3D Artist

• 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 closely with marketing, product, and comms teams to develop and execute motion work that supports campaign strategies and business objectives.
• Concept and execute high-quality 2D and 3D motion graphics for campaigns, events, product launches, and brand activations, owning projects end-to-end from initial concept to final delivery.
• Animate 3D models and scenes with strong timing, pacing, camera work, and storytelling.
• Contribute to visual direction, layout thinking, and design exploration, ensuring motion is a driving force in how our brand shows up across digital and physical touchpoints.
• Work fluidly across Cinema 4D, Adobe Creative Suite, and Figma to bring ideas to life.
• Help evolve Whatnot’s motion language through experimentation and exploration, staying ahead of trends, emerging tools, and creative best practices to keep our motion work fresh, effective, and culturally resonant.
• Deliver polished, production-ready work under tight timelines while maintaining a high standard of craft.

Lead Motion Designer

• Produce wireframes, prototypes, and design guidelines to communicate user experience concepts with minimal oversight
• Lead the development and refinement of design principles, guidelines, and patterns to ensure consistency
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and technical constraints for effective design solutions
• Partner with user researchers and designers to address cross-application design challenges and maintain ecosystem consistency
• Contribute to high-level design strategy to align user experience efforts with organizational goals
• Provide feedback and direction to ensure design solutions are intuitive, innovative, and adhere to established principles
• Also responsible for other duties/projects as assigned by business management as needed

UI Motion Designer

• Create sophisticated IK solutions (foot placement, terrain adaptation) in Unreal Engine Control Rig and Anim Blueprints
• Rig human characters, dinosaurs, and fantasy creatures with precise attention to anatomy, understanding joint placement and muscle deformation
• Design and implement advanced procedural and gameplay-driven animation systems using Animation Blueprints (AnimBPs) in Unreal Engine 5
• Build responsive state machines, blend spaces, pose drivers, animation modifiers, notifies, and layered logic tightly coupled to gameplay and physics
• Develop physics-based animation systems including active ragdoll blending
• Leverage Houdini to procedurally modify, generate, or optimize meshes and skeletons
• Solve complex technical animation challenges while collaborating with modeling, animation, design, and engineering teams
• Perform quality checks, optimization (including LOD behavior), and seamless engine integration
• Create clear technical documentation and help evolve the animation & rigging pipeline

Technical Animator

• Lead 3D character art and coordinate work with a multidisciplinary team accountable for character-building, including but not limited to narrative and design
• Mentor and inspire a talented team of artists through all phases of production
• Foster a safe culture for growth, feedback and coaching to encourage strong creative debate
• Create strong processes and scalable art workflows that force multiply the team’s efforts and define a high art quality bar, internally and externally with partner studios
• Inspire and motivate the team with craft and process advisement
• Embrace “we” culture in addition to being an outstanding collaborator and communicator
• Develop internal and external style guides and workflows, and manage teams through creation of game assets
• Be accountable to the art director visual goals and directions

3D Character Art Lead

• Independently create and implement high quality, performant, and visually compelling VFX Assets/Tools/Systems for games- including real time particle systems, textures & texture atlases, shaders/materials, and scripting/Blueprints as needed
• Work closely with designers, engineers and related artists to design, implement, and troubleshoot VFX
• Be a self starter who meets deadlines and actively collaborates with team on VFX goals, prioritization, and scheduling
• Seek out, troubleshoot, and fix performance issues
• Maintain a meticulous, organized approach to creating, documenting, and sharing VFX for the team
• Have a great attitude and be a positive force at the studio- flexible and adaptive to the needs of the team

Senior VFX Artist

• Own the technical content stack.
• Build and ship tools.
• Drive AI-augmented workflows.
• Optimize real-time performance.
• Work across disciplines.
• Set the craft bar.
• Move quickly.
• Use AI tooling actively.

Principal Technical Artist

• Support the Marketing Communications team in the creation of video and motion graphic content
• Assist with filming, editing, and animating content for various platforms
• Complete a culminating video or motion design project
• Assist with video production activities including filming, lighting setup, and audio capture
• Support creation of motion graphics and animations and develop storyboards and animation concepts
• Edit video content for short-form videos, presentations, and digital assets
• Present internship project results and findings to the Marketing team and Kestra executive leadership

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