Motion Design Technologist

StackAdapt

7h•Remote

About The Position

StackAdapt is a leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision using its AI-powered Marketing Platform. As an engineer at StackAdapt, you will build production-level software that directly impacts the advertising platform, working with modern stacks across Go, Ruby on Rails, React, and GraphQL. The engineering organization is collaborative, cross-functional, and offers clear growth paths. This role is part of the Creatives Platform group, an engineering team responsible for systems and tooling that power self-serve creative creation and the in-house creative template library. The position is for a design-led technologist who will be a dedicated creative template partner embedded with engineering. The focus is to collect feedback and design new creative templates across channels, especially motion-heavy formats like Video/DCO, and to bridge engineering, product, and client-facing teams by identifying creative library gaps and translating them into scalable platform capabilities. This role is intentionally design and motion-forward, requiring enough technical comfort to produce and iterate on templates directly.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a motion/visual designer (or equivalent portfolio-based experience).
A portfolio showing strong digital advertising craft across display / social / web (motion work required; interactive is a plus).
Intermediate+ motion/animation skills and strong visual design fundamentals (composition, typography, pacing, brand sensibility).
Practical experience with HTML5 + CSS, including debugging/troubleshooting interactive creatives.
Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, especially After Effects; familiarity with Google Web Designer / Animate is a plus.
Strong collaboration skills: you can translate ambiguous needs into clear template requirements and work effectively with engineers.

Nice To Haves

Experience optimizing creative assets for mobile/video environments; familiarity with DOOH and/or native formats.
Experience with DCO / feed-driven creative or template frameworks.
Basic video/audio editing experience.
Hands-on experience applying AI tools (or a strong interest in doing so) to improve creative production workflows.
Familiarity with Figma, component libraries, or design systems for reusable creative building blocks.

Responsibilities

Design and produce programmatic templates using client assets and/or original concepts, spanning static, animated, and interactive formats.
Create motion-forward template systems (animation patterns, transitions, reusable motion components) using tools like After Effects / Animate / Google Web Designer (or similar).
Build and maintain interactive HTML5 templates that work across devices and platforms; troubleshoot layout/behavior issues using HTML5/CSS (and light JavaScript when needed).
Partner with Engineering / Creative Studio / Product to understand what customers struggle to create, then translate insights into: New template concepts and reusable patterns for our in-house creative library Platform/library capability gaps for engineer and designer to build together (e.g., missing building blocks, controls, animation features, workflows).
Develop ads creative best practices across channels and industries, and work with the team to apply vertical-specific creative strategies and patterns to inform template design.
Participate in select customer/CS discussions to validate requirements and ensure templates solve real problems.
Own quality checks (visual polish, specs compliance, responsiveness, accessibility considerations where applicable, and functional testing).
Improve template workflows through standards (naming, structure, components), documentation, and experimentation with better tooling—including AI-assisted workflows where helpful.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary
Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
Health benefits from day one of employment
Work from home reimbursements
Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
Robust training and onboarding program
Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
An awesome parental leave program
A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
Our social and team events!