Senior Motion Designer

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Walker Sands is seeking a Senior Motion Designer to join our Creative team. This role is for a craft-driven motion designer with exceptional taste — someone who can flex across animation styles, elevate brand systems through motion, and push work from solid to standout.

You’ll partner closely with creative leadership and cross-disciplinary teams to concept, design, and execute motion work for some of the most recognizable B2B brands in the world.

Key Responsibilities

• Help shape and uphold the agency’s motion design vision, philosophy, and production standards alongside creative directors and senior designers.
• Concept and execute best-in-class motion design for client and internal Walker Sands marketing — from idea through final delivery.
• Lead motion projects end-to-end, including storyboards, asset prep, animation, and delivery — translating diverse brand systems into compelling, cohesive motion experiences.
• Confidently adapt your animation style to meet the needs of different brands, audiences, and channels, while maintaining a high bar for craft.
• Collaborate closely with creative directors, designers, copywriters, project managers, and account teams throughout the creative process.
• Participate actively in weekly creative reviews — critiquing, challenging, and celebrating work with clarity and respect.
• Clearly articulate and defend your creative decisions to internal stakeholders and clients, incorporating feedback without compromising quality.
• Mentor and support other motion designers by sharing technical expertise, refining animation craft, and helping elevate the overall quality and consistency of motion work across the team.

About You 

• You have a deep understanding of motion design principles and a strong point of view on animation, pacing, typography, and storytelling.
• Craft matters to you — you sweat the details and know when subtlety makes the most significant impact.
• You’re highly versatile and comfortable shifting animation styles, tones, and visual languages across a wide range of brands and project types.
• You’re relentlessly curious and constantly refining your skills, staying inspired by the best work in the industry.
• You thrive in a fast-paced agency environment and enjoy solving creative challenges under evolving constraints.
• You’re a self-starter with high standards: you take direction, push ideas further, and confidently advocate for your work.
• You value feedback and see critique as essential to personal growth and creative excellence.
• You have an online portfolio showcasing exceptional motion craft, stylistic range, and thoughtful design decisions across diverse projects.
• You have 5–10 years of professional experience and formal training in animation, motion design, or a related discipline.
• You’re highly proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, including After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Premiere.
• Explore, evaluate, and help define best uses of AI in motion design — identifying where emerging tools can enhance concepting, workflows, and creative output while maintaining a high bar for craft and quality.
• You want to be part of a collaborative team that prioritizes ideas over egos, demands excellence, and genuinely enjoys working together.

Bonus

• You have strong video editing skills or experience integrating live action with motion.
• You have illustration and drawing skills and the ability to develop custom assets and expressive visual elements that enhance motion storytelling.
• Experience working with 3D tools and workflows, with the ability to integrate dimensional elements into motion design when it strengthens the concept.

Compensation & Benefits:

• We strive for salary range transparency in our hiring process. This is a major step towards not only complying with regulations where required, but also to make sure pay equity and DEI are top of mind during the hiring process. Base salary is only a part of the total rewards package - this role will also be eligible for a bonus based on company performance, as well as benefits. Below is the starting salary for this role:
  Starting Salary: $77,500 - $82,000 a year
• Placement on the salary scale will be determined by various factors, such as, but not limited to, relevant qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, education, business or organizational requirements and internal equity.
• Starting salaries are not inclusive of a full range of compensation for this role and are instead meant to reflect the expected beginning salary for a new hire. Merit-based increases can be earned after time in role.
• Total Rewards Package:
• 🩺 Health Coverage: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, plus mental health resources, pet insurance, fertility benefits, and more.
• 💰 Retirement Savings: Employer-matched 401(k) and access to financial planning services.
• 🌴 Flexible PTO: Take time as needed for vacations, mental health, or personal days. Includes 8 paid holidays, half-day summer Fridays, and a week off between Christmas and New Year.
• 🏡 Hybrid Work: Mix of in-office and remote work, with tools to stay connected across teams.
• 🎉 Milestone Sabbatical: Celebrate five years with a two-week sabbatical and a $2,000 gift.
• 👶 Family Support: Generous paid leave for new parents and caregivers, plus policies for pregnancy loss, adoption challenges, and more.
• 📚 Growth Opportunities: Clear career paths, mentorship programs, and learning events to help you grow professionally.
• 🌟 Culture: Our agency values our supportive, collaborative culture where we work hard to achieve the best outcomes for clients. Read more on our website here!

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