Motion Designer
Bellevue · New York · USD 84,000-115,000 / year · 3+ years experience · Posted Oct 15, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Location
- Bellevue · New York
- Salary
- USD 84,000-115,000 / year · Base salary
About the role
- As a Motion Designer, you will occupy a unique and influential intersection on our team: balancing the rigor of our central motion design system with the versatility to concept and craft bespoke, show-stopping motion for our most critical brand moments.
- We are looking for a nimble, craft-obsessed motion designer who moves fluidly between two complementary mindsets: The Systems Architect and The Bespoke Maker.
Responsibilities
- Balance Systems & Bespoke Craft: Seamlessly oscillate between scaling our central motion design system and rolling up your sleeves to execute custom, high-visibility animation across campaigns, events, digital, and video.
- Architect & Maintain Central Motion Systems: Champion Okta's motion guidelines and infrastructure. Design, document, and maintain modular After Effects project templates, Essential Graphics (MOGRTs), and reusable motion libraries that make on-brand motion accessible to internal collaborators and external agency partners.
- Deliver High-Impact Event Experiences: Concept and execute bespoke motion packages for owned flagship events (Oktane) and major industry activations (AWS re:Invent, RSAC, NRF, etc.). Craft immersive keynote walk-in loops, speaker intros, and environmental stage graphics tailored to custom LED dimensions and experiential spaces.
- Craft Standout Brand & Campaign Motion: Partner with our Senior Motion Designer and Creative Leads to translate high-level campaign briefs into expressive motion graphics, kinetic typography, and animated concepts that elevate product launches, brand announcements, and company milestones.
- Drive Dynamic Social & Digital Storytelling: Bring fresh energy, pacing, and visual wit to social channels (LinkedIn, YouTube, X) and digital touchpoints, translating complex enterprise security and AI narratives into captivating, scroll-stopping visual content.
- Elevate Video & Branded Content: Collaborate with video editors and producers on title sequences, kinetic type treatments, UI animations, and motion graphic overlays for customer case studies, product sizzles, and brand films.
- Push the Boundaries of Brand Motion: Experiment and explore new kinetic expressions for the Okta visual identity, testing how our visual language, iconography, and graphic elements behave dynamically across 2D and 3D spaces.
- End-to-End Production & Optimization: Own motion assets from initial styleframes and storyboarding through final animation, audio sync, rendering, compression, and delivery across broadcast, web, social, and non-standard event display formats.
Requirements
- Experience: 3+ years of dedicated motion design experience in-house at a fast-paced tech company, creative branding agency, or motion studio, demonstrating equal strength in system building and bespoke creative execution.
- Dual-Track Creative Mindset: Demonstrated ability to balance disciplined, organized systems thinking (templates, toolkits, brand consistency) with the agility and creative fire needed to craft inventive, one-of-a-kind motion moments.
- Tool & Craft Mastery (Required): Expert-level proficiency in Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, and the core Adobe Creative Cloud suite (Illustrator, Photoshop). Sound, intuitive command of motion fundamentals: kinetic typography, spatial staging, easing curves, rhythm, and visual hierarchy.
- Motion Systems & Templating Fluency: Hands-on experience developing modular After Effects templates, Essential Graphics/MOGRTs, and standardized project setups that enable team-wide scalability.
- Versatile, Impact-Driven Portfolio: A standout reel and portfolio showcasing a balanced breadth of work from large-scale event stage animations and campaign hero pieces to social content and structured motion toolkits.
- Technical Fluency: Solid command of digital video formats, aspect ratios, framerates, codecs, and render optimization across mobile, desktop, and large-format physical screen arrays.
- Collaborative & Agile Attitude: Excellent communication and presentation skills, with comfort advocating for motion rationale, adapting to feedback, and thriving in an iterative, fast-moving creative environment.
Preferred qualifications
- 3D Motion Capability: Working knowledge of 3D motion design and rendering tools (Cinema 4D, Blender, Redshift, Octane).
- Expression Scripting: Familiarity with writing After Effects expressions to build smarter, automated, dynamic MOGRTs and templates.
- Experiential & Stage Tech: Practical experience creating motion graphics for custom LED resolutions, spatial light mapping, or experiential digital signage.
- Multi-Brand & Localization: Experience managing motion assets across multi-brand ecosystems or localizing toolkits for global marketing teams.
Benefits
- health, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- flexible spending account
- paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)
- equity (where applicable)
- bonus
Skills
- Adobe After Effects
- Premiere Pro
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Illustrator
- Photoshop
- Cinema 4D
- Blender
- Redshift
- Octane
