Senior Motion Designer

dub • New York, NY

6h • $100,000 - $150,000 • Onsite

About The Position

dub is looking for a Senior Motion Designer, Performance Creative to join their Marketing team. This role is embedded within the performance marketing function, collaborating with growth marketers to translate hypotheses into creative assets, analyze their performance, and inform future creative development. The position combines motion design, product storytelling, performance creative, and experimentation, focusing on animating product features and developing new visual concepts. The ultimate goal is to systematically discover and leverage insights about effective ideas, messages, hooks, visual systems, and product stories that drive growth. Success in this role is measured by the impact of the creative produced, not the volume of assets shipped. The role also requires operating within a rigorous compliance framework for financial advertising, treating these requirements as creative constraints.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in motion design, performance creative, advertising, or a related discipline.
• Portfolio demonstrating exceptional motion craft and work designed for paid digital channels.
• Portfolio that shows objective behind the work, what was tested, what happened, and what was learned.
• Deep expertise in After Effects.
• Strong proficiency in tools such as Cinema 4D, Blender, or equivalent 3D/motion software.
• Strong experience with product and UI animation, including workflows between Figma and motion tools.
• Demonstrated understanding of performance creative for Meta, TikTok, and YouTube, including hooks, pacing, aspect ratios, platform-native conventions, and how creative affects media performance.
• Strong visual and conceptual judgment; ability to independently turn an insight or rough hypothesis into a compelling creative idea.
• Comfortable working with creative performance data (CTR, thumb-stop/hook rate, conversion rate, CPA, ROAS).
• Experience with structured creative testing and distinguishing between testing a hypothesis and producing variations.
• Strong instinct for iteration; ability to identify what is working and evolve it.
• High ownership and comfort with ambiguity; proactive about identifying opportunities and moving work forward.
• Ability to balance speed and craft.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and ability to work closely with performance marketers, content creators, data partners, product teams, and compliance.
• Must be authorized to work in the US (no visa sponsorship provided).

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing for fintech, financial services, health, insurance, or another regulated category.
• Experience marketing a consumer mobile app or subscription product.
• Experience developing ads using real product experiences, dynamic interfaces, or data-driven visualizations.
• Experience building or helping build a performance creative program from the ground up.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled creative workflows and an interest in using emerging tools to increase concepting and iteration speed.

Responsibilities

• Design and animate performance creative across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and other emerging paid channels, with a particular focus on motion graphics, product visualization, UI animation, and short-form video.
• Turn growth hypotheses into creative concepts, partnering with performance marketers to translate audience, messaging, funnel, and behavioral insights into differentiated ideas worth testing.
• Own the creative experimentation cycle end to end: hypothesis → concept → build → launch → analysis → iteration.
• Design tests that teach us something, structuring creative variations intentionally to understand why something won or lost.
• Make the product a central character in advertising by animating real dub interfaces, portfolios, interactions, and product behaviors.
• Develop high-impact hooks and visual storytelling systems that communicate complex financial concepts within the first few seconds of an ad.
• Read performance data and turn it into creative direction, developing a point of view on performance and identifying patterns across creative.
• Build creative franchises, not just one-off ads, by identifying underlying mechanisms of successful ideas and developing new expressions, narratives, hooks, and formats.
• Maintain a strong creative testing pipeline alongside the performance team, including a prioritized backlog of hypotheses, concepts, iterations, and new bets.
• Build a scalable motion system of templates, components, UI treatments, transitions, and reusable animation logic.
• Design for the channel, understanding how creative behavior differs across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and new placements.
• Operate effectively within compliance requirements, including disclosures, disclaimers, performance claims, and other requirements specific to investment marketing.
• Raise the creative bar for performance marketing at dub by bringing in new references, formats, technologies, workflows, and ideas.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ranging from $100k-$150k, commensurate with experience and geography to include equity
• 100% paid health insurance for employees with partial coverage for dependents
• Time away, including company holidays and unlimited PTO
• Daily free dinner after 6:30 & Thursday team catered lunches
• Lively office environment in SoHo with 24/7 office access, fully stocked snacks, coffee, espresso, and other perks

What This Job Offers

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