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About the Role
Vox Media is seeking a Motion Design Lead who is both a skilled motion designer and an experienced leader. This role is responsible for conceptualizing and executing motion designs across platforms to create industry-leading branded content for New York Magazine and Vox. The Motion Design Lead acts as a player/coach with extensive experience in creating story-driven content for digital platforms and providing motion design leadership.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Art and Creative Directors to evolve the vision for motion design in branded content.
- Stay on the pulse of motion design trends, tools, and techniques, and proactively incorporate them.
- Push the level of design quality and sharpen Vox Media’s visual voice and aesthetic.
- Design and execute motion for advertising clients and internal projects, from concept through delivery.
- Bring expertise in visual storytelling across motion graphics, VFX, and 3D.
- Provide leadership and creative direction to freelance motion designers.
- Craft and initiate new visual products in partnership with other creative leads.
- Own the team’s motion design and animation best practices, establishing and evolving standards, workflows, and techniques.
- Develop and maintain brand guidelines for motion and animation.
- Act as an advocate for motion designers across every project.
- Contribute hands-on where needed and route work to the appropriate freelance artists.
- Collaborate closely with internal partners, clients, vendors, and outside resources.
- Act as a key creative stakeholder in brainstorms, kick-offs, and status meetings.
- Own motion timelines across projects, setting milestones, tracking progress, and flagging risks.
- Produce work end-to-end on select campaigns while overseeing others.
- Review the work of freelancers and provide clear, actionable notes.
- Partner with writers, producers, and video editors to align story and visual direction.
- Attend video shoots when VFX are involved.
- Act as the link between outside motion designers, video editors, creative directors, and art to coordinate asset handoffs and feedback.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience in motion design.
- Leadership experience guiding teams or freelancers.
- Fluent in Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator and Figma.
- Strong storytelling ability, moving between hands-on execution and creative leadership.
- A visual thinker with a deeply developed aesthetic and high visual taste.
- A collaborative approach to leadership.
- A background in graphic design is a plus.
- An understanding of typography, composition, color, and visual hierarchy.
Skills
- Motion Design
- Leadership
- Adobe After Effects
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Figma
- Visual Storytelling
- VFX
- 3D
- Graphic Design
- Typography
- Composition
- Color Theory
- Visual Hierarchy
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 8+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $110,000—$125,000 USD
Benefits
- Benefits-eligible
About the Company
- Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can show up as their authentic selves and create their best work.
- Great stories, platforms, products and services come from people with all manner of backgrounds and experiences.
- Commitments require ongoing work and sustained attention, as well as adaptation to new insights and best practices.
Equal Opportunity
- Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.
- Vox Media will also consider all qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable Fair Chance laws.
- We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations as part of the application process to candidates with disabilities.
- If you require a reasonable accommodation as part of the application process, please contact our recruiting team (recruitment@voxmedia.com).