Hybrid Staff Creative Designer

at Grammarly

• Job title: Staff Creative Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $210,000 - $250,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Staff Motion Designer with Superhuman, driving brand storytelling through motion design and collaboration with cross-functional teams. Leading projects and enhancing user experience in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize our brand and product storytelling through motion
• Develop creative concepts and visual storytelling solutions for product launches, brand campaigns, explainer videos, and marketing assets.
• Design and animate with exceptional craft
• Create high-quality motion graphics, animations, and visual effects for digital platforms, websites, social media, and presentations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners
• Work closely with product, marketing, UX/UI, and engineering teams to ensure motion design enhances user experience and aligns with project goals.
• Maintain and evolve brand guidelines
• Ensure all motion design work is consistent with established brand guidelines, and contribute to evolving motion standards for the brand.
• Lead and mentor
• Provide art direction, feedback, and mentorship to junior motion designers and other creatives on the team with whom you partner.
• Stay updated on cutting-edge technology
• Research and implement emerging motion design trends, tools, and best practices to keep the team’s work fresh and competitive.
• Pitch creative ideas
• Present motion concepts and storyboards to stakeholders, clearly communicating the rationale behind creative decisions.
• Manage multiple projects
• Oversee multiple projects simultaneously, meeting deadlines and adapting to shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Proactivity: The company is moving quickly and it’s easy to feel left behind in the velocity. Intrinsic proactivity will be key for this role to succeed.
• Understanding of core strategy: Your work will push the boundaries of our brand, but also needs to be relevant to the business.
• Curiosity: This role will require questioning, challenging, and embracing discussion. You’ll need to fall in love with the details and seek to understand where the gaps lie.
• Grit: This role will be required to work in constantly changing product conditions as the company continues to ship at a high velocity.

Benefits

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
• Disability and life insurance options
• 401(k) and RRSP matching
• Paid parental leave
• Twenty days of paid time off per year, eleven days of paid holidays per year, and unlimited sick days
• Home office stipends
• Caregiver and pet care stipends
• Wellness stipends
• Admission discounts
• Learning and development opportunities