Motion Designer

Punchcut is looking for a Motion Designer to join our team. You should have a strong understanding of user-centered design and be comfortable working independently and in collaboration with other designers. You have at least 2 years of relevant design experience, including mobile apps/platforms, web, and/or other consumer devices. You feel comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative, creative design studio environment.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as Motion Designer on client-facing projects.
  • Apply user-centered design processes to solve problems in contexts that have little precedence.
  • Participate in brainstorming and concepting sessions internally and with clients.
  • Explore a range of motion directions and participate in client reviews to make informed selections.
  • Iterate and refine motion systems based on client feedback.
  • Create production assets and document motion systems for engineering teams as necessary.
  • Sketch product concepts as part of a collaborative project team.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years experience in digital motion design for mobile, television, tablet, web, and software
  • Experience in After Effects and other motion and prototyping applications
  • A stellar portfolio that demonstrates creative range and conceptual thinking
  • Superior communication skills to articulate design decisions clearly to teams and clients
  • Passion for design and the evolution of the interactive user experience
  • Solid understanding of mobile platforms and UI presentation-layer technologies
  • Ability to produce quality work in short timeframes and manage time efficiently
  • Ambitious, proactive, conceptual, and honest

Bonus points for:

  • Consumer device UI currently in market
  • 3D modeling, live action video production, animation, and/or experience with AR/VR

Why Punchcut?

We are a user interface design company specializing in mobile and convergent experiences across consumer devices. We provide strategy, design and development services – from original user research and usability studies to the complete design and development of custom interfaces. Clients span the industry, and include operators, device manufacturers and leading entertainment brands. Punchcut partners with clients to create solutions that place devices and services in new contexts and empower users at the center of the evolving device ecosystem.

We are looking for smart, energetic people who care about design, and value a good work-life balance. Because of our size and focus everyone shares real impact on the decisions we make. We’re striving to create a different kind of company; one where people are the priority and the future is the focus. We also love the diversity, challenge and satisfaction that come from our projects. From creating a future user experience vision and strategy to assessing the detailed usability of next year’s hottest wearable, Punchcut designs the future. Punchcut also offers a balanced, life-friendly work environment, as well as medical/dental/life/disability insurance, paid time off, sabbatical time, a 401k plan, commuter benefits, and annual device and education allowances.

Location

San Francisco

Commitment

Full-time

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