Graphic Designer [211489]

About the role

This is a hybrid role in Redmond. Pay Range: $40/hr – $43/hr

Key Responsibilities

• Motion Design & Video Creation
• Create high-quality motion graphics, video edits, animations, and visual treatments for customer-facing, marketing, and social media use.
• Translate original files and product narratives into compelling video and motion design assets.
• Edit and refine video content to improve pacing, clarity, visual quality, and overall impact.
• Prepare video outputs for multiple formats, channels, and aspect ratios, including customer presentations, marketing campaigns, and social platforms.
• Ensure final deliverables are accurate, brand-aligned, accessible, and ready for stakeholder review or publication.
• Design Quality & Brand Execution
• Apply strong visual design judgment across composition, timing, typography, hierarchy, pacing, and storytelling.
• Maintain consistency with brand guidelines, design direction, and product experience standards.
• Identify opportunities to improve clarity, visual appeal, and customer relevance through motion and editing choices.
• Deliver work that balances creative excellence with practical production needs, business goals, and milestones/due dates.
• Production Management & Workflow
• Manage production responsibilities including file naming conventions, asset organization, version control, and delivery tracking.
• Maintain clear production timelines, milestones, deliverable schedules, and status updates across assigned projects.
• Track feedback, revisions, approvals, and final outputs to ensure work remains accurate and organized.
• Proactively communicate risks, blockers, dependencies, and changes that may affect delivery quality or timing.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Support
• Partner with design, product, and business stakeholders to understand goals and translate feedback into effective creative execution.
• Drive proactive communication, ensuring clear insights into timelines, deliverables, and blockers.
• Support reviews by preparing clear design options, revised cuts, and final motion/video assets for stakeholder evaluation.
• Work collaboratively in fast-moving production environments with evolving priorities, tight timelines, and multiple concurrent deliverables.
• Contribute creative recommendations that improve storytelling, customer understanding, and asset performance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Motion Design, Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Film/Video Production, Digital Media, Studio Art/Fine Art, or a related field.
• 2-4 years of professional motion design, video editing, or digital production experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe After Effects and/or Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Experience using additional creative tools such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating motion graphics, video editing, visual storytelling, and polished production execution.
• Experience creating video and motion assets for marketing, customer-facing, social, digital, or product-related content.
• Strong understanding of motion principles, typography, pacing, composition, visual hierarchy, and brand consistency.
• Able to manage file organization, naming conventions, version tracking, timelines, milestones, and production deliverables.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Able to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining high quality and attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience creating motion or video content for technology, productivity, SaaS, or enterprise customer scenarios.
• Familiarity with accessibility considerations for video, including captions, readable text, contrast, and clear visual communication.
• Experience working in structured production environments with formal review cycles, stakeholder feedback, and delivery tracking.

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.