Senior Motion Designer & Video Editor — Brand & SaaS Motion

Backlight; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Backlight is seeking a Sr. Motion Designer/Video Editor to bring our brand and products to life on screen. You’ll animate designs, build motion graphics, and edit footage into videos from start to finish, owning projects end-to-end.

You’ll collaborate with marketing, design, and product teams to ensure brand consistency and produce content for UI, explainers, social assets, and ads. Proficiency in After Effects and Premiere Pro is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio showing both motion graphics and video editing.
• Expertise in After Effects and Premiere Pro.
• Ability to animate existing designs and create original motion graphics.
• Strong editorial instincts for storytelling, pacing, and viewer engagement.
• Solid understanding of typography, composition, color, and sound.
• Project-owner mindset, comfortable managing video from kickoff to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Animate existing designs into polished motion graphics for product UI, explainers, social assets, and ads.
• Create original motion graphics from scratch.
• Edit raw footage (interviews, screen recordings, events, stock clips) into compelling videos of various lengths and formats.
• Manage full post-production: story, pacing, sound, music, color, captions, and graphics.
• Adapt videos for different channels and aspect ratios, managing projects from briefs to final delivery.
• Strategize new approaches to video and creative concepts to build the brand, reach new audiences, and convert prospects.
• Partner with marketing, design, and product teams to ensure accuracy and brand consistency.
• Maintain a unified visual language across all our video content.

Skills

Motion graphics

Video editing

Storytelling

Typography

Color theory

Sound design

Tools

After Effects

Premiere Pro

Cinema 4D

Lottie

Figma

Job description

Backlight is seeking a Sr. Motion Designer/Video Editor to bring our brand and products to life on screen. You’ll animate designs, build motion graphics, and edit footage into videos from start to finish, owning projects end-to-end.

You’ll collaborate with marketing, design, and product teams to ensure brand consistency and produce content for UI, explainers, social assets, and ads. Proficiency in After Effects and Premiere Pro is essential.