We are looking for an experienced senior motion designer to join the team with a background in motion, creative direction, branding and design systems, and social. You must be comfortable working in collaboration with various disciplines across many media. You are seen as a strong contributor to the team who’s able to lead meetings, present ideas and concepts in a clear and compelling way. When you decide to make something, you see your vision from concept to launch without any hand-holding. You should have unwavering dedication to design excellence.
The GCD Social design team is part of the Creative X team and is responsible for developing creative social posts that engage with the B2B audiences. We thrive to create social experiences to facilitate the delivery of information, and translate complex messaging into visual communications that users can easily read and understand. This team develops social creative, using motion design and kinetic typography, across multiple platforms. It's a multi-disciplinary team made up of design lead and motion designers to craft high quality experiences. The team collaborates with a broad set of marketing teams across the org.
Designer Responsibilities
• Deliver conceptually rich, culturally relevant creative concepts, and contribute strategic thinking to guide projects beyond a given direction
• Think with a social-first mindset; animate videos that are on-brand, engaging and dynamic
• Help influence the overall creative strategy and shape the work for creative and marketing goals
• Proactively look for creative opportunities that help solve business objectives, and improve on existing style and approach
• Clearly articulating design decisions to a cross-functional partners & stakeholders and defending creative choices with performance and data-driven insights
• Simultaneously working on multiple projects and meeting deadlines while maintaining quality control and a high caliber of creative output
• Seamlessly collaborating with creatives, marketers, copywriters to serve a global audience.
Minimum Qualifications
• Communication skills, experience responding to briefs creatively, present ideas and concepts to stakeholders, collaborate and iterate based on feedback from cross-functional partners
• Strong typography and kinetic typography skills
• Storyboarding & motion/animation are a must (social-first, Reels style)
• Hands-on design expertise, and experience shaping and leading creative direction in a fast-paced, iterative and independent environment
• 5+ years of experience in communication design, graphic design, motion design, within design studios, creative agencies, and/or in-house teams
• Expert with Adobe CC suite of products including (but not limited to) After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, and Illustrator
• Experience in Figma
• Highly motivated self-starter able to keep project timelines on track and share incremental progress
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners
• A portfolio of work that contains examples of Art Direction, Motion Design, Typography, Illustration, and digital/social campaigns across platforms.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience as a senior motion designer at a creative agency or an in-house team
• Expert motion design skill set using programs such as After Effects
Education
• BA in Design (Animation, Communication, Graphic or other)
This is the pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position $64.40/hour - $74.93/hour
Optional Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K
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