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About the Role

MATTE is seeking an Associate Creative Director, Design with motion/animation expertise to lead creative development and direction across various projects. This senior role requires a blend of strong design, conceptual thinking, and experience managing motion, animation, CGI, VFX, and post-production workflows.

Responsibilities

Lead the ideation, design, and development of brand, campaign, experiential, content, digital, and motion-led creative.
Develop and communicate clear creative direction across visual identity, graphic design, motion, animation, and moving image.
Concept and collaborate with Creative Directors, Art Directors, Designers, Copywriters, Experience Designers, Strategists, and Producers.
Lead creative work from early concept and pitch stages through production and final delivery.
Translate concepts into clear briefs, storyboards, references, and creative direction for internal teams and external partners.
Maintain a high level of craft across multiple concurrent projects and fast-moving workstreams.
Create and deliver compelling client presentations and confidently communicate creative rationale.
Support new business pitches, presentation development, and pitch reviews.
Help determine the strongest creative approach, team, and production methodology for each assignment.
Contribute to the continued evolution of MATTE's own brand, creative vision, and expression across print, digital, and other owned channels.
Provide informed creative leadership across motion design, animation, CGI, VFX, and post-production projects.
Understand the workflows, production requirements, and technical considerations involved in creating high-quality animation and moving-image work.
Partner with Producers to determine appropriate production approaches, timelines, staffing, and external partners.
Scope and brief animators, motion designers, CGI artists, VFX teams, editors, and post-production partners.
Review work throughout production and provide clear, actionable creative feedback on animation, movement, timing, compositing, rendering, edit, and overall craft.
Identify technical or production risks early and work with Creative, Production, and Account teams to solve them.
Ensure concepts remain creatively ambitious while being achievable within production realities.
Lead motion and post-production reviews where appropriate and maintain clear communication between Creative, Production, and external partners.
Help build and maintain MATTE's network of motion, animation, CGI, VFX, and post-production talent and partners.
Stay current on emerging tools, technologies, and workflows across motion, 3D, real-time, AI-assisted production, and post.
Support Creative and Account Directors in ongoing client management.
Maintain strong working relationships with clients and confidently lead creative conversations and presentations.
Collaborate with Account teams to solve creative challenges and support strong client relationships.
Shepherd creative from concept through production, partnering closely with Producers and Project Managers to ensure successful delivery.
Maintain clarity across teams and keep stakeholders informed of creative, production, or post-production changes.
Collaborate with Creative Directors to develop thoughtful, distinctive, and impactful creative solutions.
Establish and maintain a consistently high visual and conceptual standard from concept through final execution.
Work within client brand systems while identifying opportunities to push the work creatively.
Ensure consistency across static, motion, experiential, and digital applications.
Review creative at key milestones and ensure the original creative intent carries through production.
Work strategically with internal teams to build, maintain, and improve creative processes, workflows, systems, and standards.
Lead, develop, and mentor Designers, Art Directors, and junior creative talent across projects.
Direct and motivate multidisciplinary teams, including internal talent, freelancers, studios, and agencies.
Work with Operations and Creative leadership to identify staffing needs and build the right teams for each assignment.
Help source, vet, recruit, and manage creative talent and external partners.
Maintain strong channels of communication across Creative, Production, Accounts, Project Management, and other teams.
Participate in and, where appropriate, lead creative reviews, status meetings, production reviews, and post-production meetings.
Help strengthen motion, animation, and production knowledge across the broader Creative and Design teams.
Maintain knowledge of current industry technology, trends, techniques, and emerging creative practices.

Requirements

7+ years of experience within a creative agency, design studio, production company, or similarly fast-paced creative environment.
4+ years leading significant creative projects and multidisciplinary teams.
A portfolio demonstrating strong design and creative direction across brand, campaign, content, experiential, and/or digital work.
Demonstrated experience directing motion design, animation, CGI, VFX, and/or post-production work is required.
Strong understanding of animation and post-production pipelines, including the ability to scope, brief, review, and guide specialist teams.
Experience taking projects from concept and pitch through production and final delivery.
Strong design judgment and the ability to provide clear, actionable feedback across both static and moving-image work.
Experience collaborating with Producers, production teams, external studios, artists, and vendors.
Ability to lead multiple projects and shifting priorities without sacrificing creative quality.
Strong client-facing communication and presentation skills.
Experience mentoring and developing creative talent.
Curiosity around emerging creative technologies and new approaches to design and production.

Skills

Motion Design
Animation
CGI
VFX
Post-production
Creative Direction
Design
Brand Strategy
Campaign Development
Experiential Design
Content Creation
Digital Design
Storyboarding
Client Presentations
Team Leadership
Mentoring
Emerging Technologies

Location

Remote

Work Type

Flexible work-from-home
Remote options

Experience Level

Associate Creative Director
Senior

Salary/Compensations

$130,000–$150,000/year

Benefits

Full Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
401(k) with a 4% company contribution max match, eligible after 6 months of employment
Fully covered yearly Citi Bike membership
Talkspace membership
Competitive PTO package
End of Year Recharge paid time off
Sabbatical Program option after three years of employment
Parental Leave for all new parents

About the Company

MATTE is a 360° creative studio at the convergence of culture, storytelling and design.
We bring people together to inspire new ways of engaging, provoke long-term progress and entertain audiences around the world, while helping forward-thinking brands and institutions do the same.
Our studio capabilities span strategy and insights, creative development, branding and identity, experiential, web design and development, campaigns and content creation, through full-scale production and execution.

Equal Opportunity

Everyone is welcome at MATTE - we’re passionate about building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and creating an environment where our differences are celebrated.
MATTE provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
In addition, MATTE will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.