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Staff Motion Designer - 3D

Mercury· Creative
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York, NY), Hybrid (Portland, OR), Remote$189.4k - $236.7k + equityfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior motion design role focused on 3D storytelling, motion systems, and AI-assisted workflows at a fintech brand. Own motion across launches, product visuals, and UI/interaction, while shaping brand motion standards and exploring AI for faster iteration without sacrificing craft.

Responsibilities

  • Lead motion concepts for major product launches, campaigns, and brand moments, with strong 3D capability across product visualization, environments, objects, and brand worlds.
  • Build 3D worlds, materials, and textures that give Mercury's biggest launches and brand moments a distinct, recognizable feel.
  • Lead product storytelling, title design, typography, transitions, diagrams, and UI motion, turning complex products into simple, compelling visual stories.
  • Define and build out Mercury's motion design system: principles for typography, pacing, transitions, product UI, sound, and interaction, plus reusable behaviors and templates that don't feel templated.
  • Explore motion in interactive contexts, and bring an informed point of view on where AI tooling can extend the team's speed and craft without flattening it.
  • Build and champion AI-assisted workflows for motion and 3D, from generative pre-vis and storyboarding to texture, world, and asset generation, and share what's working with the rest of Brand Studio.
  • Evaluate new AI creative tools as they emerge and make the call on which are worth adopting into the team's pipeline versus which compromise craft.
  • Partner with Design, Writing, Narrative, and Production from concept through delivery, and act as a key cross-functional player on the brand's biggest moments.
  • Personally lead high-level 3D and motion craft while art-directing specialist animators, 3D artists, and studios when additional depth or scale is needed.
  • Raise the motion craft of the broader Brand Studio through partnership, critique, and example: set the standard by doing the work, not just defining it.
  • Protect craft and coherence across every moving expression of the brand, from a 30-second launch film to a UI micro-interaction.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of professional experience in motion design, with a portfolio showing mastery across 3D and 2D and conceptual thinking about motion over time.
  • Advanced proficiency in Cinema 4D, Houdini, Blender, or similar 3D tools (materials, texturing, lighting, world-building).
  • Advanced proficiency in After Effects or similar 2D motion tools (timing, easing, composition, finishing detail).
  • Experience building and documenting motion systems or brand guidelines, not just one-off deliverables.
  • Comfort moving between high-craft brand moments and faster product/UI/social work without sacrificing quality.
  • Track record of art-directing or mentoring other designers, animators, or outside studios.
  • Genuine fluency with AI tooling as part of a creative practice, with clarity on where it helps and where craft wins.
  • Exposure to scripting or procedural workflows (expressions, Houdini VEX, Python) is a strong plus.
  • Strong communication skills to articulate concepts and decisions to internal teams, leadership, and external partners.
  • Natural leader who thrives in a collaborative environment where the best ideas drive progress.

Skills

Required:Motion design3D tools2D motion toolsMotion systemsLeadership & mentoringAI toolingCommunication
Nice to have:Scripting / procedural workflows

Benefits

  • Total rewards package includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.
  • Salary ranges are region-specific and updated regularly based on industry data.
  • New hire offers based on experience, location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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