Lead Motion Designer
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Senior Motion Designer at Whatnot creating impactful motion graphics for campaigns and brand moments. Collaborating with teams to shape visual identity through innovative design.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate closely with marketing, product, and comms teams to develop and execute motion work that supports campaign strategies and business objectives.
- Concept and execute high-quality 2D and 3D motion graphics for campaigns, events, product launches, and brand activations, owning projects end-to-end from initial concept to final delivery.
- Animate 3D models and scenes with strong timing, pacing, camera work, and storytelling.
- Contribute to visual direction, layout thinking, and design exploration, ensuring motion is a driving force in how our brand shows up across digital and physical touchpoints.
- Work fluidly across Cinema 4D, Adobe Creative Suite, and Figma to bring ideas to life.
- Help evolve Whatnot’s motion language through experimentation and exploration, staying ahead of trends, emerging tools, and creative best practices to keep our motion work fresh, effective, and culturally resonant.
- Deliver polished, production-ready work under tight timelines while maintaining a high standard of craft.
Requirements:
- 5–8+ years of experience in motion design
- A portfolio showcasing highly polished motion design work across brand, campaign, and digital experiences.
- Expert-level proficiency in Adobe After Effects.
- Strong working knowledge of Cinema 4D/Redshift.
- The ability to produce refined, detail-oriented work under tight timelines.
- Confidence collaborating closely with designers, marketers, and creative leads to bring ideas to life.
- A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset in a fast-moving environment.
Benefits:
- Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
- Work From Home Support
- Home office setup allowance
- Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
- Care benefits
- Monthly allowance on wellness
- Annual allowance towards Childcare
- Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
- Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
- Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
- Parental Leave
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.
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