Senior Motion Designer
Instant
Design
New York, NY, USA
Posted 6+ months ago
Senior Motion Designer
Instant seeks a creative Motion Designer to supercharge our brand.
Instant is a technology company on a mission to power the world's most innovative brands, driving their revenue and retention on autopilot. We have grown revenue 16x in the last 6 months, and want you to be a critical part of scaling up this velocity even further!
Instant is seeking a Senior Motion Designer to join the design crew. This passionate team gives shape to the ways Instant shows up and interacts with the world through brand touch-points, marketing efforts and social channels. The team values makers who are curious, think deeply, ego-free, enjoy collaboration, and appreciate feedback.
As a Motion Designer, you bring to life a variety of dynamic brand expressions across many surfaces including Instant’s website, social channels, and events. This is a highly collaborative role, partnering closely with wider teams to give shape to projects that build awareness of the Instant brand and product benefits in engaging and novel ways. This role is essential in maintaining and evolving our brand’s motion design sensibility and actively provides a critical eye to the level of detail, polish, craft, and consistency in our overall output. The ideal candidate for this role is a self-motivated systems thinker with a deep understanding of visual storytelling and excited to elevate any project.
What you’ll do at Instant:
Contribute to all stages of animation / video creative development, from ideation and storyboarding to production and final delivery
Develop, champion and influence how the Instant’s brand expresses itself through motion and develop guidelines, systems, and processes to ensure quality and consistency at scale
Collaborate cross-functionally (eg: editorial, social, events, research, product marketing, etc) in ways that elevate output
Lead as a domain-expert by pitching new video concepts and formats that serve our global audience
Work closely with other designers and developers in implementing engaging and dynamic motion solutions across Instant’s web surfaces
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
Strong critical thinking and storytelling skills
A dynamic portfolio and/or motion reel showcasing technical 2D animation expertise, a high-level of craft, and a great sense of timing
Effectively communicate concepts and design rationale
Able to work independently, drive multiple projects at a time, and iterate quickly
Experience and interest in building and extending motion systems
Comfortable in your soft skills: listening, negotiating, and decision-making
Instant, more than just a job.
Competitive Salary – We commit to paying globally competitive salaries to our incredible team.
Everyone is an owner — Everyone at Instant is an owner, having equity in the company so we can all benefit from our hard work and future success.
Personal Wellness — Each team member receives an annual $1,000 allowance to spend across Wellness, Growth and Lifestyle. This could contribute towards a gym membership or educational course.
KitKat Days — We have a quarterly KitKat day where our entire team, just like the slogan, takes a long-weekend break.
Life Leave — Supporting work/life balance at Instant with an extra 2 paid days off per year for ‘Life!’ to assist with moving house or your kids sports carnival for example.
Company Socials — We allocate an annual social budget towards regularly having fun, taking a break and getting to know each other a little more as a team! Previously we have done Axe Throwing, Go-Karting and even Surfing together… just to name a few.
Company Offsites — Yearly all-team offsite to celebrate achievements, as well as dig deep together on company strategy, opportunities and the exciting future ahead.
Flexible Home vs Office — Instant prioritises the value, creativity and energy of being together in person,. We have a flexible balance, and work from home 2 days per week (Mondays and Fridays).
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