Art Director, WeWork

• 8+ years in motion design and video, including ideas that were yours
• A reel of strong work you carried from idea to finish. Link and password, please
• Deep After Effects and Premiere. Strong Photoshop, Illustrator, and Figma
• You understand design fundamentals like type, composition, color, and pacing. Your work looks designed, not just animated
• Self directed. You take a brief and come back with options
• Comfortable presenting and explaining your work
• Can shoot your own footage and cut it well

Desirable

• We are looking for an Art Director, Motion to work directly with our Global Creative Director, who leads the brand vision and creative direction
• You'll take that vision and bring it to life through motion design. This is a hands-on role within a team that is always crafting something new. If you want to spend most of your week in After Effects and the rest of it shaping ideas worth animating, come talk to us
• From Brief to Final Frame
• Working from the creative direction set by the Global Creative Director
• Run your projects from brief to finished video
• Craft concepts, storyboards, and style frames from the Creative Director's vision
• Bring your own ideas to your projects and to team brainstorms
• Present your work to the team and marketing partners
• Animation, Edit, and Finish
• This is where most of your week goes
• Craft every frame, from first sketch to final cut
• 2D animation, motion graphics, titles, and design led video for social, paid, web, sales, and events
• Edit footage: pacing, color, sound, music, and versions for every format
• Shoot your own idea when a project calls for it
• Guide external partners so their animation meets our standards
• Work with Ops on timing and flag risk early
• Help build our motion guidelines with the Creative Director: timing, transitions, type, and sound
• Craft After Effects and other motion toolkits so the team can version work without starting from zero
• Keep clear standards for files, aspect ratios, captions, accessibility, and licensing
• How You Work:
• Spot the opportunity, bring the idea, and move before you are asked
• Share new skills and learnings with the team, and help lift our animation and video work
• Run creative tests with Performance Marketing, and let the results sharpen the next round
• Understand the AI tools that unlock speed, without dropping the craft bar