Job Overview
Location
New York City
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Design
Date Posted
May 16, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead motion design across a range of client projects including launch videos, commercials, product explainers, social content, and brand campaigns for tech startups
- • Create high-quality motion work from concept through final delivery, specializing in 2D animation, UI animation, typography, compositing, and edit-driven animation
- • Define the visual direction, pacing, transitions, and motion systems for client projects, ensuring cohesive and impactful storytelling
- • Collaborate closely with producers, editors, designers, and directors to translate concepts into polished, client-ready animations
- • Review and provide constructive feedback to other motion designers to maintain a high creative standard across all deliverables
- • Mentor and guide the motion team through weekly critiques, workflow support, and creative direction to elevate team performance
- • Build scalable templates, systems, and processes that improve consistency, efficiency, and reusability across multiple concurrent projects
- • Balance rapid turnaround with exceptional quality while managing multiple deadlines across diverse client engagements
- • Push creative boundaries beyond conventional approaches, refining work until it feels exceptional through attention to detail and nuanced timing
- • Improve the overall motion pipeline, organization, and creative process as the team scales to support growing client demand
- • Serve as both an individual contributor and team leader, capable of shipping the most complex animation sequence while simultaneously unblocking teammates
- • Operate effectively in a fast-moving studio environment, adapting to shifting priorities and tight deadlines without compromising creative integrity
- • Deliver clear written feedback in Figma, lead remote critiques on Zoom, and maintain team alignment across time zones with minimal supervision
- • Maintain calm, organized, and dependable workflows under pressure, ensuring timely delivery of high-impact client work
- • Contribute to the evolution of motion design practices at Nen Creative by identifying gaps in process and proposing scalable solutions
🎯 Requirements
- • 7+ years of experience in motion design, ideally across both product/UI motion and brand or marketing work
- • Track record of leading or mentoring other motion designers
- • A strong reel demonstrating range across launch films, brand work, product motion, and social
- • Expert in After Effects and Figma
- • Fluency in at least one 3D tool (Cinema 4D, Blender, Spline, or similar)
- • Real visual design fundamentals — type, layout, color, composition, timing
🏖️ Benefits
- • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- • 401(k)
- • PTO
- • Company holidays
Skills & Technologies
About Nen Creative Ltd
Nen Creative is a UK-based branding and digital design agency that works with cultural, public-sector and third-sector organisations. Founded in 2004, the studio delivers brand strategy, visual identity, digital and print design, web development and communications campaigns for clients including universities, museums, charities and government bodies. The team combines research-led insight with creative execution to help organisations articulate purpose, engage audiences and drive social impact. Services span naming, messaging, logo design, guidelines, UX/UI, accessible websites, editorial design and motion graphics, delivered through collaborative workshops and iterative prototyping.
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