Motion Design Fellow, Insider Inc.
Summer 2025
Fellows are paid $20 per hour
Online news platform
Be an early applicant
Online news platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Fellows are paid $20 per hour
1001+ employees
Company mission
To inform and inspire the digital generation and become the most influential and loved journalism brand in the world.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate should have knowledge of After Effects and a passion for animation
- A passion for visual storytelling through animations
- Experience shooting with Canon, Panasonic, and Sony cameras is a plus
- Experience with video editing in Adobe Premiere is a plus
- A passion for digital storytelling and voracious reading habits
- Familiarity with digital and social media
- The ability to work quickly and collaboratively with a fast-paced team
- A love of Business Insider and our mission to serve readers with the information and inspiration they need in a way that’s accurate, fair, fast, and fun
- Possess strong skills in Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, Premiere, Photoshop, and After Effects. Proficiency in Premiere, Illustrator, and other Adobe software is a plus
What the job involves
- Business Insider is hiring a motion design fellow to join our news team and work on stories and animations for Risky Business and other shows across the team
- The Business Insider Fellowship Program is for early career journalists who want to spend six months learning from a newsroom full of passionate, dedicated journalists
- Fellows are assigned to teams and become experts in digital storytelling
- They produce real work that is distributed to our audience of millions, and by the end of six months, they are prepared for the next phase of their journalism careers
- This paid role requires you to work for 40 hours a week
- Fellowships can be hybrid, and we expect New York-based fellows to come into our offices at least twice per week
- The fellow in this role will spend their time creating original and creative animations for various series, including Risky Business and Big Business
- They will work closely with videographers and producers to create videos for a wide audience across the web and various social media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Reels
- Quickly execute visually engaging animations for our documentaries, which will be shared across platforms
- This role reports directly to the Senior Motion Designer and sits on the larger video team
- Concept, storyboard, and iterate on graphics based on feedback from teammates
- Collaborate with the larger news team on pre-production, production, and post-production workflows
- 40 hours a week over a 6 month period
Application process
- Please apply with a resume and cover letter and specify why you're interested in working on this team
Our take
Insider - that entered the market at roughly the same time as fellow digital news and media names Buzzfeed, Vice, and HuffPost - has steadily and solidly built itself into one of the most familiar digital platforms for business, current affairs, finance and tech news.
Insider was founded by well-known trader and entrepreneur Henry Blodge. The company was sold to German giant Axel Springer in 2015, which signalled an uptick in its performance. This undoubtedly helped it to weather the storm of the pandemic, which hit advertisers hard, and saw many platforms like Insider's lose out on their major revenue stream.
Setting itself apart from the likes of Buzzfeed by staying focused on journalism, rather than moving sideways into entertainment, Insider's disciplined approach has paid off, and its subscriber numbers continue to steadily rise. Having established itself in the digital news space, at a time when more and more consumers are reading articles online, it can be assumed it will find further success in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2015
$25m
SERIES F
Mar 2014
$12m
SERIES E
Total funding: $55.6m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Unlimited vacation
- Generous family leave policy
- 401k with match
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Henry Blodget
(Chair & Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Managing Director and Senior Analyst at Merill Lynch. Was CEO of Cherry Hill Research.
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