Motion Designer

Ready to make pixels dance, swoosh, spin, and sparkle? We’re on the hunt for a Motion Designer / Animator who brings ideas to life with energy, precision, and a flair for storytelling, someone who’s fluent in the language of scroll-stopping social content and obsessed with how movement brings brands to life. While this role includes storytelling through motion, we’re especially looking for someone who excels at UI animation, someone who can breathe life into interfaces and make product functionality feel exciting, intuitive, and effortless.

You’ll join our creative team working on a fast-moving, high-profile tech client, turning big ideas into beautifully animated assets across social, digital, and video. Think Instagram Reels, TikToks, YouTube bumpers, animated explainers, launch hype videos, and the occasional “OMG how did they do that?” moment.

 If you love transforming static visuals into dynamic stories and can reimagine live UI in a way that works natively for vertical and social-first formats, you’re our kind of human.

Responsibilities

• Concept, storyboard, and animate original content for social media and digital campaigns
• Create compelling UI animations that elevate product functionality and feature moments
• Abstract and reimagine live product UI into simplified, social-native treatments optimized for vertical and mobile-first viewing
• Collaborate with art directors, copywriters, and strategists to bring tech-forward ideas to life
• Stay on top of social trends and formats (you know the ratio wars, you love the loop)
• Animate logos, typography, UI/UX demos, and slick product moments
• Add motion magic to brand guidelines while keeping everything polished and platform-optimized

Move fast, iterate faster—because tech time waits for no one

• This is a hybrid role, with 2 days per week in office required. You must reside in one of our US office locations: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Miami
• 3+ years of experience in motion design and animation, preferably for social/digital content
• Proven experience animating UI, product flows, or interface elements for web and mobile
• Ability to abstract live product UI to create stylized or simplified motion graphics tailored to platform-specific needs
• Proficiency in After Effects (a must), Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator—and bonus points for 3D (C4D, Blender, etc.)
  
  
• Deep understanding of how to design for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and beyond
• A sharp eye for timing, transitions, and visual rhythm
• A reel or portfolio that makes us say “Wow” (seriously, show us what you’ve got!)
• Experience working with tech brands or complex products
• Audio editing chops or sound design instincts
• Love for memes, motion trends, and niche corners of the internet
• Team spirit, low ego, and a high bar for quality
• Audio editing chops or sound design instincts
• Love for memes, motion trends, and niche corners of the internet
• Team spirit, low ego, and a high bar for quality

• Medical, dental, vision, and more!
• Generous time off package, including the last week of the year
• 401k & Roth retirement investment options with employer match after one year
• Gym and professional development stipends
• Culture Club with monthly activities like sports, games and happy hours
• DEI Council and Employee Resource Groups
• Commute and parking benefits
• Wellness program that focuses on mental, physical and financial employee wellness
• And much more!

SALARY RANGE: 71,000-88,500

ABOUT 1000HEADS

1000heads combines expertise in data & analytics, strategy, technology and creativity to help the world’s best businesses build Social Age brands. 1000heads provides a fully integrated, end-to-end Social Transformation™ proposition to blue-chip clients encompassing data & analytics, strategy and implementation. 1000heads has a global footprint, employing over 200 people across 12 offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Bogota, Sydney, Melbourne, Kuala Lumpur, Japan, Paris and Berlin. 1000heads’ clients include Alphabet, Nature Made, The North Face, San Pellegrino, Amazon, Cisco, and Diageo.

1000heads is an Equal Opportunities Employer, we are passionately committed to working together to promote an inclusive environment which celebrates and promotes diversity. We are committed to our belief that diversity in our team generates better and bolder ideas, creativity, understanding and respect. We welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.

For more information on 1000heads, visit 1000heads.com.