3D Artist

• Create high-impact game trailers, teaser videos, concept trailers, launch campaigns, and social content, carrying projects from initial key frame creation through final delivery.
• Transform scripts and rough ideas into polished cinematic videos.
• Use generative-art tools to rapidly create and edit marketing assets.
• Collaborate closely with marketing, creative, product, and game teams to tell compelling stories.
• Develop motion graphics, titles, transitions, and visual effects in After Effects.
• Edit across viral-ready social formats and platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram, Discord, Steam, and app stores.
• Continuously experiment with emerging AI tools and workflows to improve speed and quality.
• Help establish scalable editing standards and production workflows and mentor newer editors as the team grows.

Senior Video Editor, AI Motion Designer

• Create innovative instructional, promotional, and original video content that enhances customer experience
• Model, Light, Texture, and Render 3D objects and animations
• Create content across the various web or mobile platforms
• Navigate ambiguity to drive the design cycle and multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Produce video graphics, graphic illustrations, motion, templates, and layouts for customer facing physical assets
• Produce a wide range of animation and motion content for help, product videos, live-action, and internal requests
• Maintain high visual standards, and a strong attention to detail, client, audience, story, and context
• Collaborate to conceptualize daily, series, and franchise visual storytelling in video, broadcast, social and other contexts
• Bring narratives to life through technical motion design projects
• Work closely with the Design Manager to ensure assets meets technical and aesthetic standards as well as align to business goals
• Make decisions that are scalable and contribute to long-term success, and take the lead in solving problems
• Own your work
• Communicate and project-manage seamlessly

Motion Designer

• Define and evolve Superhuman’s motion design language — spanning UI micro-interactions, onboarding flows, feature introductions, loading states, and brand moments across product and marketing.
• Design, prototype, and deliver high-fidelity micro-interactions and transitions that communicate state, guide attention, and make our product feel alive.
• Actively use AI-powered motion tools — including generative video, creative AI and LLM-assisted workflows as a core part of how you concept, iterate, and produce.
• Build and maintain motion guidelines, principles, and a shared library of reusable animation components that help other designers and engineers implement motion consistently.
• Partner with engineering to ensure animations are implemented accurately and performantly in production, with a clear understanding of Lottie, CSS animations, and React-based animation libraries.
• Explore speculative motion concepts that push forward what Superhuman’s product could feel like — using prototypes to communicate ideas before they’re built.
• Mentor other designers on motion craft and help build a culture where animation is thoughtfully and consistently applied.

Senior Motion Designer

• Translating design intent into 3D renders (using SketchUp, V-Ray, and/or Enscape) and technical drawings for retail fixtures, shop-in-shop setups, pop-ups, gondolas, and trade shows.
• Developing graphic strips, print-ready files, displays, and POS (Point of Sale) materials in collaboration with print vendors.
• Creating professional PowerPoint and Adobe Creative Suite presentations to showcase design intent and merchandising requirements.
• Directly supervising and physically implementing prototype graphics and fixtures on retail gondolas for design reviews and seasonal refreshes.
• Leveraging generative AI tools to facilitate rapid concept imagery.
• Conceptualizing, rendering, and adapting designs for various retail environments.
• Developing high-fidelity 3D renderings and design intent drawings.
• Creating and adapting graphic strips, headers, glorifiers, point-of-sale (POS) displays, and technical print layouts.
• Building precise, production-ready pre-press files for vendor submission.
• Physically setting up, testing, and auditing prototype graphics and fixtures on retail gondolas.

2D/3D Retail Designer

• Lead the VFX team: maintain consistency across the department providing direction and feedback, ensuring all team members understand their role in the department and know what is expected of them
• Lead team meetings and relay important studio information when required
• Work closely with department manager to provide mentorship and coaching for VFX team members including but not limited to: 1:1s, career development, performance evaluations, and goal setting
• Guide the creative process; drive the concept process for game effects
• Bring in-progress and prototype effects to completion
• Work with the Art Directors and art teams to ensure artistic unity across the game
• Create real-time visual effects to enhance environments, characters, and combat
• Work with designers, engineers, and other artists in creating strong moment-to-moment gameplay
• Collaborate with other team members to ensure that assets fall within set parameters in regards to performance, best practices, and art style
• Playtest with both the studio and the VFX team to review and iterate VFX

Lead VFX Artist

• Define and lead motion design execution across Digital Creative Services
• Develop motion systems, animation approaches, and visual experiences that elevate artist brands, campaigns, and digital products
• Partnering closely with Creative Directors, Designers, Content Production teams, Developers, and Client stakeholders
• Translate creative vision into compelling motion-led experiences while establishing standards, workflows, and best practices
• Create high-quality motion graphics, animations, and visual content across multiple channels and platforms
• Develop content for artist campaigns, ecommerce experiences, social content, product launches, and branded storytelling initiatives

Lead Motion Designer

• Lead and create visually compelling graphic design assets for digital and print media, including advertisements, banners, email templates, social media posts, and more
• Design and produce high-quality 3D renders for product visualizations, marketing materials, and e-commerce marketplaces
• Collaborate with the marketing and product teams to create cohesive visual narratives for campaigns, websites, and product launches
• Use your motion graphics skills to enhance projects, such as web banners, social media ads, and short animations (motion graphics experience is a plus but not the primary focus)
• Maintain consistent visual design standards that reflect the Sunco brand identity across all touchpoints
• Provide creative direction and design leadership within the team, offering feedback and mentoring to junior designers and team members
• Ensure that design work is delivered on time and meets the highest quality standards
• Stay up to date with current design trends, tools, and techniques to continually bring fresh ideas to the table
• Other tasks as assigned

