The Freelance Motion Designer will create and execute designs, collaborate with teams, and refine concepts while balancing project needs and feedback.
Role: Freelance Motion Designer
Level: Mid-level
Supervisor: Art Director/Design Director
Who we are:
We are a team of Proactive, Respectful, Communicative, Candid and Curious leaders seeking new team members who share our values. We are world-class experience designers, technologists, strategic thinkers and creators assembled to develop global design projects for adventurous, industry-changing Fortune 500 companies.
Who you are:
You support all forms of creativity with a strategic mind that can solve problems and take on complex challenges. You’ve got a track record of performance, a personal drive to do right, do better, and to challenge yourself. You have an authentic interest in creativity, technology, and design and you love to make, make, make!
Role Overview:
As a HUSH Motion Designer, you can balance workloads in various stages of production or pitch depending on the size and scale of your projects. You are communicative with your teammates and practice proven organizational and communication skills. In addition, you can articulate specific visions and opinions that help internal teams progress on a daily basis. Naturally, your portfolio of work rocks and shows a diversity of mediums and interests.
Focus: 80% making, and execution; 20% learning, and concepting
Key Responsibilities
•Collaborate with your teammates, inspire them and always seek knowledge.
•Work with the design, production and technology teams to deliver on project needs.
•Build trusted relationships with your teammates through communication and empathy.
•Find inspiration and help develop creative concepts with the greater team.
•Help refine presentation decks and project details.
•Discuss and be eager for feedback on design. Be nimble, and able to pivot.
Evaluation: Semi-annual meetings reviewing progress across core responsibilities, professional, and personal goals.
Requirements:
•3-5+ years of design experience in a high-paced design agency or corporation.
•Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience in design and related studies.
•Proven organizational, presentation and communication skills.
•Hard skills: 2D & 3D design software, animation, and/or interface design ability.
HUSH is an equal opportunity employer. We enthusiastically support diversity in the workforce.
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