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Senior Motion Designer

Northern Trust · Chicago, IL · 3 wk ago
HybridArt & Creative$83k–$141k/yrFull-time

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Motion Designer to join our Creative team—a strategic visual storyteller with deep expertise in motion graphics, animation, visual effects, and scalable motion systems. This role will concept, design, animate, and deliver high-impact motion work across brand, campaign, social, digital, executive, and event channels while helping evolve how motion is created, governed, and scaled across the enterprise. The Senior Motion Designer transforms strategy, scripts, briefs, and design direction into polished motion experiences that bring ideas to life with clarity, craft, and brand consistency. This role spans motion graphics, animation, visual effects, typography in motion, storyboarding, style frames, concept development, editing, sound, color, and post-production for campaign videos, social content, digital advertising, executive communications, event content, explainers, templates, and modular motion assets. The ideal candidate can own complex motion assignments from concept through delivery, elevate the brand’s motion language, build reusable systems and templates, and support scalable production models, self-service tools, and AI-enabled creative workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Create Motion Graphics, Animation & Visual Effects: Design and animate motion graphics, typography, titles, transitions, visual effects, data visualizations, iconography, end cards, and branded motion elements.
  • Bring complex ideas, messages, and brand stories to life through clear, engaging motion concepts and polished animation.
  • Create cutdowns, versions, aspect ratios, and platform-specific motion adaptations while maintaining brand consistency.
  • Develop Storyboards, Style Frames & Motion Concepts: Translate briefs, scripts, data points, and creative direction into storyboards, style frames, animatics, and finished motion solutions.
  • Explore visual approaches that balance strategic clarity, brand expression, accessibility, and production efficiency.
  • Partner with creative, strategy, marketing, and production teams to shape

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