Group Manager - Motion Graphics & Editorial

Group Manager and Lead - Motion Graphics & Editorial

We’re looking for a highly skilled and very energetic candidate to come help us evolve & expand our internal Motion Graphics & Editorial team. This role sits within the Adobe Global Marketing Organization in the Video Production COE, and will lead and manage our in-house motion and editorial team. Initial focus is on building the team producing video content at velocity for lower to mid-funnel & rapid-response work, including short-form videos (usually :06 - :59) for product & feature releases, PR & Comms, advertising, paid and organic social, and more across a wide array of channels and specs.

But this role will help evolve and lead our greater motion and editorial team as well.

This is an important new role in a dynamic dept. The ideal candidate will:

• Be ready and able to build and manage teams and build & evolve team infrastructure, workflows, pipelines, and assets, and systems.
• Be very experienced in fast-turn motion and animation workflows, tools, methods, and storytelling, and working in a fast-paced, complex, deadline driven environment.
• Be AI fluent and passionate about finding ways to automate and optimize motion animation workflows and tasks towards efficiency.

Requirements:

• Deep experience (10 years +) in traditional motion graphics and animation work at agencies, post‑houses, and/or brands.
• State of the art motion tool ability & comprehension. Adobe After Effects & Premiere Pro skills essential, as well as Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, and other industry standard motion, editorial, design, and 3D tools & workflows.
• Strong proficiency in frame.io and general DAM / MAM & archiving systems.
• AI experience & fluency. Knowledgeable on AI and automation tools in the post, motion, animation, and social space.
• Can efficiently build & manage templates, asset libraries, systems and processes.
• Understanding of and experience making effective work across all channels, specs, and sizes.
• Excellent shortform, advertising, and social storytelling skills.
• Experienced animating vector product UI with precision.
• Strong design background, and attention to detail, including typography & type animation expertise.
• Strong people manager.
• Great communication skills.
• Strong multi-tasking and prioritization in deadline driven environment.

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