Senior Video/Motion Designer, Datasite
SaaS provider for the M&A industry
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SaaS provider for the M&A industry
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower the dealmaking community to work smarter and faster.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a creative with keen video editing + motion graphics skills who effectively influences and is willing to get involved in concept work as well as the day-to-day business of thumb-stopping video and animation production
- Required: Submit with your application a portfolio and show reel that crackles with excitement (video/animation) in any and all media
- Required: 5+ years of professional creative/design experience (including video editing and/or animation)
- Required: Mastery of Adobe CC programs (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere/After Effects/Animate)
- Preferred: A creative agency background, used to the rough and tumble of creative ideation
- Keen interest in staying current on creative trends, new tools, formats, and platform standards and innovating the creative approach
- Curiosity about generative and automation-assisted design tools to improve creative workflows and outputs
- Ability to manage creative projects from conception through implementation
- The strength to stand up for your ideas and the humility to accept criticism – and an excellent ability to navigate between the two
- The all-important capability to listen – not just to what’s said, but to really understand what is meant and to have the strength to ask questions
- Ability to integrate feedback from various internal and external stakeholders and transform that into beautiful end products
- Exceptional skill in maintaining ownership over several projects at once
- Ability to meet tight turnarounds and thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to positively interact with external and internal stakeholders at all levels
What the job involves
- The senior video/motion designer role here is set to make a big difference in how we communicate. You don’t need to be told how powerful motion graphics and video are in delivering a potent payload
- You’ll be contributing to a truly disruptive brand in a me-too market. Differentiating using your talent and expertise
- Design and animate on-brand content across a variety of formats – campaign videos, product animations, social videos, internal reels, and digital experiences
- Bring our digital products to life with animated and or video work that sets us apart and becomes the standard others aspire to
- Develop storyboards, styleframes, and animatics that clearly communicate animation intent and bring creative concepts to life
- Cooperate in the creation and development of creative solutions to some tricky and abstract propositions, providing creative input and animation expertise throughout all phases of production
- Edit video to make the ordinary interesting and the interesting compelling
- Be the go-to knowledge expert for all things moving and great ideas
- Establish and upholding guidelines around our video and animation content
- Create an animation style that fits with our brand visual identity
- Support internal requests for employee communications, events, global town halls and initiatives
- Control video assets via our DAM, giving people access to what they need and curating content
Salary benchmarks
Our take
As M&A deals continue to increase in both size and frequency, key stakeholders have been actively seeking tools to streamline their work. Datasite emerges as a solution. Having transitioned from its original focus on communications, the company now offers a suite of SaaS products tailored for M&A professionals, serving approximately 75% of the leading legal firms in the field.
Benefiting from its extensive experience in the industry, Datasite has successfully transformed into a more contemporary business entity. It has recently introduced highly acclaimed AI-powered technology to assist in deal preparation, asset marketing, and facilitating buy-side acquisitions.
With significant global expansion and strategic acquisitions, Datasite remains committed to enhancing its platform capabilities. Notably, in March 2023, it unveiled Datasite Cloud, specifically designed to streamline every aspect of the dealmaking process within a unified platform.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Culture and benefits built around work-life balance
- Extensive resources to support physical and mental health
- Employee assistance program
- Generous retirement plans
- Incentives for referring new colleagues
- Learning, training and mentoring programs
- Cross-functional projects
- Stretch assignments to help you progress
- Receive feedback and earn bonuses from peers & managers
- Employee bonding activities
- ESG and charitable team initiatives
Company HQ
Downtown West, Minneapolis, MN
Leadership
Rusty Wiley
(President & CEO, not founder)Before joining Datasite, Rusty held various executive roles at IBM Corporation, most recently, as General Manager, Banking & Financial Markets. Upon joining Datasite in 2014, Rusty led the successful transformation from a communications and print-related business into a global M&A SaaS technology company.
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