Motion Designer, Brand

Notion • San Francisco, CA

1d • $165,000 - $185,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This role sits within the Creative Studio, a small team of designers, illustrators, copywriters, and filmmakers serving creative needs across the company. As our Brand Motion Designer, you'll lead motion-led projects from concept through storyboarding to final production, and build the motion systems that make animation a consistent part of how our brand shows up. We're looking for someone who approaches motion as a communication tool and can take complex concepts and make them clear, concise, and memorable.

Requirements

• 6+ years of motion design experience in an agency or in-house creative team, with a portfolio that shows range across brand, product, and narrative work.
• Deep fluency in After Effects and Figma.
• You've worked on UI and character animation, not just video.
• Strong pre-production craft: concepting, scripting, and storyboarding ideas into clear motion beats.
• Clear, proactive communication. You can present work to non-designers and bring people along with your creative rationale.
• Genuine curiosity about where the tools are going. You're exploring Rive, Jitter, Cavalry, or generative AI in order to expand what's possible. You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results.

Nice To Haves

• You have live action or illustration skills.
• You’ve built tools, templates, or workflows that enable non-motion-designers to work with animation confidently.

Responsibilities

• Lead motion work from concept through production — brand campaigns, product launches, social content, event visuals, and explainer films.
• Collaborate with our video team, designers, and cross-functional partners to develop video and film projects that advance the brand.
• Build and extend motion design systems: principles, behaviors, and templates that others can use and build on.
• Translate dense concepts into short, clear stories that a broad audience can understand and remember.
• Raise the bar for motion across the company. Review work, mentor teammates, and bring a strong point of view about how animation serves communication.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed