Head of Video & Motion Design

Please do not apply for this role if you are not physically located in Europe, Africa, the Middle East or East Coast Americas (UTC-5, UTC-1 to UTC+3). While this is a remote position, we can not consider candidates that are not based in these regions. You can find a detailed explanation in our Recruitment FAQs. 

Hotjar wants to make the web a better place. We’re focused on helping product teams really understand what their end-users are doing on their websites—to help them find those parts of their sites that are hard to navigate, confusing, or just plain broken. In short, we’re helping product teams create websites that their end-users love. We are a team of over 310 Hotjarians spread across 45+ countries—we're a fully distributed company and always have been. What better way to make sure that digital experiences improve than to work online ourselves?

Reporting to the Director of Brand, you will be responsible for developing and scaling Hotjar’s motion design and video creation efforts throughout the full marketing funnel, delivering true delight at every turn to our prospects and existing customers. Additionally, you will lead and nurture the careers of our three incredibly talented motion designers and further grow the team.

You are a design leader who blends creativity and a hunger for data, with experience in growing an expert team, excellent storytelling skills and a deep understanding of developing creative video, from TVC to webinars and Social Media campaigns. You are deeply passionate about growing people to their full potential and excel at working cross-functionally to build and execute design strategy. You are results-driven, a big-ideas person, and are able to construct and evolve a measurement framework to connect content to business results.

You will

• Lead the concepting and creation of new video campaigns that will dramatically increase our customer acquisition capabilities, whilst delivering delight and value to our target customers.

• Lead, guide, grow, and nurture our incredibly talented motion designers distributed in multiple squads in our funnel-based department structure.

• Bring joy to our team and our customers, elevate our game, and drive great, inspiring work.

• Be the customer—explore the questions and challenges that current and potential customers are facing, so we know how to answer them.

• Prioritize brilliantly—be bold and move fast, be radically candid and prioritize our biggest growth opportunities.

• Be part of our Marketing Leadership team, working with fellow cross-functional leaders and Exec team to develop, inspire and drive our strategy, brand narratives, and joint OKRs.

Job requirements

• A minimum of 7 years in video & motion and at least 2 years in a leadership role managing a team of 4 or more.

• Hands-on experience in concepting, testing and executing video creatives tied to clear goals and ROIs.

• Experience in managing agencies.

• Data-driven and have proven ability to make video strategy decisions through the use of data, testing and research.

• Please include your portfolio.

• Desire to work in a respectful, transparent, and collaborative work environment, following Hotjar’s company values, culture and ways of working.

• Must submit to a background check confidentially processed by our third-party.

Compensation range

The compensation range for a team member in this role is €80,000 to €105,000 annually where the offer typically falls in the range of €85,000 to €90,000.

Our ranges are established after performing market research but the specific compensation amount of the offer will be determined based on relative experience, skills, and equity across the team. We encourage all candidates to read our Recruitment FAQs to further understand our approach to compensation and how we structure our contracts.

In addition to the monetary compensation, we provide all team members with an assortment of unique and popular perks valued at more than €10,000 a year, plus stock options and 40 days of annual leave. These have been chosen to reflect our values and ideals, be it encouraging constant learning with our Personal Development Budget, a great work/life balance with the Holiday Budget, or a happy, healthy team with our Wellbeing Budget.

Here at Hotjar, we welcome team members of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. Working with respect is built into our core values: we are honest, tolerant, and inclusive. We celebrate the uniqueness and strength found in diversity. We all commit to creating a safe working environment and are allies to those less privileged. And we fully believe that living by these values helps us to make our company, and our product, better.