{"id":3988941,"url":"https://alion.io/job/thesis-senior-motion-designer","title":"Senior Motion Designer","company":{"id":122411,"name":"Thesis","domain":"thesis.agency","url":"https://alion.io/company/thesis-3","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"ADP","truth_index":null},"role":"Design","role_family":"Design","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Portland, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":75000,"max":95000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":95000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Adobe After Effects","optional":false},{"name":"Adobe Photoshop","optional":false},{"name":"Blender","optional":false},{"name":"Cinema 4D","optional":false},{"name":"Core Animation","optional":false},{"name":"FastAgency","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-09T22:41:01Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-09","last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T22:41:01Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About Thesis\nThesis is an independent agency working at the intersection of creativity, strategy, and technology. We partner with ambitious brands to solve complex business and marketing challenges and create ideas, experiences, and systems built to scale. We're evolving how we work to bring thinking and making closer together, build more accountable teams, and use technology and AI to expand what's creatively possible.\nRole Overview\nAs a Senior Motion Designer at Thesis, you are a master visual storyteller, craftsperson, and creative problem solver responsible for shaping and delivering high-impact animation and motion graphics across brand, digital, campaign, and content experiences. You are both a thinker and a maker with refined visual taste, strong storytelling instincts, and deep technical execution skills. You know how to translate complex ideas and static brand systems into dynamic motion that elevates narrative, strengthens brand identity, and drives audience engagement.\nYou take end-to-end ownership of the craft-from conceptualization, styleframe design, and storyboarding through final animation, sound integration, and technical delivery-while staying close enough to the work to meaningfully shape and elevate it. Embedded within multidisciplinary teams, you roll up your sleeves to push creative boundaries, collaborate closely with design, editorial, and creative leads, and mentor emerging motion designers, helping raise the creative and technical bar across the agency.\nKey Responsibilities\nMotion Craft & Creative Execution\nLead the design and animation of motion content across social, product, brand, campaign, and experiential assets.\n\nTranslate static design systems, typography, and storyboards into compelling motion, ensuring intentional pacing, visual rhythm, and brand alignment.\n\nDevelop styleframes, storyboards, and motion prototypes for internal exploration and client-facing reviews.\n\nMaster technical execution and delivery from start to finish, including clean project file organization, render optimization, audio synchronization, and multi-format output.\n\nMultidisciplinary Collaboration\nPartner closely with Creative Directors, Art Directors, Designers, Copywriters, and Editors to shape cohesive visual narratives and unified brand systems.\n\nParticipate actively in creative brainstorms and concept development, offering proactive ideas and provocations for how motion can elevate storytelling.\n\nCollaborate cross-functionally across Strategy, Technology, and Production to reduce handoffs, protect creative ambition, and ensure seamless delivery.\n\nAI, Technology & Making\nUse AI and emerging design and animation tools to accelerate exploration, prototype motion concepts, and increase the creative leverage of the team.\n\nPartner with Creative and Technology leads to explore new animation workflows, rendering techniques, and tools that keep Thesis's motion language fresh and forward-looking.\n\nScale creative output with modern technology without replacing human craft, originality, and artistic judgment.\n\nMentorship & Craft Standards\nMentor and guide junior motion designers and interns through constructive feedback, timing critique, and technical troubleshooting.\n\nSet a high creative and technical standard across the motion discipline while fostering ownership, craft rigor, and autonomy within the team.\n\nBalance creative ambition with scope, timing, technical constraints, and project realities.\n\nWho You Are\nA seasoned motion designer with 5-7 years of professional experience crafting animation and motion graphics in an agency, content studio, or in-house creative setting.\n\nA thinker and a maker with deep mastery of core animation principles-timing, easing, spatial rhythm, typography, composition, and visual flow.\n\nAn expert in Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, and video editing workflows (Premiere), with working knowledge of 3D software (Cinema 4D, Blender) and sound sync.\n\nA compelling visual storyteller who can build belief in ideas through styleframes, motion tests, and articulate rationale.\n\nCurious and experimental with AI, emerging technology, and new ways of making and animating.\n\nHighly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple deliverables and shifting priorities through ambiguity and fast agency cycles.\n\nCollaborative, accountable, low-ego, and passionate about elevating the craft and the people around you.\n\nBachelor’s degree in Motion Design, Animation, Graphic Design, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nRelationships\nReports to:Motion Design Lead or Creative Director, Motion\n\nDirect Reports & Teams:Mentors, guides, and supports Junior Motion Designers and Motion Design Interns across projects\n\nInternal Cross-Functional Partners:Collaborates with Art Directors, Copywriters, Designers, Creative Directors, Strategy Leads, UX/Product Designers, Editors, Sound Designers, and Production Partners\n\nExternal Partners:Serves as a motion design specialist in client-facing presentations and collaborates with external production partners and vendors\n\nWork Environment and Physical Demands\nThe following capabilities are required in order to perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations that do not create an undue burden on the agency are available to address the following requirements:\nUsing standard office equipment, computers, and related technology.\n\nCertain activities are performed in an environmentally controlled office setting subject to extended periods of sitting, keyboarding, and manipulating a computer mouse.\n\nBending, reaching, lifting, pushing, and pulling up to 25 pounds.\n\nThesis operates on a hybrid work model, with in-office collaboration Tuesday through Thursday and remote work on Mondays and Fridays.\n\nAs a proud B-Corp, Thesis prioritizes candidates based in the Portland Metro area to allow for a hybrid working set-up in our beautiful office in NW Portland.\n\nNo travel is anticipated for this role.\n\nInclusion and Encouragement\nWe know that experience can show up in many ways, and we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet 100% of the qualifications. If you're passionate about strategy, eager to grow, and excited to contribute your perspective, we'd love to hear from you.\nAt Thesis, we believe the best ideas come from bringing together diverse voices, experiences, and ways of thinking. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are not checkboxes-they are essential to how we work, collaborate, and create.\nWe are committed to fostering an environment where all employees can thrive and where every individual is treated with respect and dignity.\nThesis is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. We provide reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process for applicants with disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please contact Human Resources at .\nAs part of our commitment to equitable hiring practices, we do not request or consider applicants' salary history when making hiring decisions.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7090,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Animation","Graphic Design","Digital Marketing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-09T22:41:01Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":36,"reasons":["conf:3","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-10T02:14:43Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":95000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/thesis-senior-motion-designer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/thesis-senior-motion-designer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T02:14:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5292,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":122411},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=122411"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fthesis-senior-motion-designer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fthesis-senior-motion-designer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fthesis-senior-motion-designer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/thesis-senior-motion-designer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fthesis-senior-motion-designer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3988941}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"thesis.agency","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3988941},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}