Senior Motion Designer

The Role

You are an experienced motion designer and exceptional creative practitioner. Your days are spent relentlessly authoring ideas, designing motion systems, and bringing brands to life through exceptional craft. You are deeply hands-on, with a strong point of view and the ability to inspire the team around you.

Responsibilities

• Generate excellent ideas and articulate them expertly, both visually and verbally.
• Actively raise the quality of thinking and making around you.
• Spend a significant amount of your time designing.
• Create motion principles, systems, graphics and animation that come together to form world-class brand identities.
• Take ownership of motion from concept through execution, with an exceptional eye for craft, detail and what makes an idea distinctive.
• Collaborate intimately with designers, strategists, writers and the wider creative team, bringing a motion-first perspective while supporting and inspiring more junior talent.
• Translate strategic and creative thinking into meaningful motion principles, ensuring movement is rooted in the brand's idea rather than treated as an afterthought.
• Construct compelling client presentations, articulate the thinking behind your work and present ideas with clarity and confidence.
• Have a deep knowledge of branding, motion and contemporary creative culture.
• Be curious about the people, tools, and ideas shaping the industry, and bring that perspective into your work.
• Take ownership of your projects, time and development.
• Communicate proactively, act on feedback and know what it takes to deliver exceptional work.
• Be highly proficient in After Effects, with strong working knowledge of 3D, Figma, and emerging creative tools and technologies.
• Willing to work in person from our Culver City studio four days a week, playing an active role in the culture, energy and creative life of the team.

Qualifications

Deep knowledge of branding, motion and contemporary creative culture.

Curiosity about the people, tools, and ideas shaping the industry.

High proficiency in After Effects, 3D, Figma, and emerging creative tools and technologies.

Willingness to work in person from our Culver City studio four days a week.

Benefits

• Meaningful and regular access to your manager to support your personal development and career trajectory.
• Active rewards for performance with promotions, pay increases, and a discretionary annual bonus of up to 10% of salary to all employees.
• An equal environment for all its employees.
• Support for family leave, including significant paid maternity and paternity.
• Encouragement to take 25 vacation days yearly, in addition to US national holidays, and a studio closure between Christmas and New Year.
• A 401k with matching up to 4%.
• A monthly 'employee wellness' benefits package via Juno of $105 per month.
• Access to YCN and funding for relevant training opportunities.
• Rewards for five years of service with $5,000 and five days holiday.
• Rewards for ten years of service with $10,000 and four weeks' holiday.
• The opportunity to work from any of the four Koto studios globally, with appropriate planning and application.

Culture

We encourage our team to be 'rationally optimistic' about the potential of our work, our clients, their businesses, and the power of brand.

We pursue the best briefs, want to inspire meaningful work, and for those interested provide an opportunity to make the work of their lives.

We are actively cultivating leadership, culture and spaces to encourage this.

We work in person, with an optional WFH day on Friday and an additional two weeks of remote work per year.

We believe this produces the best work, mentoring opportunities, collective learning and culture.

We encourage autonomy among each member of our team, allowing them to manage their own time, hours, and personal commitments to complete work.