Freelance Senior Motion Designer; Remote

Position: Freelance Senior Motion Designer (Remote) Location: New York About The Role Monks is looking to expand our creative service capabilities by hiring a Freelance Senior Motion Designer. Reporting to the Associate Director of Animation, you will be a trailblazer helping to build the creative offering for a top performance marketing agency. You will partner with our media buying team and alongside clients to develop creative that drives results. We are looking for a fast, flexible go-getter with a sharp eye, adept skills, and the drive to deliver top-notch creative for our clients. You’ll be responsible for animating paid media ads for digital channels (including but not limited to Facebook, Google, Instagram, Tik Tok, Linked In, You Tube) both net-new and from existing client materials. You’ll be somewhat of a motion generalist, at times jumping from animation into short-form video editing.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with our designers and producers, working together to create ads driving performance results for our client’s media programs
• Strong time management, leading multiple motion-based projects with tight timelines
• Project managing yourself, fluidly jumping between multiple projects
• Owning revision + resizing projects for our largest clients
• Conceptualize animated content optimized for paid media channels
• Possessing an understanding or willingness to learn paid media channel best practices
• Fluency in the Adobe Creative Cloud, focused in After Effects + Premiere Pro
• Self-starter, problem-solver & team-player
• Effectively communicate animation concepts, ideas and limitations to creative and non-creative teammates. Will be asked to articulate animation choices and defend decisions
• Offer new angles, best practices and practical solutions to our motion design workflows
• Openness to team and client feedback
• Be eager to push the limits within your work and your personal development

About You The essentials:

• 4-6 years technical experience with motion design and video editing, preferably at a performance-focused agency
• Portfolio is required
• In-depth knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite with proficiency in Adobe After Effects and Premiere
• Experience in paid media ad animation
• 4 year college degree (preferably in design) or equivalent work experience

Not a Must, But a Plus

• Experience with HTML5 ad animation
• Experience using Gen AI tools for ad builds and concepting
• Experience building versioning workflows or working with automated versioning tools
• Familiarity with Google suite
• B2C and B2B experience

At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.

What We Offer

Monks has provided an hourly rate that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The rate offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status. Hourly Rate: $40—$55 USD About Monks Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition. We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

Industries

• Advertising Services

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