Motion Designer
Location
San Francisco, CA
Level
Senior
Department
Design
Type
Full - Time
Salary
Job Description
Posted on:
January 18, 2023
As a Motion Designer on our team, you will collaborate cross-functionally with many different teams across the organization. You will deliver on prioritized product initiatives and marketing campaigns where we can apply motion design and animation to highlight product features and help develop unique motion patterns. You will contribute to the Design leadership team’s vision of how we continue to define, shape, and grow Grammarly’s Brand Design system. You will focus on how motion design plays a significant part in building a dynamic brand identity system in its current state, as well as in its future state with a brand refresh. You will help ensure Grammarly’s brand continues to become one of the most design-first brands in the world.
Responsibilities
- Deliver motion design work from start to finish, both autonomously and as part of a team, with a focus on brand, product, and web design.
- Develop storytelling through motion animations, such as product depictions and demos.
- Collaborate with other Design team members to maintain a cohesive, consistent experience wherever our brand comes to life.
- Ideate on creative experiments that will be tested for performance.
- Partner cross-functionally with colleagues who focus on campaigns, emails, websites, and product features.
- Help create motion design systems and processes that guide and streamline work.
- Report to our Brand Design Manager.
Job Requirements
- Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
- Is able to collaborate in person in San Francisco 3 weeks per quarter.
- Has a minimum of 4 years’ experience as a designer on growing design teams.
- Has motion skills (Lottie animations) and foundational skills in visual brand design (typography, color, composition, and illustration).
- Can develop storytelling through motion, from storyboarding animations to completion.
- Has solid written and verbal communication skills to encourage alignment across functions and departments.
- Is excited about working with ambiguity.
- Approaches the design process without ego and with a learning mindset.
- Focuses relentlessly on our customers’ needs and proactively finds ways to add delight to any experience with motion and animation.
- Has experience creating motion design systems and processes that guide and streamline work.
- Can give and recieve design feedback.
- Has skills in Figma, AfterEffects, other core Adobe Creative Cloud apps (AI, INDD, PSD), and, as a bonus, HTML and CSS.
