Video & Motion Design Principal
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 125000 - 160000
Posted on:
30 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Via is using technology to transform transportation around the world. From changing a single persons daily commute to reducing humanitys collective environmental footprint weve got huge goals.
As a Video & Motion Design Principal youll bring our brands and products to life through bold videos and motion graphics moving peoples hearts and minds. This role is based in New York City and reports directly to the Creative Director of our in-house studio. The studio is responsible for elevating Via Citymapper and Remix brands and delivering 360 communications to our riders commercial partners and investors. Youll be a key player in our in-house Video & Motion practice youll help concept capture and execute video & motion content at scale. Typically projects include product launches exclusive events rider and partner success stories investor presentations and more. This role is perfect for a skilled video storyteller and motion designer who excels emotionally engaging audiences while also thinking strategically and staying highly organized.
What Youll Do:
- Elevate craft and output: Define champion and enforce industry-leading motion design quality reflecting Vias position as a global technology leader. Continuously explore and adopt new practices to push our motion design capabilities.
- Strategic conceptualization: Lead high-stakes projects transforming complex information into clear impactful motion narratives that drive outcomes. Collaborate cross-functionally to translate partner needs into crafted digital experiences.
- Systemic scalability: Evangelize design within the organization and architect net new scalable motion guidelines principles and component-based systems that empower cross-functional partners and external agencies to operate autonomously while maintaining brand fidelity.
- Cross-functional leadership: Senior subject matter expert leading project management and execution across Partner & Product Marketing Communications Growth Partnerships Policy and Finance. Bridge technical complexity and visual simplicity.
- Mentorship and development: Actively mentor creative peers instilling a deep understanding of craft technical rigor and AI-accelerated workflows to elevate the entire design organizations capabilities.
- Accelerated production: Lead the integration of AI tooling and emerging creative technologies into the motion design stack for optimized high-velocity processes to reduce production cycles without sacrificing quality.
- Digital design pro: Communicate ideas through research user/customer journey wireframes/storyboards prototypes and final production. Product and UX/UI design knowledge is a plus for conveying features and benefits.
- Empathetic approach: Address audience pain points through approachable design. Collaborate with product designers and partnerships to align goals and bridge knowledge gaps.
Who You Are:
- A world-class motion designer with a minimum of 8 years of experience in leading technology companies or high-growth SaaS/B2B organizations.
- Deep expertise in translating complex technical concepts (i.e. data science visualizations technical product infrastructure flows process optimization algorithms) into intuitive high-impact motion graphics.
- A big-picture thinker who can seamlessly move between high-level conceptualization and pixel-perfect execution under tight deadlines.
- Proven experience in designing documenting and implementing comprehensive motion design systems and component libraries for global brand scalability.
- Experience in generative AI computational design tools and real-time rendering pipelines.
- Technical stack mastery across Adobe Creative Suite Cinema 4D/Blender Figma and interaction design/prototyping tools.
- Exceptional project management and collaboration skills and a track record of successfully leading major cross-functional design initiatives.
Compensation and Benefits:
- Final salary will be determined by the candidates experience knowledge and skills. Salary reflected does not include equity or variable pay where applicable
- Salary Range: $125000 - $160000 per year
- We are proud to offer a generous and comprehensive benefits package including free medical plans and 401K matching.
Were Via and we build technology that changes the way the world moves. Were driven by a simple mission: to create modern and efficient public transportation systems that provide far greater access to jobs healthcare and education. With our best in class suite of products we make transit thrive.
Our teams of world-class engineers data-scientists product managers operations specialists marketers transit experts and more bring cutting-edge AI-powered software and innovative technology-enabled operations to our partners across the globe. Founded in 2012 Via builds solutions to digitize automate and enable data-driven decision making for entire transportation networks; fixed-route buses microtransit paratransit school buses autonomous vehicles and more.
If youre excited to be at the forefront of modernizing the future of transportation are up for solving tough problems and willing to become/already are a transit nerd we are the place for you. Even if your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description for this role we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities.
Ready to join the ride
Via is an equal opportunity employer.
Key Skills
- Business Development
- Classroom Experience
- Dayforce
- Go
- Cloud Computing
- AWS
- Teaching
- Administrative Experience
- Leadership Experience
- negotiation
- SAS
- Data Analysis Skills
About Company
We’re Via, and we build technology that changes the way the world moves. Our guiding principle is simple: we know that the future of transportation is safe, dynamic, shared public mobility — the kind that reduces carbon emissions across congested cities, complements existing transit i ... View more
