# Creative Director, Motion - The Heist

Who We Are Hi! We’re The Heist, the motion design, live action, and post production studio within Thinkingbox, the Brief-to-Built agency. We bring together directors, designers, animators, editors, and technologists to create work that moves. From brand films to broadcast spots to social campaigns and experiential content, our team blends craft and curiosity to push ideas further. Across our studios, collaboration is real, feedback is open, and culture matters. We take the work seriously. Ourselves, a little less so. The Opportunity The Heist is on the hunt for an exceptional, hands-on Creative Director, Motion, to join our team in Chicago. In this role, you’ll lead a tight-knit team of motion designers, crafting visually stunning 2D and 3D motion graphics and animation for high-impact marketing campaigns. Reporting to the Director of Animation, you will work on advertising projects for a diverse range of clients, ensuring each campaign’s creative vision aligns seamlessly with client goals. Your role includes hands-on creation, storyboarding, and collaboration with our animation team, as well as client-facing responsibilities. What You’ll Be Doing Lead and inspire a nimble team of

- **Id**: 3882046
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/thinking-box-creative-director-motion-the-heist>
- **Role**: Design
- **Role family**: Design
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chicago, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T18:28:15Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T01:04:00Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3451
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible time off
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Creative Agencies, Digital Marketing

## Company

- **Id**: 686830
- **Name**: Thinking Box
- **Domain**: thinkingbox.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/thinkingbox>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

## Salary

- **Min**: 160000
- **Max**: 175000
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 125052

## Technologies

- **Adobe After Effects** — Optional: no
- **Adobe Photoshop** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Redshift** — Optional: no
- **Cinema 4D** — Optional: no
- **Houdini** — Optional: no
- **Figma** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T18:28:15Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 125052
- **Is top pay**: no

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