3D Designer, 3D Visualizer, 3D Interior Designer, 3D Rendering Artist, Industrial Designer

• Creating high-quality in-game cinematics that meet the visual and performance standards
• Driving the cinematic process from script interpretation and scene layout through final implementation in the game engine

Senior Cinematic Animator

• Conceptualize, design, and execute high-quality motion graphics, animation, UI motion, video content, and digital experiences across campaigns and content initiatives.
• Develop storyboards, style frames, motion studies, and visual explorations that help communicate and refine creative concepts.
• Partner closely with Creative Directors, Art Directors, Copywriters, Visual Designers, and Generative AI Artists to create integrated audience experiences across channels and platforms.
• Collaborate on music selection, sound design, and audio direction to enhance storytelling, reinforce brand expression, and elevate the overall quality of motion experiences.
• Ensure all motion work maintains a high standard of craft, storytelling, technical execution, and brand consistency.
• Contribute to pre-production planning, production, and post-production efforts to help ensure creative intent is maintained through final delivery.
• Explore AI-assisted motion workflows, automation, and emerging creative technologies that improve efficiency and unlock new creative possibilities.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining exceptional attention to detail, organization, and quality.
• Participate in creative reviews, brainstorms, and cultural trend exploration, bringing fresh inspiration and motion-first thinking to the team.
• Stay current on motion design, animation, filmmaking, sound design, AI, and emerging technologies to continually push the work forward.

• Collaborate with the design team to create storyboards in a wide variety of styles
• Contribute to the concept and execution of motion graphics bringing branding, environmental, and package designs to life in impactful ways
• Effectively plan executional approaches to each project
• Execute quickly and effectively
• Efficiently manage challenges and solve design problems through proactive problem solving
• Manage time and consistently meet deadlines
• Consistently drive excellence in design across all projects

Motion Graphics, 3D Visualization Designer

• Produce explainer videos to support HR and Total Rewards programs (e.g., benefits updates, program launches)
• Create animated content for campaigns such as open enrollment, wellbeing initiatives, and employee programs
• Develop short-form, “snackable” video content designed for employee and manager consumption
• Support leadership storytelling through internal videos, clips, and executive communications
• Partner closely with communications leads to translate messaging into effective motion and video content
• Contribute to creative concepting and storytelling approaches that enhance engagement and clarity

Multimedia, Motion Designer

• Collaborate with game designers, artists, and engineers to translate visual concepts into optimized, in-engine assets.
• Import, configure, and maintain 2D/3D assets, materials, and shaders within Unity3D for mobile and WebGL builds.
• Profile and optimize assets, textures, lighting, and rendering pipelines to maintain high frame rates and minimal memory footprint.
• Build and maintain Unity editor tools, import scripts, or asset validation pipelines to streamline workflows.
• Create and optimize shaders, particle systems, and post-processing effects to enhance visual fidelity.
• Ensure asset compatibility and consistent visual quality across iOS, Android, and WebGL platforms.

Senior Technical Artist

• Be the force behind how clients' brands move, feel, and interact
• Bridge the gap between creative vision and business impact
• Conceptualize and execute 2D animation, UI motion, and motion graphics
• Leverage technical skills to produce engaging content across platforms

Principal – Motion Design

• Own the motion design language for Harvey’s brand across launch videos, product explainers, web and campaign moments, event assets, social cuts, sales enablement, and other high-leverage creative surfaces.
• Create motion concepts, storyboards, styleframes, animatics, and final motion assets that make complex AI workflows feel clear, premium, and unmistakably Harvey.
• Partner closely with Brand, Product Marketing, Product Design, Creative Operations, and other GTM stakeholders to translate positioning, product context, and user needs into motion narratives that can ship quickly.
• Develop reusable motion systems, templates, animation principles, and production workflows so Harvey can scale motion output without reinventing the wheel on every request.
• Use judgment to scope work appropriately across polished hero moments, scrappy launch needs, quick-turnaround edits, and longer-term brand-system investments.
• Raise the craft bar for motion while remaining willing to do the unglamorous but important production work required in a fast-moving creative team.

Staff Motion Designer

• Creates, designs, and implements real-time particle effects using both static and animating 2D/3D elements
• Placing of visual FX across all areas of the game, including environmental and gameplay FX, and cinematics
• Create FX textures (color, normal, specular, ambient occlusion, height, and incandescent maps)
• Possesses at least an intermediate ability to navigate and use DCC software such as Maya, Houdini, or equivalent
• Creates FX shaders with node-based shader networks
• Creates simple geometry and UV sets
• Possesses an intermediate foundation in computer graphics fundamentals and artistic analysis
• Optimizes FX for framerate and memory
• Collaborates with other development departments to ensure that FX are implemented appropriately in the game engine
• Understands and adds to the overall art style of game
• Orchestrates FX events involving layering and timing of different FX to create a believable scene
• Work with external partners, including the creation of outsourcing briefs, best practice documentation, and packages to send to external art vendors
• Demonstrated professionalism in attendance, communication, reading comprehension, receiving feedback and working in a production setting
• Other duties may be assigned

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