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About the Role
As a Senior Motion Designer, you will create high-quality graphic and motion design assets, from static visuals to animated content and edits, to bring brand and campaign ideas to life across social, web, OOH, and broadcast channels. This role requires a blend of craft, creativity, and technical skill with an understanding of channel-specific storytelling.
Responsibilities
- Lead graphic and motion design output across multiple briefs, ensuring creative excellence and strategic alignment.
- Deliver industry-leading, crafted assets that meet brief requirements, stay true to brand and campaign direction, and demonstrate attention to detail and platform-tailored expertise.
- Act as a client-facing design lead, confidently articulating creative rationale and representing design craft.
- Lead, coach, and mentor junior and midweight designers, developing their skills, modeling best practices, and contributing to a positive team environment.
- Champion AI-powered design tools within the team to enhance craft.
- Collaborate with Creative, Strategy, and Production to deliver integrated, visually consistent campaigns and ensure client satisfaction.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a senior designer, comfortable with motion and static design (agency or in-house).
- Expertise in creating platform-tailored assets across social, web, OOH, and broadcast.
- Ability to translate strategy into bold creative executions across any channel.
- Advanced technical understanding of design principles and application to trends and innovations.
- Skills in editing and crafting narrative-driven work.
- Leadership experience, including mentoring and providing constructive feedback.
- Proficiency in Adobe Suite, particularly After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
- Fluency in AI design and generation tools (Midjourney, Runway, Firefly, or similar) with a clear point of view on their use in a craft-led workflow.
- Self-driven problem solver with initiative and pride in work quality and delivery.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of managing expectations and anticipating challenges.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with simultaneous deadlines.
Skills
- Motion Design
- Graphic Design
- Animation
- Video Editing
- Brand Storytelling
- Channel-Specific Storytelling
- Client Facing Communication
- Mentoring
- AI Design Tools
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Problem Solving
- Time Management
Location
- New York City, USA
Work Type
- Hybrid Working
- Fix + Flex model
- 3 days in the office per week
- Wednesdays and Thursdays as Fix Days
- Flex days across Monday, Tuesday, and Friday
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $110,000 to $120,000
Benefits
- 20 days vacation a year
- 12 public holidays
- Full Paid Medical Insurance (including dental and vision)
- Annual performance bonus
- 401k matching plan
- Gym Membership contributions
- Free fruit, breakfast cereals, snacks, soft drinks and tea & coffee
- Free home office chair and screen
- Quarterly team offsites / Regular socials
- Free Citibike membership
- Recruitment referrals bonus
- Agile working policy
About the Company
- Born Social is a social-first creative agency that brings brand building into the social era, with a track record of delivering transformation for brands like Guinness, Ford, and Barclays.
- The agency is backed by a B-Corp certified business and is part of Croud, a global, full-service digital marketing business.
- Born Social and Croud are integrating to become a more unified business while protecting specialist expertise.
- The company has recently won its first integrated retainer in the US for a non-profit movement launching for the country's 250th anniversary in 2026.
Equal Opportunity
- Born Social celebrates different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds and is an equal opportunities employer, believing in the power of an inclusive and representative team.
- Applications are welcomed regardless of race, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, political affiliation, family, or parental status.
- Croud is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, ethnicity, age, disability or sexual orientation.
- All candidates will be assessed based on merit, qualifications and their ability to perform the requirements of the role.