Motion Designer (social first)

Aquent; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent Studios is seeking a Motion Designer, Social Creative to join our team supporting our international tech client. You will turn concepts and brand systems into scroll‑stopping, platform‑native motion content for social channels across multiple brands, including Snapdragon.

Under the Creative Director, Social Creative, you’ll translate briefs into engaging visuals and maintain brand consistency. You’ll collaborate with Social, Brand, and Production teams, optimize motion for short‑form

Qualifications

• 4–6+ years of motion design experience in agency, in-house, or studio environments with social focus.
• Portfolio showing craft, timing, and storytelling in short-form formats and platform-native work.

Responsibilities

• Design and animate social-first content for international tech client brands, including short-form video and looping assets.
• Adapt concepts across platforms, keeping pieces native to the channel and brand.
• Translate brand identity and motion language into engaging content.
• Build reusable motion templates and scalable systems for the Social team.

Skills

Motion design

Social content

Collaboration

Adaptability

Time management

Tools

Adobe After Effects

Premiere Pro

Illustrator

Photoshop

Job description

Aquent Studios is seeking a Motion Designer, Social Creative to join our team supporting our international tech client.

They will bring social-first creative to life in motion across our international tech client’s portfolio of brands, including Snapdragon and emerging growth businesses. Working under the Creative Director, Social Creative, this designer will turn concepts, creative briefs, and brand systems into scroll‑stopping, platform‑native motion content built for today’s creator-driven social environment. In close partnership with the Social team, they will help produce culturally relevant work that drives engagement, participation, and brand impact.

The ideal candidate combines exceptional motion craft with a strong feel for how content performs on social. They are a collaborative designer who takes direction well, moves quickly, and raises the quality of the work they touch.

What You’ll Do

• Design and animate social‑first content for our international tech client brands, including short‑form video, animated graphics, looping assets, and campaign key moments.
• Adapt concepts across platforms and formats while keeping each piece native to the channel and consistent with the brand.
• Translate brand identity, typography, color, and visual systems into motion, following and helping evolve the brand’s motion language.
• Build reusable motion templates and scalable systems that help the Social team produce content efficiently and consistently over time.
• Partner with the Creative Director, designers, copywriters, editors, and the Social, Brand, and Production teams to take work from concept to final delivery.
• Incorporate sound, music, captions, and subtitles to make content work for sound‑off viewing.
• Stay on top of platform features, creator‑driven formats, and emerging cultural trends, and bring fresh ideas to the team.
• Take feedback in stride, iterating quickly across review rounds.

Who You Are

• 4–6+ years of motion design experience in agency, in‑house, or studio environments, with a focus on social‑first or digital content.
• A portfolio that shows strong craft, timing, and storytelling in short‑form formats and platform‑native work.
• Expert proficiency in Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro, with working knowledge of Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Strong command of animation principles, typography in motion, composition, and pacing.
• Fluency in social platforms, creator content, and evolving social trends.
• Skilled at working within brand guidelines across multiple brands and business priorities while still bringing creative ideas to the table.
• Collaborative, adaptable, and energized by solving new creative challenges in a fast‑paced environment.
• Nice to have: experience with 3D tools (Cinema 4D, Blender), Figma, Lottie or template‑based motion workflows, or AI‑assisted video tools; experience with technology or consumer electronics brands.

What Success Looks Like

Our international tech client’s brands consistently deliver distinctive, polished, platform‑native motion content that audiences engage with and share.

• Motion work is delivered on time, on brand, and built to scale across formats and channels.
• Strong collaboration exists across Social, Creative, Brand, and agency teams.
• Reusable motion systems make the Social team faster and more consistent.