Motion Designer Job at Orca Pacific: A Monks Company in Austin

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About The Role

Monks is looking to hire an enthusiastic Motion Graphics Designer who will push our assets to a new level.

Must be a tech-focused designer who can consistently deliver innovative, jaw-dropping and thumb-stopping visuals for social and digital.

This artist should also have a strong passion for music, entertainment, and pop culture.

The ideal candidate must have experience working with templated projects, be able to handle fast turnarounds, and be able to excel under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Working as part of a dedicated client team, you’ll edit and animate campaign and social content for a top-name (and top-secret) brand.
• Design and animate titles, end cards and accompanying graphics for different platforms
• Work closely with art directors to concept creative solutions for clients
• Work with the creative team and production to understand project scope and objectives.
• Keeping up to date with latest design/animation techniques
• Adaptation of campaign assets - logo and artwork preparation, retouching, color grading etc.
• Light editing
• Export and deliver appropriate files to the specification given.
• General IT housekeeping of software, plugins, assets, style-guides etc.
• Compliance with guidelines, deadlines and design standards.
• Adhere to internal workflow and process
• Ability to find workflow efficiencies and optimization across the pipelines is a plus.

About You

The essentials:

• Must have at least 2+ years of agency advertising experience
• Must be a bright, articulate, self-starter who can take initiative and bring new ideas to the table.
• Must be able to work closely with a team of graphic designers, editors, and art-directors.
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Suite (After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere) is ideal
• Proficiency in Cinema 4D is a plus
• Familiarity with Mac Systems
• Typography, Layout and Design skills
• Experience working within strict brand guidelines, as well as adapting campaign look & feel
• Passionate about design, and a student of social trends
• Possess a willingness to explore multiple options and adapt to stakeholder feedback
• Professional, efficient, organized, detail-oriented, have excellent follow-through, and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Have the ability to work independently and collaboratively and to successfully manage concurrent and competing projects
• You will be expected to adhere to a high level of confidentiality

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.

Benefits

What We Offer

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth.

Monks has provided a compensation range 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 salary 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.

Salary Range $75,000—$90,000 USD

About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital 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 to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects.

Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.