Senior Creative Motion Designer (Short Term)

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 184,820 - 230,660; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Benefits package

Job summary

Roblox in San Mateo, CA is seeking a Senior Creative Motion Designer to craft engaging video content and provide marketing support for key areas including Business and Growth Marketing.

You will build cinematic trailers, collaborate with writers and designers, source music, and ensure brand consistency across surfaces. The role blends editing, storytelling, and technical design with equity and benefits for full-time employees.

Qualifications

• 5+ years editing for commercial/corporate content.
• Outstanding reel showcasing editing craft.
• Experience in motion design and motion graphics.
• Proficient with NLE software and Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Strong cinematic editorial composition and audio editing ability.
• Ability to work iteratively and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Enhance Roblox brand by creating compelling video materials across products and features.
• Contribute to brand definitions on marketing surfaces.
• Build cinematic trailers, short-form videos, and sales/presentation videos.
• Collaborate with copywriters and designers to maintain cohesive brand.
• Create and refine video content with cross-functional partners.
• Incorporate feedback from leads and partners.
• Source music and sound design.
• Export final deliverables per platform formats.
• Champion creative and technical development within the team.

Skills

Motion design

Editing for brands

Brand storytelling

Collaboration

Deadline-driven

Tools

Adobe Premiere

Final Cut Pro

After Effects

Photoshop

Illustrator

Media Encoder

Job description

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

As a Senior Creative Motion Designer at Roblox, you will create engaging video content and provide marketing support for key areas of the business, including Business Marketing, Growth Marketing (App Stores) foundational brand building and more. This hands‑on role is pivotal in delivering crafted brand narratives at scale. You’re an editing, content‑creating, story‑telling, asset‑evaluating, problem‑solver. You are a strong collaborator who is organized and works efficiently towards deadlines. You’ve got a technical eye, understand the tools you have to create content with and you’re unafraid to take creative risks. Your unwavering attention to detail, collaborative mentality, project management skills, and passion for design and technology will be integral as we embark on our mission to bring millions of people together through shared experiences.

You Will:

• Enhance the overall Roblox brand by creating compelling, nimbly crafted video materials about our brand, products and features
• Contribute to how Roblox is defined and understood across all marketing surfaces
• Build cinematic style trailers, short form videos, and presentation and sales enablement videos. These will show up on a wide range of surfaces including app stores, web, social, conferences
• Work with copywriters and designers to define ideas, and maintain a cohesive brand across all surfaces and channels
• Collaborate with cross‑functional partners to create, refine and craft video content that tells easily understood narratives
• Implement feedback from creative leads and cross‑functional partners
• Source music and sound design
• Follow standard methodologies for exporting final deliverables in accordance with the formats of various media platforms.
• Champion creative and technical development among team members

You Have:

• At least 5 + years of professional experience editing for commercial and corporate content.
• An outstanding reel that showcases crafted editing.
• Experience in motion design, and motion graphics
• Experienced knowledge in NLE software (Adobe Premiere, Final Cut, etc.). Proficient in After Effects and the ability to execute on motion graphic templates as well as other Adobe Creative Cloud applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, Media Encoder). Technical knowledge of video codecs and design principles.
• Strong visual style with a keen focus on cinematic editorial composition. Professional experience in music theory and audio editing capabilities.
• A thoughtful and resilient mindset. You understand that the editing process is iterative and have the ability to operate nimbly.

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job‑related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full‑time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Annual Salary Range

$184,820 — $230,660 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H‑1B sponsorship at this time.