Principal Animation and Motion Designer

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Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals,  has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools,  not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.

Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.

We’re hiring a Principal Animation & Motion Designer to define how our brand moves—emotionally, strategically, and systemically—across every touchpoint. This is a craft-forward leadership role for someone who blends conceptual vision with deep technical mastery and a passion for mentoring others.

Reporting to the Creative Director, Design, you’ll be the senior-most motion leader in the company—with dotted-line influence across brand, product, and performance marketing. From national campaigns to micro-interactions, you’ll lead the charge in building scalable motion systems and high-impact creative that resonate with millions.

Why now?

is entering its boldest creative era yet—with new leadership, a new Austin HQ, and a clear mission: help people feel confident in one of life’s biggest decisions.

We’ve launched a national brand campaign featuring Reba McEntire. We’ve rebuilt our team with talent from Tesla, YETI, Yelp and USAA. And we’re partnering with GSD&M to push the work further, faster. Now we’re ready to take motion to the next level. This role is pivotal in driving that evolution.

This role supports both B2C and B2B storytelling—powering consumer campaigns seen by millions, and creating high-impact content for the largest real estate industry events in the country. From product launches to partner activations, you’ll help us show up with confidence and craft in front of the top agents, brokers, and builders in the U.S.

What You’ll Do:

Lead with vision:

• Set the creative vision and strategic direction for how motion comes to life across brand, product, and marketing.
• Establish scalable, emotionally intelligent motion systems that enhance both brand storytelling, user experience and client engagement.
• Serve as the single point of accountability for motion design, establishing and evolving our brand motion guidelines and best practices.
• Create broadcast-quality video outputs for campaigns that reach national audiences, including primetime TV placements.

Drive business impact:

• Lead high-visibility brand and product launches with motion storytelling that sparks emotion and drives conversion.
• Collaborate closely with product management, product design and product marketing teams to embed motion into the heart of our user experience and ecosystem and establish scalable toolkits and training resources to up level motion literacy across the org.
• Influence the creative direction at the highest levels—partnering with executive stakeholders and external agencies to align motion strategy with business goals.

Innovate and elevate:

• Introduce and champion new tools, formats, and storytelling techniques—including Lottie, 3D, and generative AI
  —to keep us on the leading edge.
• Elevate the craft of motion across the team by coaching, mentoring, and modeling excellence, helping designers think in motion and tell more dynamic stories.
• Represent motion in leadership forums and cross-functional conversations, shaping the future of creative expression at  .
• Shape how we evaluate, hire, and develop top-tier motion talent as the brand grows.

How We Work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer…