Senior Motion Designer

We are looking for a Senior Motion Designer to help shape how SpaceXSI moves and shows up in the world. This role is built for someone who has built motion systems in fast-moving environments, cares deeply about craft, and brings an AI-first mindset to how creative work gets made. You'll join the Brand Studio, the team behind the brand across the entire SpaceXSI ecosystem, and help define both the motion language of the brand and how it comes to life in our campaigns and products.

This is a hands-on role. Much of the foundation is still being built, so you'll spend real time animating and making things yourself. It also comes with significant ownership: you'll lead projects from first concept through final delivery, and your work will help set the bar for how the brand moves.

Responsibilities

• Define and extend the brand's motion language and document it so other teams can apply it correctly.

• Turn recurring motion work into repeatable, AI-assisted workflows: templates, tools, and generators that let marketing, product, and other teams produce on-brand motion.

• Concept and produce motion end to end, from storyboards through final delivery, across launch films, product videos, social, paid, web, and out-of-home.

• Partner with product designers and engineers to bring brand motion into product surfaces.

• Direct agencies, animators, and freelancers with clear briefs and candid feedback.

• Partner with marketing, product, engineering, and leadership; bring a motion point of view to new surfaces as they appear.

• Move between projects quickly while holding a consistently high bar, and keep improving the process.

Requirements

• 6+ years of motion design experience.

• Fluency in After Effects, Cinema 4D or Blender, Figma, and Adobe Creative Cloud.

• Experience in AI coding tools, especially Cursor.

• Hands-on experience with AI video and image generation tools.

• A reel and portfolio that show both motion system work and shipped campaigns.

• Sharp instincts for timing, rhythm, typography in motion, and storytelling.

• Experience in animation workflows from conceptualization to execution.

• A systems mindset: naturally turning one-off tasks into reusable processes.

• Conviction in design decisions and the ability to explain why they matter.

• Self-directed, fast, and energized by variety and ambiguity.

Nice to Have

• Experience building or relaunching a brand's motion identity at a fast-growing tech company.

• Experience with real-time or code-based motion.

• 3D modeling, lighting, and rendering skills.

• Sound design sensibility.

• Experience leading agencies on large, multi-channel campaigns.