HelloKindred connects people and teams to success. We partner with global brands to deliver exceptional creative, marketing, and digital talent. Through our on-demand creative services studios, we help clients move from ordinary to exceptional.
The Opportunity
We're looking for a Mid-Level Motion Designer to join our creative studio. This is a motion-first role with strong video editing capabilityideal for someone who loves animation craft but can also assemble polished, narrative-driven edits when needed.
You'll work as a shared creative resource across multiple client accounts, collaborating closely with project managers and design leads to deliver high-quality motion and video work.
You'll contribute to brand campaigns, explainers, social content, presentation assets, and mixed-media projects across global teams.
What You'll Be Doing
You'll collaborate with designers, writers, creative leads, and account teams to create high-impact motion and video assets. On any given day, you may:
- Turn static designs, scripts, and concepts into clean, intentional motion graphics in After Effects.
- Animate typography, icons, brand elements, UI flows, and short-form explainers.
- Build storyboards, style frames, animatics, and motion variations for multi-market use.
- Edit videos in Premiere Prointerviews, testimonials, b-roll sequences, social cutdowns, product clips.
- Ensure pacing, rhythm, typography, and transitions feel refined and on-brand.
- Prepare assets for multiple formats and platforms (16:9, 9:16, 1:1, web, social).
- Maintain consistent file structures, versioning, and clean project organization.
- Partner with multiple internal teams and project managers, managing your workload across varied brands and timelines while maintaining quality.
- Provide creative input and challenge briefs when a better motion approach exists.
What We're Looking For
Experience that matters
- 47 years of professional experience as a motion designer.
- Agency background or similar fast-paced creative environment.
- A portfolio that shows strong 2D motion workanimation, timing, typographyand competent video editing.
- Experience working with structured brand systems, ideally for global clients.
Skills you'll use daily
Motion Design (Primary)
- Advanced proficiency in After Effects.
- Strong animation fundamentalstiming, easing, composition, rhythm.
- Ability to build animated explainers from scripts or outlines.
- Kinetic typography and transitions.
- Storyboarding and style-frame creation.
Video Editing (Secondary but strong)
- Proficiency in Premiere Pro.
- Comfortable cutting interviews, testimonials, reels, mixed-media sequences.
- Good sense of narrative flow, clarity, and pacing.
- Basic color correction and sound cleanup.
- Ability to assemble complete videos end-to-end using motion, footage, and graphics.
- Ability to accurately transcribe and subtitle videos.
Design Foundations
- Strong layout, typography, and hierarchy.
- Ability to create or adapt design assets as needed.
- Confidence working within detailed brand guidelines.
What'll Make You Stand Out
- Experience working with international brands or distributed teams.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted creative tools (Firefly, Runway, generative fill, etc.).
- Basic exposure to 3D (Cinema4D or Blender).
- Ability to build reusable motion templates for brand systems.
- A natural eye for storytelling through motion + edit.
The Process
- Portfolio review
- Motion & editing assessment
- Final conversation with the team
What's in It for You
- Work across high-impact creative projects in multiple industries.
- Join a collaborative, skilled design team that values craft and modern workflows.
- Hybrid working modelflexibility when you need it, collaboration when it counts.
- Exposure to global teams and strong professional growth pathways.
Ready to Apply
If you're a motion designer who can animate with intention and edit with confidence, we'd love to see your portfolio.
HelloKindred is committed to building diverse, inclusive teams. We welcome applications from all backgrounds.
