Creative Lead – Motion Design

Wealthfront

full-time

Posted on: 1/30/2026

Location Type: Remote

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💰 $189,000 per year

About the role

Collaborating closely with cross-functional colleagues to create a wide range of awesome things.
Working directly with creative peers to develop narrative frameworks and visual metaphors that translate complex financial systems, data, and behaviors into clear, memorable stories across brand, product, and editorial surfaces.
Defining how our brand guidelines come to life as a system, visualizing the ins and outs of complex financial products with clarity, consistency, and just the right amount of flair.
Working with our communications and research team to turn data-driven, timely editorial content into engaging, share-able social videos.
Supporting product designers with subtle in-product implementations that produce outsized impact on our product experience, and helping uplevel interactive prototypes.

8+ years as a motion designer in an agency, studio, or in-house creative team.
Strong background in consumer driven digital marketing and product storytelling, with experience explaining complex or abstract concepts through motion across web, email, social media, Connected TV, and product surfaces.
Experience developing motion systems and principles for a brand, consistently adapting effective motion expressions across brand touchpoints.
Technical motion production skills with After Effects (or similar tools), with fluency in delivering assets and specifications for engineering and production partners.
Bonus: 3D modeling and rendering skills.
Bonus: Illustration or drawing skills.

Benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

motion designdigital marketingproduct storytellingmotion systemstechnical motion production3D modelingrenderingillustrationdrawing

Soft Skills

collaborationcreativitycommunicationstorytellingadaptability