Senior Motion Designer
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In the Senior Motion Designer position, you’ll be applying creative, technical, and editing expertise in video and motion for one of our high profile clients. This is a role where you’ll partner with internal creatives and project management teams, as well as have direct contact with clients, to come up with solutions to deliver video and motion assets that best meet their needs.
What you’ll do:
- Create high-quality visual and motion designs, from concept to execution, for digital video, social media, presentations, and out-of-home
- Edit and assemble high-quality digital video for online placement, out-of-home, social media, and presentations
- Take creative direction from creative leads on various projects
- Maintain consistent creative quality and brand integrity in deliverables
- Work on multiple projects concurrently and manage varying deadlines
- Communicate efficiently and effectively in a cross-functional team
- Instruct and mentor other motion designers within the team
- Be a standard bearer for our culture and values
Who we’re looking for:
- The ideal candidate is a go-getter who jumps on new opportunities, has impeccable design and typography skills, and works fast and flexibly to get the job done while maintaining acute attention to detail
- 5+ years of experience in video and/or motion graphics within an agency or video production studio environment
- A solid video/motion portfolio; showing a passion for pairing beautiful, functional, and innovative design with effective visual storytelling
- Thorough understanding and competency of animation concepts, video production and post-production, web design, and digital media
- Experience and proficiency in templates and template creation
- Expert using Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Adobe Media Encoder; 3D animation and/or VFX proficiency a plus
- Proficient knowledge and experience with different video formats, codecs, frame rates, audio compression, and standards for web video and GIF animations
- Experience and knowledge in creating expressions in After Effects
- Familiarity with Google Suite and Monday or other project management tools.
- Ability to work independently and be an excellent collaborator within a team
- Strong communication and presentation skills; this role is client-facing
- Ability to create templates and work within them
- Ability to interpret and follow brand guidelines
- Experience and fluency in: Google Slides, Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, AI tools (midjourney, gemini, firefly)
- Strong communication skills required
- Humble attitude—No egos here!
- Familiarity with music industry and trends is a plus
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About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
