Senior Motion Designer

The role of Senior Motion Designer at Bold is to lead the development and delivery of high-quality motion design across a wide range of brand expressions. This includes the creation of motion concepts, behaviors, principles, and executions that bring visual identities and narratives to life across platforms.

As a senior team member, you are expected to take creative and strategic ownership within projects, contributing both conceptually and technically. You will play a key role in shaping motion design across pitches, branding and activation projects, and case studies — ensuring that work is grounded in strategy, crafted with precision, and delivered with ambition.

Ongoing dialogue and alignment with clients, as well as colleagues across other NoA agencies, is a key part of the role.

Strong communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and the ability to independently drive the motion discipline within a multidisciplinary team are essential. You are expected to mentor junior designers, support capability building, and contribute to a forward-thinking, inclusive studio culture.

1. Creative Leadership & Concept Development

• Develop motion concepts that can inform and/or support overaching design direction, in collaboration with project leads.
• Ensure motion behaviors align with brand strategy and design direction.
• Take full ownership of the motion design component within brand projects.
• Advocate for the role of motion in shaping brand perception and user experience.

1. Strategic & Systemic Thinking

• Apply motion design strategically to reinforce narrative, audience insight, and business objectives.
• Understand how motion contributes to user experience, accessibility, and brand coherence across digital and physical environments.
• Contribute to the development of motion principles as part of broader design systems.

1. Technical Craft & Delivery Excellence

• Deliver well-crafted and technically robust motion systems tailored to client implementation needs.
• Maintain a high level of detail and quality across all motion outputs.
• Stay current with tools, platforms, and techniques in motion design, animation, 3D, and film.
• Define and improve workflows, tools, and documentation to support scalable delivery.

1. Collaboration & Project Ownership

• Collaborate across disciplines with strategists, creatives, developers, and production partners.
• Manage timelines, deliverables, and scope for motion-related tasks and workstreams.
• Partner with third-party collaborators such as filmmakers, illustrators, and producers.
• Ensure clear communication and creative alignment across all project stakeholders.

1. Client Engagement & Advocacy

• Represent the motion discipline in client meetings, workshops, and presentations.
• Guide clients in understanding and leveraging motion as a brand asset.
• Challenge teams and clients constructively to explore innovative, bold solutions.

1. Mentorship & Capability Building

• Provide clear, supportive feedback to junior designers to foster skill development.
• Contribute to training programs for colleagues, new hires, and interns.
• Share knowledge to raise the studio’s creative and technical standards in motion.

1. Innovation & Offering Development

• Propose new approaches and ideas to evolve Bold’s motion offering — individually or with the team.
• Explore emerging formats, platforms, and technologies that expand the possibilities for motion branding.

1. Cultural Contribution

• Help foster a collaborative, inclusive, and creatively ambitious studio environment.
• Actively participate in internal discussions, critiques, and initiatives that shape Bold’s culture and creative direction.

• Delivering motion work that is as strategically meaningful as it is visually distinctive.
• Elevating the motion discipline within Bold and helping others grow alongside you.
• Championing new ways to express brands through movement, and challenging expectations with every project.