Video & Motion Designer

Lever, Inc.; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K retirement savings plan

Paid vacation

Maternity/Paternity Pay

Job summary

Lessen is a tech-enabled property services company seeking a Video & Motion Designer to join the Brand team in Marketing. The role spans concepting to delivery of brand films, product demos, and social videos, with a focus on motion graphics and UI storytelling.

You’ll work directly in Figma to extract assets, adapt product screens for animation, and create polished motion content across diverse formats, collaborating with multiple teams to translate business goals into compelling visuals.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience in video editing, motion design, or related creative discipline.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating motion graphics, editing, and visual storytelling.
• B2B technology, SaaS, or enterprise tech experience.
• Solid understanding of animation principles, pacing, typography, and composition.

Responsibilities

• Concept, design, edit, and produce video content across the brand including brand storytelling, campaigns, product demos, and social content.
• Create motion graphics, kinetic typography, and animated data visualizations.
• Work with product UI in Figma to adapt screens for animation and storytelling.
• Develop scripts, storyboards, and treatments; translate complex tech into clear visuals.
• Collaborate with Brand, Product Marketing, and other teams to meet business goals.

Skills

Motion design

Video editing

Storyboarding

Animation

UI animation

Collaboration

Brand storytelling

AI video tooling

Tools

Adobe After Effects

Premiere Pro

Photoshop

Illustrator

Figma

Runway / AI video tools

Job description

Lessen is the tech-enabled, end-to-end property service provider that is transforming how commercial and residential real estate services are delivered and managed at scale. Lessen’s technology platform provides data-driven insights that unlock key growth opportunities for the entire real estate ecosystem—including investors, owners, managers, and service providers. The company leverages a network of over 30,000 vetted, qualified vendors (Lessen Affiliates) serving clients with over 1 million properties and completing more than 3.5 million work orders annually across an expanding range of services. Lessen, LLC is a venture-backed, privately held company with offices in Scottsdale and Chicago.

Lessen is looking for a Video & Motion Designer to join our Brand team within Marketing.

This is a hands-on creative role for someone who can take a story from idea to finished piece—concepting, scripting, storyboarding, editing, animating, and delivering polished video content across a wide range of formats.

You’llcreate everything from brand films and campaign creative to product demos, customer stories, social video, promotional content, commercials, event content, and product launches. Some projects will be heavily driven by motion graphics and kinetic typography. Others will combine product UI, live action, photography, stock footage, interviews, and AI-generated video.

Because Lessen is not just a property maintenance company, but also a technology company, a major part of the role will also be making software feel clear, compelling, and visually engaging. You should be comfortable working directly in Figma, extracting and adapting product assets, rebuilding screens when necessary, and turning static interfaces into polished motion and product storytelling.

This is not a role whereyou’llsimply receive a finished script and a folder of perfectly prepared assets.We’relooking for someone who is curious, resourceful, visually strong, and comfortable helping shape the story.

What You'll Do:

• Concept, design, edit, and produce video content across the Lessen brand, including:
• Brand and corporate storytelling
• Integrated marketing campaigns
• Product launches and promotional videos
• Product demos and feature walkthroughs
• Social and paid media content
• Customer testimonials and case studies
• Event and sales content
• Commercial and digital advertising
• Internal and executive communications
• Create sophisticated motion graphics, kinetic typography, animated data visualizations, transitions, and branded visual systems that make complex ideas feel simple and engaging.
• Turn product experiences into compelling video by working directly with Figma files and product UI, adapting screens and assets for storytelling rather than relying solely on screenrecordings.
• Animate product interfaces, workflows, dashboards, mobile experiences, and feature interactions in a way that feels polished, intentional, and easy to understand.
• Partner with Brand, Product Marketing, Demand Generation, Social, Product Design, and other teams to translate business goals into strong creative concepts.
• Help develop scripts, storyboards, treatments, visual concepts, and narrative structures rather than operating solely as an execution resource.
• Translate complex SaaS, AI, and property-operations concepts into concise, visually compelling stories for audiences who may not be deeply technical.
• Use generative AI video tools as part of the production workflow, including creating and refining prompts, generating scenes and visual assets, iterating toward usable outputs, and combining AI-generated content with traditional editing and motion design.
• Identify when AI-generated footage, stock footage, live action, product UI, animation, or a hybrid approach will produce the strongest result.
• Edit interviews, customer stories, event footage, and other live-action content into polished narratives.
• Create multiple cuts and adaptations of content for LinkedIn, paid social, websites, sales presentations, events, and other channels.
• Source and work with music, stock footage, photography, voiceover, sound effects, and other production assets as needed.
• Maintain strong visual and motion consistency with Lessen’s evolving brand system.
• Develop reusable motion templates, animation systems, transitions, and production workflows that allow the marketing team to create video more efficiently and consistently.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and communicate clearly about timelines, priorities, dependencies, and production needs.
• Stay current on emerging video, motion, AI, design, and B2B technology trends and proactively bring new creative approaches to the team.

What You'll Need:

• 4+ years of professional experiencein video editing, motion design, video production, multimedia design, ora relatedcreative discipline.
• A strong portfolio or reeldemonstratingsophisticatedmotion graphics, editing, visual storytelling, and digital video work.
• B2B technology, SaaS, or enterprise technology experiencerequired.
• Strongmotion-designcapabilities and a solid understanding of animation principles, pacing, transitions, typography, hierarchy, and composition.
• AdvancedproficiencyinAdobe After Effects and Premiere Pro.
• Strong working knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator.
• ProficiencywithFigma, including the ability to independently navigate product design files, pull assets,modifyUI elements, prepare screens for animation, and recreate or adapt interface elements when needed.
• Demonstrated experience creatingsoftware/product animations, product demos, or UI-driven videos.
• Hands‑on experience using generative AI for video productionrequired.You should be comfortable experimenting, prompting, iterating, troubleshooting outputs, and incorporating AI‑generated assets into professional creative work.
• Experience with current generative video and creative AI platforms such as Runway, Kling, Veo, Sora, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, or comparable tools.
• Strong visual storytelling instincts and the ability todeterminewhat should be shown, animated, simplified, or removed to make a story land.
• Ability to work from a loose brief and develop a creative approach—not simply execute a predetermined edit.
• Strong script, storyboard, andconcept-developmentskills.
• Ability to understand complex technology and translate it into content that feels accessible, modern, and human.
• Excellent attention to detail, particularly around UI accuracy, timing, typography, brand consistency, and production quality.
• Strongproject-managementand communication skills with the ability to work independently in a fast-moving marketing organization.
• Comfortable receiving feedback, iterating quickly, and collaborating with creative and non-creative stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Experience filming and directing interviews, testimonials, events, or lightweight live-action productions.
• Experience with cameras, lighting, audio, and basic on-location production.
• Experience working with product marketing teams on software launches and feature storytelling.
• Familiarity with 3D, compositing, or tools such as Cinema 4D or Blender.
• Experience creating reusablemotion-designsystems or branded video toolkits.
• Familiarity with property technology, field service management, facilities management, real estate technology, or related industries.

$85,000 - $105,000 a year

Why Lessen:

• Competitive compensation
• Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability options
• 401K retirement savings plan
• Paid vacation, federal and floating holidays
• Maternity/Paternity Pay
• Career advancement opportunities
• All the tools you'll need to be successful

Lessen is intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. We’re looking for teammates that are enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and will help us amplify the positive & inclusive culture we’ve been building. Lessen is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.