Senior Motion Designer

Microsoft’s Creative, Advertising & Integrated Marketing team is looking for a Senior Motion Designer to join the design organization supporting Windows, Surface and Services.    You are first and foremost a motion designer: a visual thinker with exceptional taste, a sophisticated understanding of movement, and deep expertise in using motion to give brands energy, character and behavior.    Reporting to the Head of Design, you’ll help define how our visual identities come to life through motion. You’ll develop distinctive motion languages and create beautifully crafted work across brand systems, campaigns, social, digital, film, retail, experiential and other customer-facing experiences.    This is a hands-on senior creative role. You’ll concept, design, animate and direct motion from early exploration through final execution. You’ll work across kinetic typography, graphic animation, transitions, image and product choreography, compositing and other forms of motion expression, bringing an exceptional sensitivity to timing, rhythm, pacing and movement.    You’ll partner closely with designers, Creative Directors and agency and production partners to build motion that feels intentional, contemporary and unmistakably connected to the broader visual identity.    We’re looking for someone who obsesses over the details of movement: not simply whether something moves, but how it moves, why it moves, when it moves and what that movement communicates.

Key Responsibilities   Create distinctive, sophisticated motion design for Windows, Surface and Services across campaigns, brand systems, social, digital, web, film, retail, experiential and other customer-facing touchpoints.    Help define and evolve motion languages for our brands, establishing principles for timing, rhythm, easing, transitions, choreography and behavior.    Translate static visual identity systems into expressive motion systems that feel native to movement rather than simply animated versions of static designs.    Concept, design and execute motion from early exploration and styleframes through animation, refinement and final delivery.    Develop kinetic typography, graphic animation, transitions, image choreography, product motion, compositing and other forms of motion expression.    Explore how typography, shape, color, imagery, product and interface elements behave over time to create distinctive and recognizable brand expression.    Bring a sophisticated understanding of timing, pacing, rhythm, weight, dimensionality, hierarchy and visual continuity to every execution.    Develop scalable motion principles and behaviors that can work consistently across formats, channels, aspect ratios and customer experiences.    Partner closely with the Head of Design and design team to ensure motion is considered as a fundamental component of the visual identity rather than an executional layer added at the end.    Collaborate with Creative Directors in Art & Film to integrate motion design thoughtfully into advertising and film while complementing the narrative, cinematography and editorial approach of the work.    Work with designers and copywriters to explore how typography, language, imagery and graphic systems can come alive through movement.    Create motion explorations, prototypes and studies that allow teams to understand the potential of an idea before committing to final execution.    Apply motion systems across a wide spectrum of expressions, from short-form social and digital assets to campaign films, launch moments, retail environments and large-format displays.    Direct and collaborate with motion studios, animators, editors, CG artists, VFX artists and other specialist partners when projects require external production.    Maintain an informed point of view on contemporary motion design, animation, typography, filmmaking, design, technology and culture, bringing