This role is in the organization to support the Motion & Sound team and to ensure a cohesive motion output.

The core expectation of this role is to contribute to the creative excellence of our motion design team by participating in the conception, execution, and delivery of impactful solutions for clients and to collaborate with other artists, creative directors, and producers, to develop motion graphics and animations, applying fundamental design principles to create engaging visuals. 

You will:

• Work alongside a team in end-to-end productions, including concepting, creative ideation,
• animatics, rough cuts, final edits, versioning, optimization and scaling
• Create high quality visually impactful motion design
• Guide and mentor emerging talent, with the support of your team lead
• Evolve and move the work forward daily
• Contribute in meetings and conversation with teams on ways to elevate the work
• Ensure that all motion graphics adhere to brand guidelines and project specifications throughout the creative process

You have: 

• English Proficiency (B2+/C1 reading, writing, and conversation)
• Advanced proficiency in After Effects, skillfully applying easing techniques to achieve fluid and natural motion transitions, basic experience with expressions
• Familiarity with emerging creative tools like Midjourney, Unreal Engine and AI applications
• In-depth knowledge of video formats, compression, and optimization, delivering high-quality motion content tailored for various digital platforms. 
• Experience in Cinema 4D and other industry-standard motion & video software is a plus. 

What We Offer:

• Competitive benefits packages
• Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
• Access to online services for families and new parents
• End of year closure days (not deducted form vacation balance)
• Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
• Internal learning and development programs
• And more…

At Critical Mass, we value our employees and offer competitive compensation and benefits packages.  If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of our employees, we encourage you to apply for this exciting position today!

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. 

About Us: 

Critical Mass is a team of 1,500 inspired folks based in 12 offices around the world, providing full-service digital capabilities for the greatest brands on Earth. Our secret sauce is our uncompromising design standards, our relentless focus on customers, and an ability to put powerful new technologies to work for our clients.

We work with the best—Apple, Nike, Diageo, Airbnb, BMW, BNY Mellon, Johnson & Johnson, and many more—brands who strive for connected digital ecosystems and unparalleled experiences. We help them get there by gaining deep insight into their consumers and orchestrating data, AI, design, media, and tech stacks around human stories.

We’re a global agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special, quirky place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. (We actually give out a “so f-n nice” award—lots of them). But just because we’re friendly doesn’t mean we’re not a force to be reckoned with. We’re driven. Relentless. And we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Please call us CM!

Our Values: 

• Honest - Tell the trust and make courageous choices
• Driven - Never stop trying
• Real - Never be fake
• Equal - Treat each other as equals – always
• Purposeful - Make the world a better place
• Inspired - Listen and engage 

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you are an individual with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@criticalmass.com.

We are committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within our pool of candidates, with a target of achieving at least 50% representation from underrepresented communities.

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.

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