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: 

• Advanced proficiency in After Effects, skillfully applying easing techniques to achieve fluid and natural motion transitions, basic experience with expressions
• English Proficiency (B2+/C1 reading, writing, and conversation)
• In-depth knowledge of video formats, compression, and optimization, delivering high-quality motion content tailored for various digital platforms.
• Basic blueprints knowledge is required, C++ experience is a bonus
• Familiarity with emerging creative tools like Midjourney, Unreal Engine and AI applications is a bonus.
• Worked in automotive and with high-end rendering pipelines (Arnold and Redshift). 
• Understanding film, real-time development, and virtual production
• Proficiency with post-production and VFX pipelines
• Rendering knowledge with focus on real-time and near-real-time.

What We Offer:

• Maternity and parental leave extra days
• 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 from vacation balance)
• Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
• Internal learning and development programs
• Enterprise-wide employee discounts
• 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. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 5 days a week.

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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