Staff Motion Designer

BILL•San Jose, CA

12h•Remote

About The Position

Reporting to the Creative Director, a Staff Motion Designer at BILL is responsible for bringing the brand to life by leading the development, usage, and evolution of the motion discipline at BILL. Driving foundational work streams such as brand standards, motion style guides, and templates for the brand, and leading/delivering high-bar motion work for marketing assets across digital experiences, hype videos, educational content, campaigns, email marketing, events, and more. A Staff Motion Designer contributes to, interprets, and delivers upon strategic creative briefs for complex and large projects; seeks and shares necessary information from stakeholders and partner teams; determines the best design approaches for achieving results, and coordinates contributions from other design team members. Additionally, Staff Motion Designers proactively analyze work methods and business constraints, and propose and drive programs and processes which reduce operational redundancies and drive the Marketing organization’s strategic goals. They actively network and conduct cross-team share-outs which help others understand how the motion discipline contributes to strategic business goals. A Staff Motion Designer is an integral part of a Creative Studio team who mentors across creative disciplines, and collaborates across the BILL Marketing org to develop impactful work which delivers strong business outcomes. They act as design leaders, driving a design culture of excellence and growth, including identifying conflict and fostering resolution, mentoring peers and junior members of the creative team and beyond.

Requirements

7+ Years of Proven Impact: A track record of high-level motion design expertise transforming complex ideas into compelling visual narratives.
A deep understanding of core motion design principles, editing, composting, UI/UX and strong design fundamentals: form, color, composition, layout, and typography.
Mastery of Craft: Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud (After Effects, Premier Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop) Figma, and Lottie.
Applicants must have authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

3D proficiency (Cinema 4D / Blender)
Experience with creative AI workflows

Responsibilities

Act autonomously as a creative lead throughout fast-paced creative workflows to deliver high-bar and impactful creative marketing assets, while balancing business needs with technical and creative constraints.
Interpret and contribute to strategic briefs, evaluating and proposing creative approaches inline with business needs, propose design and motion solutions, iterate execution inline with stakeholder feedback, finalize and deliver creative assets.
Succinctly and professionally present work, logic, and feedback openly to senior leadership and stakeholders across Marketing and other BILL organizations, explaining changing priorities and using compelling arguments to convey conclusions and ideas. Ask clarifying questions, interpret feedback for others, and propose solutions to address efficiently.
Maintain and share up-to-date expertise and best-practices relevant to common workstreams and/or touchpoints. Seek and share similar information from regular stakeholders and partners.
Anticipate, flag, and propose solutions to avoid potential bottlenecks and roadblocks, and communicate project status with Project Managers regularly.
Establish mechanisms to actively maintain relationships with cross-functional teams to better understand their collaboration needs, concerns, and roadmaps. Identify conflict, lead steps and dialog to resolve, and incorporate learnings into processes to mitigate future conflict.
Manage and strategically iterate creative approaches, continually elevating personal creative bar and output, and driving elevated creative bar of the team. Actively identify areas for improvement across the team’s output, and develop tools to bring the team's body of work up to high-bar.
Actively manage personal career development, including defining and tracking quarterly goals, and seeking feedback around job expectations, performance, and promotion cadence. Independently identify “stretch” opportunities and initiate engagement and planning.