Senior Motion Designer

ntrs; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Senior Motion Designer to join our Creative team in Chicago. You will own concepting, designing, animating, and delivering high-impact motion for brand, campaigns, social content, and events, while shaping scalable motion systems and AI-enabled workflows.

The role requires 5–7+ years of motion design experience, a strong portfolio, and the ability to translate strategy into compelling motion experiences that are on-brand and accessible.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in film, video production, motion design, animation, or equivalent.
• 5-7+ years of motion design, animation, and video experience.
• Advanced proficiency with modern motion tools and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Create Motion Graphics, Animation & Visual Effects across brand, campaign, social, digital, executive, and event channels.
• Translate briefs into polished motion experiences with clarity, craft, and brand consistency.
• Develop reusable motion systems, templates, and assets to enable scalable production.
• Collaborate with creative, strategy, marketing, and production teams from concept through delivery.
• Ensure accessibility, governance, and brand alignment in all motion outputs.

Skills

Motion design

Animation

Video editing

Education

Bachelor's degree in film, video production, motion design, animation, graphic design, or equivalent experience

Tools

Adobe Express

Adobe Firefly

Figma

Job description

About Northern Trust

As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world's most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.

Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.

With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role/Department: Senior Motion Designer/Digital Marketing

We're looking for a Senior Motion Designer to join our Creative team-a strategic visual storyteller with deep expertise in motion graphics, animation, visual effects, and scalable motion systems. This role will concept, design, animate, and deliver high-impact motion work across brand, campaign, social, digital, executive, and event channels while helping evolve how motion is created, governed, and scaled across the enterprise.

The Senior Motion Designer transforms strategy, scripts, briefs, and design direction into polished motion experiences that bring ideas to life with clarity, craft, and brand consistency.

This role spans motion graphics, animation, visual effects, typography in motion, storyboarding, style frames, concept development, editing, sound, color, and post-production for campaign videos, social content, digital advertising, executive communications, event content, explainers, templates, and modular motion assets.

The ideal candidate can own complex motion assignments from concept through delivery, elevate the brand's motion language, build reusable systems and templates, and support scalable production models, self-service tools, and AI-enabled creative workflows.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

Create Motion Graphics, Animation & Visual Effects

• Design and animate motion graphics, typography, titles, transitions, visual effects, data visualizations, iconography, end cards, and branded motion elements.
• Bring complex ideas, messages, and brand stories to life through clear, engaging motion concepts and polished animation.
• Create cutdowns, versions, aspect ratios, and platform-specific motion adaptations while maintaining brand consistency.

Develop Storyboards, Style Frames & Motion Concepts

• Translate briefs, scripts, data points, and creative direction into storyboards, style frames, animatics, and finished motion solutions.
• Explore visual approaches that balance strategic clarity, brand expression, accessibility, and production efficiency.
• Partner with creative, strategy, marketing, and production teams to shape motion narratives from concept through final delivery.

Build Motion Systems, Templates & Reusable Assets

• Create modular motion systems, templates, toolkits, project structures, and reusable assets that enable consistent, efficient content production.
• Prepare editable motion files, production-ready templates, and exports that support repeatable use across teams, channels, and campaigns.
• Maintain organized libraries, archives, masters, version history, and source files to support ongoing reuse and governance.

Advance Motion Standards, Governance & Accessibility

• Apply enterprise visual identity, motion principles, and accessibility requirements with precision and consistency.
• Help define and evolve motion standards, governance guidance, templates, and best practices for scalable content creation.
• Ensure final work meets brand, accessibility, legal, licensing, technical, and quality requirements.

Collaborate Across Creative & Marketing Teams

• Collaborate with creative leads, producers, designers, writers, marketing partners, and stakeholders from brief through delivery.
• Present editorial and motion decisions with clear rationale and recommendations.
• Balance multiple assignments, feedback rounds, deadlines, and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Support Scalable Production & AI-Enabled Workflows

• Support scalable production models, self-service tools, and repeatable workflows that help teams create brand-aligned motion content more efficiently.
• Use tools such as Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Figma, and related creative technologies to explore concepts, accelerate production, and enable thoughtful experimentation.
• Surface production risks, rights or licensing needs, accessibility considerations, technical constraints, and efficiency opportunities early.

Skills/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in film, video production, motion design, animation, graphic design, or equivalent experience.
• 5-7+ years of motion design, animation, and video experience in an agency, in-house, studio, or production environment.
• Advanced pro