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Motion Design Technologist

Canada; United States

StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.

Engineering at StackAdapt
As an engineer at StackAdapt, you’ll build production-level software that directly impacts our advertising platform. You’ll work with modern stacks across Go, Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, and more. Our engineering org is collaborative, cross-functional, and built around clear growth paths.

About the team
You’ll join the Creatives Platform group—an engineering team responsible for the systems and tooling that power self-serve creative creation and our in-house creative template library.

About the role
We’re hiring a design-led technologist to be a dedicated creative template partner embedded with engineering. The focus is to:
Collect Feedback and design new creative  templates across channels, especially motion-heavy formats (Video/DCO)
Bridge engineering, product, and client-facing teams by identifying creative library gaps and translating them into scalable platform capabilities
This role is intentionally design + motion forward, with enough technical comfort to produce and iterate on templates directly.

What You'll Be Doing:

  • Design and produce programmatic templates using client assets and/or original concepts, spanning static, animated, and interactive formats.
  • Create motion-forward template systems (animation patterns, transitions, reusable motion components) using tools like After Effects / Animate / Google Web Designer (or similar).
  • Build and maintain interactive HTML5 templates that work across devices and platforms; troubleshoot layout/behavior issues using HTML5/CSS (and light JavaScript when needed).
  • Partner with Engineering / Creative Studio / Product to understand what customers struggle to create, then translate insights into:
    • New template concepts and reusable patterns for our in-house creative library
    • Platform/library capability gaps for engineer and designer to build together (e.g., missing building blocks, controls, animation features, workflows)
  • Develop ads creative best practices across channels and industries, and work with the team to apply vertical-specific creative strategies and patterns to inform template design.
  • Participate in select customer/CS discussions to validate requirements and ensure templates solve real problems.
  • Own quality checks (visual polish, specs compliance, responsiveness, accessibility considerations where applicable, and functional testing).
  • Improve template workflows through standards (naming, structure, components), documentation, and experimentation with better tooling—including AI-assisted workflows where helpful.

What You'll Bring to the Table

  • 5+ years of experience as a motion/visual designer (or equivalent portfolio-based experience).
  • A portfolio showing strong digital advertising craft across display / social / web (motion work required; interactive is a plus).
  • Intermediate+ motion/animation skills and strong visual design fundamentals (composition, typography, pacing, brand sensibility).
  • Practical experience with HTML5 + CSS, including debugging/troubleshooting interactive creatives.
  • Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, especially After Effects; familiarity with Google Web Designer / Animate is a plus.
  • Strong collaboration skills: you can translate ambiguous needs into clear template requirements and work effectively with engineers.

Nice to have: 

  • Experience optimizing creative assets for mobile/video environments; familiarity with DOOH and/or native formats.
  • Experience with DCO / feed-driven creative or template frameworks.
  • Basic video/audio editing experience.
  • Hands-on experience applying AI tools (or a strong interest in doing so) to improve creative production workflows.
  • Familiarity with Figma, component libraries, or design systems for reusable creative building blocks.
 

StackAdapter's Enjoy:

  • Highly competitive salary
  • Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
  • Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
  • Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
  • Health benefits from day one of employment
  • Work from home reimbursements
  • Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
  • Robust training and onboarding program
  • Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
  • Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
  • An awesome parental leave program
  • A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
  • Our social and team events!

Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.

StackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability (or superpower) status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt. If you have any requests or requirements to support you throughout any part of the interview process, please let our Talent team know.
 
We use artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the resume reviews of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions.
 
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