Staff Motion Designer
About the role
A Staff Motion Designer at BILL is responsible for bringing the brand to life by leading the development, usage, and evolution of the motion discipline at BILL. This role involves driving foundational work streams such as brand standards, motion style guides, and templates for the brand. The designer leads and delivers high-bar motion work for marketing assets across digital experiences, hype videos, educational content, campaigns, email marketing, events, and more.
Responsibilities
- Act autonomously as a creative lead throughout fast-paced creative workflows to deliver high-bar and impactful creative marketing assets, while balancing business needs with technical and creative constraints.
- Interpret and contribute to strategic briefs, evaluating and proposing creative approaches inline with business needs, propose design and motion solutions, iterate execution inline with stakeholder feedback, finalize and deliver creative assets.
- Succinctly and professionally present work, logic, and feedback openly to senior leadership and stakeholders across Marketing and other BILL organizations, explaining changing priorities and using compelling arguments to convey conclusions and ideas.
- Ask clarifying questions, interpret feedback for others, and propose solutions to address efficiently.
- Maintain and share up-to-date expertise and best-practices relevant to common workstreams and/or touchpoints.
- Seek and share similar information from regular stakeholders and partners.
- Anticipate, flag, and propose solutions to avoid potential bottlenecks and roadblocks, and communicate project status with Project Managers regularly.
- Establish mechanisms to actively maintain relationships with cross-functional teams to better understand their collaboration needs, concerns, and roadmaps. Identify conflict, lead steps and dialog to resolve, and incorporate learnings into processes to mitigate future conflict.
- Manage and strategically iterate creative approaches, continually elevating personal creative bar and output, and driving elevated creative bar of the team.
- Actively identify areas for improvement across the team’s output, and develop tools to bring the team's body of work up to high-bar.
- Actively manage personal career development, including defining and tracking quarterly goals, and seeking feedback around job expectations, performance, and promotion cadence.
- Independently identify “stretch” opportunities and initiate engagement and planning.
Requirements
A Staff Motion Designer should have 7+ years of proven impact: a track record of high-level motion design expertise transforming complex ideas into compelling visual narratives. They should have a deep understanding of core motion design principles, editing, composting, storyboarding, UI/UX, and strong design fundamentals: form, color, composition, layout, and typography. Mastery of Craft: Proficiency with Figma, Lottie, Adobe Creative Cloud (After Effects, Premier Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop). Curiosity, experience, and knowledge with creative AI tools and workflows. 3D proficiency (Cinema 4D / Blender) is a plus.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate should have:
- A Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, Film Production, or a related field.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, creative environment.
- Strong portfolio showcasing a range of motion design projects.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Proficiency with industry-standard software such as Figma, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
- Experience with creative AI tools and workflows.
- 3D proficiency (Cinema 4D / Blender) is a plus.
Skills
Key skills required for this role include:
- Expertise in motion design principles, editing, composting, storyboarding, UI/UX, and design fundamentals.
- Proficiency with Figma, Lottie, Adobe Creative Cloud (After Effects, Premier Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop).
- Knowledge of creative AI tools and workflows.
- 3D proficiency (Cinema 4D / Blender).
Benefits
BILL offers a competitive benefits package that includes:
- Medical, dental, and vision plans (choose HMO, PPO, or HDHP)
- HSA & FSA accounts
- Life Insurance, Long & Short-term disability coverage
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 11+ Observed holidays and wellness days and flexible time off
- Employee Stock Purchase Program with employee discounts
- Wellness & Fitness initiatives
- Employee recognition and referral programs
- And much more
Pay
The estimated salary ranges noted below roles in the specific geographic zones:
- Zone 1- San Francisco Bay Area CA (includes HQ), New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles County: $121,000—$151,200 USD
- Zone 2- CA (Non San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles County), Austin TX, Massachusetts: $108,800—$136,000 USD
- Zone 3 -Utah (includes Utah office), Houston TX, Florida, North Carolina: $102,700—$128,400 USD
Schedule
This role is full-time and remote-eligible.