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Associate Motion Director
1000heads
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California, Florida, Illinois, New York
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💰 $120,000 - $160,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- We’re looking for an Associate Motion Director with a strong foundation in motion design and a keen eye for crafting clean, branded content across digital and social platforms.
- Help shape the creative direction of motion projects, balancing hands-on design skills with the ability to guide and mentor motion design talent.
- Apply motion and animation principles to social-first campaigns, short-form video, and branded content.
- Partner with creative and design leads to bring ideas to life through storyboarding, motion tests, and final execution.
- Mentor and nurture junior and mid-level motion designers, helping them grow in craft and confidence.
- Maintain a consistent design language across motion assets, keeping content polished, professional, and aligned with brand standards.
- Stay plugged into social and digital culture—adapting styles and techniques that resonate with audiences in real time.
- Occasionally contribute hands-on design and animation to set the creative bar and push the work forward.
- Build a network of motion freelancers and partners to ensure delivery during peaks
Requirements
- This is a hybrid role, with 2 days per week in office required. You must reside in one of our US office locations: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Miami
- 6+ years of professional experience in motion design or animation, ideally with a focus on social-first and branded content.
- Strong portfolio showcasing motion design, animation understanding, typography, and visual storytelling.
- Experience leveraging AI tools in the motion design practice
- Proficiency in Adobe After Effects and Adobe Creative Suite; experience with Premiere and 3D tools (Cinema 4D, Blender) a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to create clean, branded visuals that adapt to multiple digital platforms.
- Experience mentoring and providing constructive feedback to design talent.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills; comfortable working in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.
- Passion for creativity, culture, and using motion design to elevate brand storytelling.
