Staff Motion Designer – 3D

🔥 15 hours ago

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

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💵 $170.4k - $236.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🗿 3D Artist

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Mercury

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2017

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

☁️ SaaS

Fintech • Banking • SaaS

Mercury is a software-driven fintech that provides business and personal banking products built for startups and small to mid-size companies. Its platform offers business checking and savings, Treasury products, business credit cards and spend management, payments and invoicing, accounting integrations and AI-powered automations, plus APIs and developer tools. Mercury partners with FDIC-insured banks to offer deposit protection, emphasizes virtual cards, granular spend controls, and workflow automations for teams, agencies, ecommerce brands, VC funds, and crypto businesses. The product is positioned as an all-in-one banking and finance platform delivered through a modern app and API.

📋 Description

• Lead motion concepts for major product launches, campaigns, and brand moments • Build 3D worlds, materials, and textures for launches and brand moments • Lead product storytelling, title design, typography, transitions, diagrams, and UI motion • Define and build Mercury's motion design system, including principles, reusable behaviors, and templates • Explore interactive motion contexts and AI tooling applications • Build and champion AI-assisted workflows for motion and 3D • Evaluate AI creative tools for adoption into the team's pipeline • Partner with Design, Writing, Narrative, and Production from concept through delivery • Lead high-level 3D and motion craft while art-directing specialist animators, 3D artists, and studios • Raise the motion craft of Brand Studio through partnership, critique, and example • Protect craft and coherence across all moving brand expressions

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience in motion design • Portfolio demonstrating mastery across 3D and 2D motion design and conceptual thinking • Advanced proficiency in Cinema 4D, Houdini, Blender, or similar 3D tools, including materials, texturing, lighting, and world-building • Advanced proficiency in After Effects or similar 2D motion tools, with command of timing, easing, composition, and finishing detail • Experience building and documenting motion systems or brand guidelines • Ability to move between high-craft brand moments and product/UI and social work without losing quality • Track record of art-directing or mentoring designers, animators, or outside studios • Fluency with AI tooling as part of a creative practice • Strong communication skills • Exposure to scripting or procedural workflows (expressions, Houdini VEX, Python) is a strong plus • Ability to thrive in a highly collaborative environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Base salary • Equity (stock options/RSUs) • Benefits • Equal Employment Opportunity employer • Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs