Motion Designer
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary:
$55 to $60/hr + benefits
Start Date:
06.30.2025
Our client is seeking a versatile and collaborative Motion Designer to join our team supporting a first-party app. In this role, you will work cross-functionally to create engaging, high-quality video content that enhances user experience. You will partner closely with design, product, and engineering teams, combining strong UX/UI animation skills with production expertise.
Responsibilities:
- Create polished motion graphics and animations for in-app experiences, videos, and marketing assets
- Collaborate with UX/UI designers to develop animations that enhance usability and delight users
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure creative consistency and technical accuracy
- Help define and maintain animation pipelines and best practices
- Contribute to ideation, storyboarding, prototyping, and post-production editing
- Explore and recommend new tools and plugins to improve workflow and output quality
Experience:
- 3–5 years of professional experience in motion design, animation, or video production
- Strong background in UX/UI animation and interaction design principles
- Expertise in After Effects, including compositing and use of plugins
- Proficiency with video editing, typography, and storytelling
- Familiarity with production pipelines and asset management
- Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, iterative environment
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with design, product, and engineering teams
- Strong attention to detail, time management, and creative problem-solving skills
Additional Requirements:
- Hybrid role: Based in Culver City, CA, working onsite 3 days per week
- Portfolio demonstrating strong motion design and UX/UI animation work is required
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Motion Graphics, Animation, or related field preferred, or equivalent professional experience
The target hiring compensation range for this role is $55 to $60 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.
About Aquent Talent:
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.
Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!
Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.
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Client Description
Our client, a leader in consumer electronics, is one of the greatest, most innovative, world-changing companies ever created! More like a cluster of start-ups versus a large company, they are single-handedly credited with creating some of the most impactful products of this generation.
Working alongside some of the brightest and most talented people, the work you do here will add up to something big that could not be done anywhere else. There is no doubt that your best work will be brought out achieving some hefty goals at a heroic pace.