Remote Motion Systems Director

DEPT®; United States; Remote; USD 123,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare, Dental, and Vision

401k plan, plus matching

PTO

Paid Company Holidays

Parental Leave

Job summary

DEPT® seeks an Associate Motion Technical Director to guide the OpenAI motion pipeline's technical evolution while staying hands-on as a motion practitioner. You will mentor Motion Designers, shape workflows, and deliver robust production systems across concept to archive.

You will partner with Creative Directors, designers, managers, and clients to translate creative goals into durable tools, templates, and automation that reduce repetitive work while expanding creative possibilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in motion design, technical direction, creative technology, animation production, or a related role.
• Strong motion portfolio showing systems you built for others to reuse.
• Deep expertise in After Effects: expressions, architecture, rendering, troubleshooting, templates.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the technical roadmap for the OpenAI motion pipeline, prioritizing scalable improvements.
• Build, test, document, and maintain scripts, plugins, and tools for motion production and delivery.
• Develop reusable motion components, UI modules, and shared libraries for cross-team reuse.
• Design localization-ready workflows with responsive layouts and automated handoffs.
• Establish file architecture standards, naming, and long-term maintainability.
• Improve connections between Figma, After Effects, and delivery systems for traceability.
• Remain hands-on in production by solving complex builds and prototyping approaches.
• Directly manage and develop Motion Designers, fostering growth and performance.
• Coach teams on efficient build practices, automation, and quality control.
• Collaborate with leadership during scoping to identify dependencies and risks.
• Evaluate new technologies for adoption with reliability and value.
• Create onboarding docs and run workshops to share knowledge.
• Track recurring production friction and maintain a pipeline improvements backlog.

Skills

Motion design

Technical direction

Mentoring

Debugging

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

After Effects

Premiere

Figma

Python

ExtendScript

Job description

DEPT® seeks an Associate Motion Technical Director to guide the OpenAI motion pipeline's technical evolution while staying hands-on as a motion practitioner. You will mentor Motion Designers, shape workflows, and deliver robust production systems across concept to archive.

You will partner with Creative Directors, designers, managers, and clients to translate creative goals into durable tools, templates, and automation that reduce repetitive work while expanding creative possibilities.