Senior Motion Designer (Marketing)

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Motion Designer with strong video editing experience to bring our marketing campaigns to life through compelling motion and video. You’ll play a key role in shaping how our brand shows up across paid media, social, web, and launch moments—turning strategy and insights into high-performing creative.

This role is ideal for someone who blends strong visual craft with a marketing mindset: you care about storytelling, but you also understand audiences, channels, and performance.

What You’ll Do

• Create motion design and video assets for marketing campaigns across paid, social, web, email, and product launches
  
  
• Lead video projects end-to-end: concepting, storyboarding, animation, editing, and final delivery
  
  
• Partner closely with marketing, brand, and growth teams to translate briefs, messaging, and strategy into engaging motion
  
  
• Design and adapt videos for multiple channels and formats (short-form, long-form, vertical, horizontal)
  
  
• Optimize creative for performance while maintaining brand consistency and quality
  
  
• Develop reusable motion templates and systems to scale campaign production
  
  
• Manage multiple projects and timelines while maintaining a high creative bar
  
  
• Mentor junior designers and provide creative feedback across the team
  
  
• Contribute ideas to campaign concepts, creative testing, and iteration cycles
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• 6+ years of experience in motion design and video editing, ideally in a marketing or brand environment
  
  
• Portfolio showcasing campaign-driven motion work and polished video storytelling
  
  
• Expert-level skills in:
  
  
• After Effects
  
  
• Premiere Pro or similar video editing tools
  
  
• Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma (or equivalents)
  
  
• Strong understanding of marketing fundamentals: audiences, messaging, platforms, and KPIs
  
  
• Experience creating assets for paid media and social platforms (Meta, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, etc.)
  
  
• Excellent sense of pacing, rhythm, and visual hierarchy in motion
  
  
• Ability to work from creative briefs and iterate based on feedback and performance data
  
  
• Clear communication and strong cross-functional collaboration skills
  
  

Nice to Have

• Experience working on performance-driven or growth marketing campaigns
  
  
• Knowledge of AI tools
  
  
• Familiarity with A/B testing, creative optimization, and content localization
  
  
• Basic sound design, music selection, or color grading experience
  
  
• Experience working in a fast-paced or scaling marketing organization
  
  

Why This Role Matters

• Your work will directly impact campaign performance, brand awareness, and growth
  
  
• You’ll help define how motion and video scale across our marketing ecosystem
  
  
• You’ll collaborate with marketers, strategists, and creatives from concept to launch
  
  
• You’ll have room to influence creative direction while staying hands-on

About Smartly

Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers.

Smartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of it.

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