Senior Motion Designer

Join Zipline, a company dedicated to revolutionizing logistics and healthcare through drone technology. As a Senior Motion Designer, you will play a crucial role in shaping and sharing Zipline's story and impact. You will create engaging animations and motion graphics that bring Zipline's products, operations, and impact to life. This is a hands-on role that requires strong visual fundamentals, animation craft, and the ability to make complex technology clear and compelling.

You are a hands-on maker who enjoys moving from early frames and motion tests through polished final animation

You use motion to direct attention, explain how something works, and strengthen a story

About Zipline

You are passionate about Zipline’s mission, impact, and products

Responsibilities

• Design and animate motion graphics for various formats, including social and brand video, product launches, technical explainers, and presentations.
• Translate creative briefs, scripts, and technical concepts into storyboards, style frames, animatics, and polished motion work.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Communications, Brand, Social, Marketing, engineers, and operators, to ensure accurate representation of products and operations.
• Professional experience with Cinema 4D, Blender, or another 3D package, including animation, lighting, rendering, and compositing workflows
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain design choices, incorporate feedback, and work effectively with creative and technical partners
• Experience building reusable motion templates and maintaining organized, production-ready project files
• Experience with CAD-derived assets, product visualization, simulation, UI animation, data visualization, Lottie, Rive, Unreal Engine, or real-time workflows is a plus
• You collaborate well with producers, editors, designers, and technical subject-matter experts
• You respond constructively to feedback and can iterate while maintaining craft and consistency
• You care about organized files, reliable handoffs, and the production details that make creative work reusable

Requirements

• Experience integrating animation with live-action footage through compositing, tracking, masking, keying, and screen replacement
• Experience with robotics, autonomy, aviation, logistics, hardware, infrastructure, healthcare, or another technically complex field is a plus
• Ability to translate complex products, systems, data, and technical concepts into clear and engaging visual communication
• A strong reel and portfolio demonstrating motion craft, design judgment, visual storytelling, and range across 2D and 3D work, with your role identified for each project
• Expert proficiency in Adobe After Effects and strong working proficiency in Illustrator, Photoshop, and Figma
• 6+ years of professional motion design experience in an in-house creative team, agency, studio, production company, or similarly demanding environment
• Strong fundamentals in typography, composition, color, hierarchy, timing, easing, rhythm, pacing, and animation principles
• Experience developing storyboards, style frames, motion tests, and animatics that clearly communicate an approach before production
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple assignments, versions, and deadlines in a fast-moving production environment
• You are curious about complex technology and diligent about representing it accurately

Preferred

• Familiarity with emerging animation, compositing, and AI-assisted creative tools is a plus