Senior Motion Designer

About Northern Trust As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions. Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure:
Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide. With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role/Department:
Senior Motion Designer/Digital Marketing We're looking for a Senior Motion Designer to join our Creative team—a strategic visual storyteller with deep expertise in motion graphics, animation, visual effects, and scalable motion systems. This role will concept, design, animate, and deliver high-impact motion work across brand, campaign, social, digital, executive, and event channels while helping evolve how motion is created, governed, and scaled across the enterprise.

The Senior Motion Designer transforms strategy, scripts, briefs, and design direction into polished motion experiences that bring ideas to life with clarity, craft, and brand consistency. This role spans motion graphics, animation, visual effects, typography in motion, storyboarding, style frames, concept development, editing, sound, color, and post-production for campaign videos, social content, digital advertising, executive communications, event content, explainers, templates, and modular motion assets.

The ideal candidate can own complex motion assignments from concept through delivery, elevate the brand’s motion language, build reusable systems and templates, and support scalable production models, self-service tools, and AI-enabled creative workflows.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

Create Motion Graphics, Animation & Visual Effects
• Design and animate motion graphics, typography, titles, transitions, visual effects, data visualizations, iconography, end cards, and branded motion elements.
• Bring complex ideas, messages, and brand stories to life through clear, engaging motion concepts and polished animation.
• Create cutdowns, versions, aspect ratios, and platform-specific motion adaptations while maintaining brand consistency. Develop Storyboards, Style Frames & Motion Concepts
• Translate briefs, scripts, data points, and creative direction into storyboards, style frames, animatics, and finished motion solutions.
• Explore visual approaches that balance strategic clarity, brand expression, accessibility, and production efficiency.
• Partner with creative, strategy, marketing, and production teams to shape motion narratives from concept through final delivery. Build Motion Systems, Templates & Reusable Assets
• Create modular motion systems, templates, toolkits, project structures, and reusable assets that enable consistent, efficient content production.
• Prepare editable motion files, production-ready templates, and exports that support repeatable use across teams, channels, and campaigns.
• Maintain organized libraries, archives, masters, version history, and source files to support ongoing reuse and governance. Advance Motion Standards, Governance & Accessibility
• Apply enterprise visual identity, motion principles, and accessibility requirements with precision and consistency.
• Help define and evolve motion standards, governance guidance, templates, and best practices for scalable content creation.
• Ensure final work meets…