Senior Motion Designer

Description

Sprout Social is looking to hire a Motion Designer to the Marketing team.

Why join Sprout’s Marketing team?

As a member of Sprout’s Marketing department, you’re an integral part of empowering and inspiring our customers and driving the growth of our business. As a true partner to Sales and Success, we are accountable to—and responsible for—driving significant revenue across new business acquisition and customer growth. Together, we make up our revenue organization where we lead our go-to-market strategy and establish our goals as one unified team. We put our customers at the center, we’re driven by results and passionate about our impact on the overall strength and health of Sprout. As individuals, there’s no shortage of opportunities to learn and grow in your current role and beyond. Here, we just really want you to do your best work, be creative, take risks and make mistakes. You create your own path. 

What you’ll do

• Bring motion to life across a variety of deliverables including video, presentation, UI, and web to support product, customer, content, and brand marketing initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with creative leads to concept, animate, and occasionally build storyboards from styleframes for video and motion content.
• Execute high-quality motion design that strengthens the brand, pushes creative boundaries, and meets strategic business goals across multiple channels.

What you’ll bring

We are seeking a Motion Designer with a deep technical skill set across editing, animation, motion graphics, and visual design. In this role, you will act as a creative partner to our Creative, Post-Production, and Art Leads—bringing forward strong ideation, execution support, and solutions across a wide range of motion deliverables spanning video, presentation, UI, and web.

The ideal candidate is an expert in their craft with formal visual design training and a strong foundation in typography, composition, and color theory; essential for crafting cohesive motion pieces that align with and elevate our brand standards. They are passionate about storytelling through motion, using movement to communicate brand personality, values, and narratives thoughtfully and dynamically.

This person won’t just apply existing brand guidelines, they will collaborate closely with the creative team to extend, evolve, and define how our brand moves and feels across dynamic environments. They thrive navigating ambiguity, are nimble in finding creative solutions, and have a bias toward action and high-quality execution. With a motion design portfolio that demonstrates both craft and strategic thinking, this candidate sees opportunity in every project and is passionate about positioning our work at the forefront of SaaS video and motion design.

The minimum qualifications for this role include:

• 5+ years experience in motion design and animation
• Motion design portfolio required
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma
• Proficiency in Canva motion programs and exporting for JSON/Lottie
• Strong product storytelling experience working within SaaS

Preferred qualifications for this role include:

• Strong aptitude for formal visual design with storyboard and design execution skills
• Proficiency or developing proficiency in 3D motion and design
• Expert in best practices for social video distribution channels
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously 

How you’ll grow

Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:

• Attend Sprout Social training to learn the ins and outs of the product and better understand the value that Sprout delivers to our customers
• Get to know everyone across the Brand Creative team and critical leaders/stakeholders in Marketing
• Start to familiarize yourself with Sprout’s brand story and family of products

Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:

• Attend stand-ups, project kick-offs, concept brainstorms with the Brand Creative team and our partners
• Work closely with creative leads and stakeholders to kick off creative projects, and begin contributing to motion design work
• Gain a good understanding of the Sprout customer and their needs, and how compelling storytelling can help solve their problems

Within 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through:

• Provide motion design on projects from inception to completion
• Be comfortable and proactive about working with the rest of the Brand Creative team to push the creativity of our storytelling and overall brand through motion
• Maintain brand integrity while advancing creativity within all motion design work

Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:

• Elevate our video production strategies to towards becoming a leader in the SaaS industry 
• Be entirely at home as a critical member of the Brand Creative team and company with a deep understanding of the stakeholders needs
• Surprise us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change Sprout in beneficial ways we haven’t even considered yet

Of course what is outlined above is the ideal timeline, but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager.

Our Benefits Program

We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes:

• Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
• Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program 
• High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
• Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
• Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program and  employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
• Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
• Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting

Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States. However, we are not set up in all states, so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed. Few roles require an office setting. If your position requires a physical presence in a Sprout office, it will be evident in the job listing and your offer letter.

Individual base pay is based on various factors, including work location, relevant experience and skills, the responsibility of the role, and job duties/requirements. In the United States, we have two geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires are:

• Zone 1 (New York, California, Washington): $92,840.00 (min), $116,100.00 (mid), $139,260.00 (max) USD annually
• Zone 2 (All other US states): $84,400.00(min), $105,500.00 (mid), $126,600.00 (max) USD annually

The listed ranges represent the full earning potential in this position. Starting salaries for well-qualified new hires are typically around the midpoint of the range. These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach; we used data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set equitable, consistent, and competitive ranges. We also evaluate compensation bi-annually, identify any changes in the market and make adjustments to our ranges and existing employee compensation as needed.

Base pay is only one element of an employee's total compensation at Sprout. Every Sprout team member has an opportunity to receive restricted stock units (RSUs) under Sprout’s equity plan. Employees (and their dependents) are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life, accidental death, and dismemberment insurance, and Modern Health (a wellness benefit).  Employees are able to enroll in Sprout’s company’s 401k plan, in which Sprout will match 50% of your contributions up to 6% with a maximum contribution. Sprout offers “Flexible Paid Time Off” and ten paid holidays. We have outlined the various components to an employee’s full compensation package here to help you to understand our total rewards package.

Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on identity- race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged or sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law. Because Sprout Social is a federal contractor, we affirmatively recruit individuals with a disability and protected veterans. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in our latest DEI Report.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. We'll do all we can to ensure you're set up for success during our interview process while upholding your privacy, including requests for accommodation. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please click here (1) Equal Opportunity Employment Poster and (2) Sprout Social's Affirmative Action Statement. 

Additionally, Sprout Social participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. 

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