What are the responsibilities and job description for the Motion Designer position at Uber?
About The Role
We're looking for a Motion Graphics & Animation Designer who brings strategic thinking, visual storytelling, and design innovation to every frame. You'll partner with marketing, creative, and production teams to deliver best-in-class animated content that inspires, informs, and drives results.
From animating dynamic brand campaigns to designing short-form content for social, CRM, and digital platforms, you'll breathe life into our messaging through typography, kinetic graphics, and compelling motion. You're fluent in industry-standard tools, have a deep understanding of brand expression through movement, and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
What You Will Do
We're looking for a Motion Graphics & Animation Designer who brings strategic thinking, visual storytelling, and design innovation to every frame. You'll partner with marketing, creative, and production teams to deliver best-in-class animated content that inspires, informs, and drives results.
From animating dynamic brand campaigns to designing short-form content for social, CRM, and digital platforms, you'll breathe life into our messaging through typography, kinetic graphics, and compelling motion. You're fluent in industry-standard tools, have a deep understanding of brand expression through movement, and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
What You Will Do
- Creative Storytelling: Translate ideas into impactful animated visuals that support marketing and brand goals
- Technical Expertise: Advanced skills in After Effects and complementary motion design tools, understanding of AI tools to creative efficiencies in workflow
- Executional Excellence: Deliver polished animations on time, within specs, and across varying formats
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Experience working with designers, editors, marketers, and producers
- Design and animate high-performing motion graphics for a variety of formats: social media, YouTube, paid media, CRM, internal campaigns, and more
- Translate creative briefs into thoughtful motion solutions that enhance storytelling and user engagement
- Collaborate closely with producers, designers, editors, and marketers to bring concepts to life from ideation to final render
- Ensure brand consistency across all animations and apply visual systems creatively
- Work within modern creative and production workflows using tools like After Effects, LucidLink, Frame.io, and Figma
- Manage multiple animation projects simultaneously while maintaining quality, organization, and delivery speed
- Maintain clean project files and adhere to version control, render presets, and naming conventions
- 4 years of experience in motion graphics and animation design for marketing, product, or branded content
- A strong portfolio showcasing motion design, storytelling, timing, transitions, and typographic animation
- Deep understanding of content formats, aspect ratios, and motion principles for social, digital, and paid media
- Experience working within brand systems and adapting global campaigns for multiple markets
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail across multiple deliverables
- Familiarity with localization workflows and international adaptations
- Strong communication and collaboration skills-you work well with cross-functional teams
- Ability to interpret creative direction, accept feedback, and iterate quickly
- Bonus: Basic knowledge of 3D motion graphics or VFX
- Adaptability: Able to shift priorities and execute multiple motion projects in a deadline-driven environment
- Adobe Creative Suite: After Effects (primary animation), Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro (basic editing), Audition
- Figma: For visual alignment and collaboration with brand and design teams
- LucidLink: For real-time cloud collaboration
- Frame.io: For feedback, annotation, and versioning
- Google Workspace: Docs, Sheets, and Drive for coordination and asset management
- Slack: Team communication and updates
- Bonus Tools: Cinema 4D or Blender (3D animation), DaVinci Resolve (color), iZotope RX (audio cleanup)
Salary : $130,000 - $144,000
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