Lead Motion Designer

📋 Description

• Develop exceptional styleframes, motion explorations, and visual directions across diverse media platforms.

• Establish aesthetic systems encompassing color palettes, lighting direction, composition, motion language, and rendering techniques.

• Convert strategy documents, briefs, and mood boards into detailed visual concepts.

• Create toolkits, look libraries, and visual guidelines that ensure consistency throughout the production process.

• Lead and manage nearshore/offshore artists and boutique studios, ensuring they align with the defined visual vision.

• Offer constructive, detailed feedback to uphold quality and consistency across all deliverables.

• Supervise visual outputs from distributed teams to ensure they adhere to craft and creative standards.

• Collaborate closely with the Animation Director to maintain and elevate the studio’s visual standards.

• Work in partnership with Creative Directors, Experience Designers, Producers, and Technical Directors to align visual design with narrative, interaction, and technical feasibility.

• Assist in pitches and new business initiatives through impactful visual exploration and look-development imagery.

• Guarantee that visual direction is effectively translated into real-time engines, large-format canvases, and immersive environments.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of professional experience in visual design, art direction, motion design, or animation for immersive content or digital experiences.

• Proven experience leading or directing distributed creative teams and vendor studios.

• Established capability to define a visual style and successfully guide its execution from concept to completion.

• Expertise in motion design principles, lighting, composition, and storytelling through imagery.

• Strong proficiency in creating styleframes, look development, and high-fidelity visual systems.

• Confidence in balancing hands-on creation with leadership and feedback responsibilities.

• Ability to translate abstract strategies into concrete visual outcomes.

• Advanced skills in tools such as Houdini, After Effects, Cinema 4D, Blender, Redshift/Octane, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Figma.

• Experience with real-time look development tools like Unreal, Unity, TouchDesigner, or Notch is highly advantageous.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted workflows or generative design tools is a plus.

• A background in experiential design, themed entertainment, museum media, or large-scale installations is highly regarded.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly articulate visual intent to both creative and technical stakeholders.

• Highly organized, adaptable, and capable of maintaining high standards across multiple simultaneous projects.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Professional development opportunities