Motion Designer

Instrument is a remote-first digital product and brand experience agency with over 200 talented people across four teams, each focused on a core offering and dedicated to producing best-in-class work. Our shift to a fully remote model has amplified our ability to foster creativity, build strong relationships, and engage with clients in dynamic ways. This flexibility has not only strengthened our company culture but also enabled us to embrace diverse perspectives. We remain deeply committed to career advancement, personal support, and ensuring a healthy work-life balance for everyone we hire.

Instrument partners with the world’s most ambitious companies to create transformational change through best-in-class digital products and communications. From day one, we’ve been committed to making this a place where people can make the best work of their career — sustainably. 

Designers at Instrument work on focused teams, together with strategists, writers, producers, and developers. Collaboration is more than a buzzword here; you’ll be working closely with colleagues and clients that have diverse perspectives and expertise. Every designer here is multi-disciplinary and contributes seamlessly across form and function.

We’re looking for a designer whose creativity manifests in motion graphics, moving imagery, and bringing experiences to life across screens of all types. You understand how objects moving through space and time can communicate as much as the forms of the objects, themselves. You’re always pushing to make the best work, whether it’s bringing an interface to life, telling a complex story, or creating the perfect transition. You love the art of storytelling, but also just love to animate. You’re not scared to try out new technologies and visual approaches.

What You'll Do

• Work with a team to create a large variety of content and interactive experiences, from UI animations, to storyboards, to motion graphics, to 3D

• Move from working with others on large-scale projects to owning your own, stand-alone projects from concept to completion

• Think strategically and apply your skills to proactive problem-solving in a collaborative team environment

• Have a strong POV on the art direction of motion and how it manifests within the holistic project creative

• Collaborate closely with design and development partners to create, generate and translate motion across all screens

• Be an industry expert, live and breath motion design and digital culture

• Be nimble and flexible to manage multiple projects at the same time as well as an asset in other agency needs, studio-wide

• Do great work and be great to work with

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience working as a Motion Designer, Animator, or related 

• Outstanding portfolio showing a variety of work with your role clearly defined for each project

• Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc), and Cinema 4D, as well as interactive design tools such as Sketch and Figma

• Elastic transitions from Sketch/Figma to motion tools

• Efficient workflows 

• Consistency in organizing files for collaboration

• A predisposition toward curiosity and a fearless approach to problem-solving

• The ability to work and self-direct in a fluid, collaborative environment

• A willingness to sharing your process and work-in-progress with the team

• Experience working on cross-discipline teams

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills

• Confidence and humility, and an understanding of when/how to apply each

Pay Range

The expected pay range for this position is $70,000-$85,000 for our base US Region 3*. We have three regional pay ranges that are adjusted for cost of living (US1 +15%, US2 +7.5%, US3 Base), learn more about our pay philosophy and cost of living adjustments

What We Offer

Flexible, Hybrid Work Environment

Great Compensation with Annual Reviews (Learn more about our Pay Philosophy)

Annual Profit Sharing

401(k) Matching with Immediate Vesting

Robust Medical, Vision, and Accident Insurance

Generous Paid Holidays and unlimited PTO

Sabbaticals

Monthly Wellbeing Stipend

Career Management and Leadership Training