the recruitment process. As we continue to grow our teams, we urge you to be cautious of fraudulent job postings or recruitment activities that misuse our company name and information. Please protect your personal information during any recruitment process. While Monks may contact potential candidates via LinkedIn, all applications must be submitted through our official website monks.com/careers.

Role & Responsibilities

• Working as part of a dedicated client team, you’ll edit and animate campaign and social content for a top-name (and top-secret) brand.
• Design and animate titles, end cards and accompanying graphics for different platforms
• Design and animate social media posts, generating original content from scratch as well as adapting or incorporating provided assets
• Work closely with art directors to concept creative solutions for clients
• Work with the creative team and production to understand project scope and objectives.
• Keeping up to date with latest design/animation techniques
• Adaptation of campaign assets - logo and artwork preparation, retouching, color grading etc.
• Light editing
• Export and deliver appropriate files to the specification given.
• Compliance with guidelines, deadlines and design standards.
• Adhere to internal workflow and process
• Ability to find workflow efficiencies and optimization across the pipelines is a plus.

Requirements

• Must have at least 4+ years of agency advertising experience
• Must be a bright, articulate, self-starter who can take initiative and bring new ideas to the table.
• Must be able to work closely with a team of graphic designers, editors, and art-directors.
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Suite ( After Effects , Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere) is a MUST.
• Typography, Layout and Design skills
• Experience working within strict brand guidelines, as well as adapting campaign look & feel
• Passionate about design, and a student of social trends
• Possess a willingness to explore multiple options and adapt to stakeholder feedback
• Professional, efficient, organized, detail-oriented, have excellent follow-through, and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Have the ability to work independently and collaboratively and to successfully manage concurrent and competing projects
• You will be expected to adhere to a high level of confidentiality
• Must be aware of pop culture, new series, movies, and social media conversations.

At Monks, you’ll be joining a highly ambitious company on a global mission to become the best production partner in any field and market. With offices all around the globe and 4,000+ Monks and counting, we’re leading the industry through integrated teams who create great, relevant work with purpose at scale and at speed.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. We want everyone to feel free, real, safe and be respectful of others.

About Monks

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions’ Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato’s AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.