Lead Motion Designer
About The Position
Hinge Health is building an expressive and scalable motion language across brand, product, marketing, and digital experiences. As Lead Motion Designer, you will shape how complex ideas become clear, compelling stories that help people move beyond pain and get back to doing things they love. You will lead multi-channel, multi-platform motion initiatives from creative direction through final delivery. You will partner with creative directors, designers, writers, editors and business stakeholders to turn briefs into high-quality work that is distinctive, on-brand, audience-aware, and connected to business goals. This is an individual contributor role. You will provide craft leadership, ideation, and mentorship without direct people-management responsibility.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience in motion design, video, editing, or a related creative discipline.
- A portfolio demonstrating strong motion craft, conceptual thinking, visual storytelling, animation, and production judgment.
- Advanced understanding of motion principles, including timing, pacing, easing, eye trace, tension and release, and visual hierarchy.
- Experience leading creative work from brief through final delivery, including storyboards, style frames, animation, visual effects, and final output.
- Experience building or improving motion systems, templates, production workflows, and standards that help teams work more effectively.
- Advanced proficiency in motion design and production tools, including Figma, Final Cut Pro, Cinema 4D, Rive, or equivalent tools.
- Curiosity about AI-enabled creative tools and the judgment to use them responsibly while protecting quality, originality, accuracy, and brand integrity.
Responsibilities
- Build strong working relationships across Brand, Creative & Content, Marketing, and other key partner teams.
- Develop fluency in Hinge Health’s brand expression, assess production workflows, and creative review processes.
- Take ownership of priority motion projects and establish a clear vision, scope, timelines, and decision paths.
- Define and evolve Hinge Health’s motion principles, standards, and quality bar in partnership with creative and cross-functional leaders.
- Lead complex motion projects across brand campaigns, product videos, website, paid and organic channels, presentation decks and digital touchpoints.
- Develop multiple concepts and guide work through storyboards, style frames, animatics, visual effects, editing and final delivery.
- Present creative strategy, concepts, work-in-progress, and final recommendations to senior stakeholders, connecting creative decisions to audience and business goals.
- Build reusable templates, workflows, and self-serve tools that improve consistency, efficiency, and quality for the Video, Content and Production team.
- Become a trusted motion design expert and thought partner for complex, ambiguous initiatives across Product Marketing, Commercial, Growth, and other functions.
- Mentor motion designers and creative partners through clear feedback, coaching, and hands-on collaboration.
- Lead complex, high-visibility work across multiple channels, platforms, products, or business functions.
Benefits
- Participation in our Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), allowing you to acquire company stock via payroll at a 15% discount against the lower market price.
- Comprehensive and inclusive medical coverage and benefit programs for you and your dependents.
- Flexible retirement savings through Traditional or Roth 401(k) investment paths.
- Dedicated lifestyle stipends designed to fuel your professional growth and continuous learning.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
