Senior Motion Designer (Remote)

ezCater is the leading food for work technology company in the US, connecting anyone who needs food for their workplace to over 100,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from recurring employee meals to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 customer service with real humans. ezCater also enables companies to manage their food spend in a single, customizable platform. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps them grow their business by bringing them more orders and new high-value customers.  We're backed by top investors including Insight, Iconiq, Lightspeed, GIC, SoftBank, and Quadrille.

As a Senior Motion Designer, you will be pivotal in shaping and executing our brand's visual narrative through dynamic motion graphics, animations, and video content. You'll lead the charge in translating our brand into captivating visual stories that resonate across digital, social, and experiential platforms. This role offers the opportunity to lead innovation in our brand identity and significantly impact our presence in the B2B media landscape.

The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in design and video production. This role ideates and executes dynamic full motion marketing deliverables such as performance videos, social media animations, video mashups, and product how-tos. This is a hands-on, highly collaborative role accountable for creative concepting, pre-visualization, and animation working directly with design, copy, and marketing partners.

This role requires a blend of creative thinking, technical proficiency, and a keen understanding of current digital content trends.

What You'll Do: 

• Lead the development and execution of video assets, including motion graphics, animations, and video content, that aligns with our brand identity and creative vision.
• Collaborate with creative and marketing teams to develop and implement engaging visual stories for advertising and marketing channels.
• Use a variety of loose footage and images and turn it into a compelling final asset
• Develop and enforce motion guidelines and standards ensuring brand consistency and excellence.
• Proactively research and implement emerging industry trends and technologies, pushing the boundaries of animation techniques and storytelling methodologies.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring both creative excellence and on-time delivery under tight deadlines.
• Ensure all motion and video content meets the highest creative and technical standards, flawlessly embodying the brand’s voice and strategic objectives.
• Be a contributing member of the creative team, offering and executing ideas to incorporate video and motion graphics into more aspects of the brand
• Source music for videos – stock and/or composed
• Point-of-contact for video freelancers and production teams 
• Attend video shoots as creative team representative

What You Have: 

• 5+ years of experience in motion design, animation, or video production
• Exceptional portfolio showcasing mastery in motion graphics, advanced animation techniques, video editing, and strategic visual storytelling.
• Demonstrated experience with social platforms and an understanding of trends and best practices
• Expert proficiency in Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Figma
• A keen eye for design, typography, color, and composition with the ability to work within established brand guidelines
• Creative thinker with a strong attention to detail
• Excellent musicality and an understanding of the importance of sound and rhythm to a brand’s identity
• Ability to multitask and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Stellar interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal
• Ability and willingness to listen and learn from feedback
• Self-starter, ability to manage uncertainty and enjoys solving problems

The national cash compensation range for this role is $82,000 - $118,000 per year*

*Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance).

Please have fun with the Cover Letter portion of the application! It does not need to follow “traditional” cover letter guidelines - we would love for you to write 150-500 words explaining why you are interested in ezCater and the role, and highlighting anything else you think we should know!

ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.

What You’ll Get from Us:

You’ll get a terrifically compelling experience in an innovative, high performing environment. You’ll get to work with engaged and passionate colleagues on challenging and impactful projects. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, and work in a  place that values work/life harmony. 

Oh, and you’ll get all this: Market competitive salary, stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot, 12 paid holidays, flexible PTO, 401K with ezCater match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, mental health and family planning resources, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office, a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, Relish (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office, and knowing that you helped transform the food for work space.

ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even brilliant ones. Following a conditional offer of employment, ezCater may require a background check.

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