# Motion Designer - The Heist

**Company**: The Heist
**Location**: Chicago
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: Full-Time
**Salary**: USD 80,000-90,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Other

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## Description

We're seeking an Intermediate Motion Designer to join our growing team. As a versatile motion generalist, you have strong foundations in both 2D and 3D, leaning towards 2D, with a superpower in thoughtful type, composition, and UI-driven storytelling.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Designing and animating motion content across 2D and 3D workflows for brand campaigns, product stories, and experiential work

- Creating elegant type-driven animation, transitions, and UI motion for digital experiences

- Developing design boards, style frames, and motion references that bring concepts to life

- Collaborating with creative directors, art directors, and designers to deliver elevated visual systems and storytelling

- Contributing to pitch decks, mood boards, and visual directions for new projects

- Participating in reviews, sharing feedback with teammates, and helping maintain a high craft bar

- Staying curious about emerging motion trends, tools, and techniques

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

- 3 to 5 years of motion design experience in a studio or agency environment

- Strong 2D and 3D design and animation skills, with a focus on 2D

- Demonstrated strength in type animation, UI motion, and clean composition

- Proficiency in After Effects, Cinema 4D, and Adobe Creative Suite; familiarity with Figma and Unreal is a bonus

- Confidence in building styleframes, motion tests, and visual explorations

- Ability to take creative direction and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams

- Strong attention to detail and a passion for thoughtful design craft

- A portfolio showcasing a range of motion work, including 2D, 3D, UI, and type-led pieces

We offer a range of benefits, including:

- Monday to Thursday in-office work with flexible Fridays

- Flexible time off, including paid vacation and sick days

- Consistent culture and team-building events

- Employee recognition and incentive programs

- Seasonal celebrations and gatherings throughout the year

- Office lunches

- Branded company swag

- Access to industry events, learning opportunities, and non-profit outreaches

- Dog-friendly offices

- Unlimited coffee, drinks, and snacks

- Flex work and travel options

- Comprehensive extended health benefits

- 401k matching

## Skills

### Required
- After Effects
- Cinema 4D
- Adobe Creative Suite
- type animation
- UI motion
- clean composition
- motion design

### Nice to have
- Redshift
- Octane
- Houdini
- procedural workflows
- accessibility and UX best practices in motion
- Figma
- Unreal

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