Lead Motion Designer

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🕒 February 18

🌐 Spain, United States, +1 more countries – Remote

🇪🇸 Spain – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🗿 3D Artist

👻 Ghost score 69%

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Sourcing Unicorns

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1 - 10 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🏨 Hospitality

Consulting • Marketing • Hospitality

Sourcing Unicorns is a specialized recruitment agency focused on sourcing unique creative and technical talent in the creative sectors such as immersive installations, experiential marketing, 3D animation, VFX, gaming, dubbing, and theme parks. They provide tailored recruitment strategies, headhunting missions, and employer branding services to help organizations find and retain the right talent, which they believe is as unique as unicorns. Their services include in-house recruiting, pipeline activation, and headhunting coaching, ensuring they meet the specific needs of their clients in dynamic creative industries.

📋 Description

• Create best-in-class styleframes, motion explorations, and visual directions across a variety of media • Define aesthetic systems including color palettes, lighting direction, composition, motion language, and rendering approaches • Translate strategy documents, briefs, and mood boards into comprehensive visual concepts • Develop toolkits, look libraries, and visual guidelines that maintain consistency throughout production • Lead and direct nearshore / offshore artists and boutique studios, ensuring alignment with the established visual vision • Provide actionable, detailed feedback to maintain quality and consistency across deliverables • Oversee visual outputs from distributed teams and ensure they meet craft and creative standards • Collaborate closely with the Animation Director to uphold and advance the studio’s visual bar • Partner with Creative Directors, Experience Designers, Producers, and Technical Directors to align visual design with narrative, interaction, and technical feasibility • Support pitches and new business initiatives through high-impact visual exploration and look-dev imagery • Ensure visual direction translates effectively into real-time engines, large-format canvases, and immersive spaces

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience in visual design, art direction, motion design, or animation for immersive content or digital experiences • Demonstrated experience leading or directing distributed creative teams and vendor studios • Proven ability to define a visual look and successfully lead its execution end-to-end • Mastery of motion design principles, lighting, composition, and storytelling through imagery • Strong ability to create styleframes, look-dev, and high-fidelity visual systems • Confidence balancing hands-on craft with leadership and feedback responsibilities • Ability to translate abstract strategy into tangible visual outcomes • Advanced expertise in tools such as Houdini, After Effects, Cinema 4D, Blender, Redshift / Octane, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Figma • Experience with real-time look development tools such as Unreal, Unity, TouchDesigner, or Notch is a strong plus • Familiarity with AI-assisted workflows or generative design tools is a bonus • Background in experiential, themed entertainment, museum media, or large-scale installations is highly valued • Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate visual intent clearly to both creative and technical stakeholders • Highly organized, adaptable, and capable of maintaining excellence across multiple concurrent projects.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Professional development opportunities