Staff Motion Designer - 3D

Role overview The most senior motion design role on the in-house brand team of a financial technology company, responsible for shaping how the brand moves across product launches, campaigns, and everyday product surfaces. The work spans high-craft 3D brand worlds and the day-to-day motion, UI, and interaction craft that defines the product's feel, with a meaningful mandate to define how AI fits into a motion practice.

Responsibilities - Lead motion concepts for major product launches, campaigns, and brand moments, with strong 3D capability across product visualization, environments, and brand worlds. - Build 3D worlds, materials, textures, and lighting that give flagship launches a distinct, recognizable identity. - Lead storytelling through title design, typography, transitions, diagrams, and UI motion that turn complex products into clear visual narratives. - Define and maintain the motion design system, including principles for typography, pacing, transitions, product UI, sound, and interaction. - Build and champion AI-assisted workflows for pre-vis, storyboarding, and asset generation, and evaluate new AI creative tools for the team's pipeline. - Partner with Design, Writing, Narrative, and Production from concept through delivery, and art-direct specialist animators, 3D artists, and outside studios when additional scale is needed.

Requirements - 10+ years of professional motion design experience with a portfolio showing mastery across both 3D and 2D work. - Advanced proficiency in Cinema 4D, Houdini, Blender, or comparable 3D tools, including materials, texturing, lighting, and world-building. - Advanced proficiency in After Effects or similar 2D motion tools, with strong command of timing, easing, composition, and finishing detail. - Experience building and documenting motion systems or brand guidelines, not only one-off deliverables. - Track record art-directing or mentoring designers, animators, or external studios, leading by example. - Genuine fluency with AI tooling as part of a creative practice, with judgment about where AI helps and where handcraft is essential. - Strong communication skills and a collaborative, idea-driven leadership style.

Nice to have - Exposure to scripting or procedural workflows such as expressions, Houdini VEX, or Python.

Benefits and work setup - Target US base salary ranges from $170,400 – $213,000 outside the NYC, LA, Seattle, and Bay Area metros, and $189,400 – $236,700 within those metros. - Canadian target base salary range of $179,000 – $223,700 CAD. - Total rewards package includes base salary, equity (stock options and/or RSUs), and benefits, with offers set using current market compensation data and internal pay equity.