Sr. Motion Designer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Sr. Motion Designer based in Netherlands.

This role sits within a high-ownership creative team shaping how a global technology brand moves across digital experiences and campaigns.

You will create motion across product, web, social, events, and marketing while helping establish a distinctive visual motion language.

The position combines hands‑on craft with systems thinking, giving you the opportunity to make future motion work faster and more scalable.

You will collaborate closely with brand designers, product teams, marketing, social, web, and external creative partners.

A key part of the role is translating UI frames and creative briefs into polished stories, animations, and engaging product experiences.

You will also explore emerging tools, including AI-powered workflows, to expand creative possibilities and enable others to produce high-quality motion independently.

This is an ideal opportunity for a senior designer who thrives in ambiguity, moves quickly, and brings both creative vision and strong execution.

Accountabilities
Design and produce high-quality motion work across product explainers, website animations, paid social content, keynote and event experiences, campaign assets, and other brand touchpoints.
Transform UI frames and product concepts into polished product demonstrations and feature explainers, ensuring that animation clearly communicates functionality, value, and user experience.
Develop straightforward storyboards independently when appropriate, enabling projects to move efficiently from concept to production without unnecessary handoffs.
Help define and evolve a distinctive motion design language by creating branded patterns, timing principles, transitions, and visual behaviors that establish consistency across digital surfaces.
Build reusable motion systems, including guidelines, component libraries, and mogrts files, enabling designers, social teams, and other partners to create high-quality work independently.
Explore and implement tools such as Jitter, Figma Motion, and emerging AI-powered video technologies to improve creative workflows and expand the team's capabilities.
Produce short-form video variations for paid social testing, adapting concepts across different formats, messages, and creative angles.
Develop recurring product video formats into scalable templates that can be reused efficiently across future product launches.
Collaborate closely with brand design, design operations, product marketing, product design, web, social, and external agencies to deliver cohesive creative work.
Bring motion expertise proactively into creative and stakeholder discussions, clearly explaining the strategic reasoning behind creative choices and helping partners understand the role of motion.
Contribute to a culture of experimentation and knowledge sharing by testing new creative technologies and sharing effective workflows and learnings with the wider team.

Requirements
Significant professional experience in motion design, ideally within brand, product, digital, marketing, or technology-focused creative environments, with a portfolio demonstrating strong motion craft and storytelling.
Strong ability to transform brand briefs, UI frames, and product concepts into compelling visual stories that communicate clearly and engage audiences.
Deep understanding of motion principles, including timing, easing, rhythm, pacing, transitions, and visual personality, with the ability to create work that feels distinctive rather than generic.
Strong understanding of brand and UI design, with the ability to balance expressive creative direction with functional product…