Senior Motion Graphics Designer
Remote · 5+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 6, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
About Playq
- PlayQ is a rapidly growing entertainment and technology company that recognizes quality is king as we deliver unforgettable mobile game experiences to a global audience. Our games engage millions of users daily, surprising them with creativity, beauty and fun!
- Our portfolio includes hit titles like Treasure Party, which combines match-3 puzzle gameplay with a board game adventure for a vibrant treasure-hunting experience, and Sort Wizard, a fresh take on sorting puzzle mechanics that challenges and delights players. Both games are quickly building strong followings in their genres, offering fun, rewarding journeys for puzzle lovers and adventurers alike.
- Our team is driven, playful and deeply committed to excellence and innovation. We work together to craft clever, visually stunning, and memorable experiences. PlayQ's environment values initiative, collaboration, and individual leadership to ensure that our mission is fulfilled.
About the role
- The Senior Motion Graphics Designer role offers the opportunity to directly shape PlayQ’s growth through high-quality, performance driven user acquisition creative.
- This is a hands-on individual contributor role focused on creating motion graphics, editorial content, gameplay driven ads, and high volume creative iterations for paid media campaigns.
Responsibilities
- Design and animate high-quality motion graphics for user acquisition, social, and digital marketing campaigns using typography, transitions, visual effects, gameplay assets, UI, and graphic design to create visually compelling advertising creatives.
- Edit gameplay capture, promotional footage, AI-generated content, voiceover, music, and sound effects into engaging short-form video ads that effectively communicate gameplay, features, rewards, and player motivations.
- Apply strong editorial principles including pacing, timing, rhythm, and visual storytelling to create compelling narratives, impactful opening hooks, and high-performing marketing creatives.
- Produce both net-new creative concepts and high-volume iterations of existing ads, developing structured variations that test hooks, messaging, gameplay moments, pacing, visual treatments, ensuring that all creative decisions improve campaign performance.
- Create performance-driven video ads for major paid media platforms including Meta, Google, TikTok, YouTube, AppLovin, Moloco, and other digital advertising channels, leveraging user acquisition best practices and platform-specific requirements.
- Build organized, modular After Effects projects and reusable creative templates that enable rapid iteration, efficient production workflows, and consistent creative quality across campaigns.
- Adapt marketing assets into polished deliverables across multiple aspect ratios, formats, and advertising placements while maintaining visual consistency and production excellence.
- Maintain well-structured project files, naming conventions, source assets, and deliverables to support scalable creative production and effective cross-functional collaboration.
- Leverage modern AI tools to accelerate ideation, content generation, editing, iteration, and creative adaptation while applying strong creative judgment to ensure quality, consistency, and brand alignment.
- Stay current on mobile advertising trends, emerging creative technologies, social media formats, competitor creatives, and evolving user acquisition best practices to continuously improve creative effectiveness.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in motion graphics, video editing, digital advertising, or performance marketing creative, with experience producing user acquisition creatives for mobile games.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in motion design, editorial storytelling, gameplay advertising, and short-form video production that showcases measurable creative quality and performance.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe After Effects, strong proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop, and working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, with the ability to execute polished motion graphics and video editing workflows.
- Deep understanding of animation principles, typography, composition, visual hierarchy, compositing, pacing, rhythm, storytelling, music editing, sound design, and audio synchronization as applied to performance marketing.
- Proven ability to combine gameplay footage, UI elements, typography, visual effects, sound, and graphic design into engaging, performance-focused short-form advertising creatives.
- Experience creating both original concepts and high-volume creative iterations, with a strong understanding of user acquisition testing methodologies, hook strategies, performance marketing workflows, and creative optimization.
- Experience building organized, modular project files and reusable templates that support efficient production, rapid creative iteration, and scalable content development.
- Familiarity with paid media platforms including Meta, Google, TikTok, YouTube, AppLovin, Moloco, and other digital advertising ecosystems, along with an understanding of performance metrics such as CTR, CPI, ROAS, conversion, retention, and hook performance.
- Experience integrating AI tools into modern creative production workflows, including platforms such as Adobe Firefly, Photoshop AI, ChatGPT, Claude, and other emerging AI technologies to enhance ideation, editing, production, and creative adaptation while maintaining high creative standards.
- Excellent communication, organization, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to independently own creative projects from concept through final delivery.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience creating user acquisition creative for match-3, puzzle, casual, or hybrid casual mobile games, with a strong understanding of mobile gaming audiences and advertising strategies.
- Experience producing App Store screenshots, promotional graphics, App Store Optimization (ASO) assets, or other marketing collateral supporting mobile game launches and growth.
- Familiarity with Unity or other gameplay capture tools, Cinema 4D, Blender, or other 3D software for asset preparation and compositing support, as well as motion graphics plugins such as Trapcode, Saber, Element 3D, or similar technologies.
- Experience using generative AI platforms such as Runway, Midjourney, and other advanced creative tools to support content production and innovation.
- Experience working directly with User Acquisition teams and applying campaign performance insights, creative testing results, and user behavior data to continuously improve future creative development.
Benefits
- Remote Work Environment
- Company-provided AI tools and paid subscriptions
- Flexible time off
Skills
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Unity
- Cinema 4D
- Blender
- Trapcode
- Saber
- Element 3D
- Adobe Firefly
- Photoshop AI
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- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Runway
