Motion Graphics Designer

Job Description

About Rate Companies:

We’re Rate, the 3rd-largest retail mortgage company in the U.S.—and aiming to be #1. We’re dedicated to the idea that belief makes anything possible. In 21 years, we’ve gone from start-up to funding more than $100 billion in a single year. Our family is 11,000 people driven to making getting a mortgage the easiest part of the homebuying process. We hire the best people and have the industry’s best technology. (We invented the Digital Mortgage and work every day to create more leading-edge tech). Our HQ is in Chicago, but we’re in every state in more than 850 offices, working to make the dream of homeownership a reality for tens of thousands of people every year. Believe you’d be perfect here? We believe it too and would love to hear from you.

Pay Range: $65 to 75k

Job Overview

We are looking for a talented Motion Graphics Animator to join our marketing creative team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and animating compelling motion graphics, visual effects, and animated assets for marketing campaigns. Your work will help bring our brand stories to life, engage audiences, and drive conversions across digital and social media platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and animate motion graphics, kinetic typography, visual effects, and animated elements for digital marketing campaigns, social media, ads, website content, email campaigns, and presentations.
• Collaborate with the marketing and creative teams to develop engaging and visually striking animations that align with brand messaging and campaign objectives.
• Optimize animations for different digital platforms, ensuring the right formats, aspect ratios, and durations for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other digital channels.
• Incorporate branding elements, such as logos, color schemes, and typography, to maintain consistency in marketing visuals.
• Work with video editors, designers, and content creators to enhance video content with animated intros, transitions, lower thirds, and other motion graphics.
• Develop animated explainer videos, product demos, infographics, and interactive content to improve customer engagement.
• Stay up to date with motion design trends, marketing best practices, and emerging technologies to ensure fresh and innovative content.
• Ensure animations are optimized for web and mobile performance, keeping file sizes efficient without compromising quality.
• Manage and organize animation assets, templates, and project files for easy team access.
  
  

Qualifications & Skills

• Proven experience in motion graphics animation for marketing, advertising, or content creation.
• Expertise in Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, and other animation tools (Cinema 4D, Blender, etc., is a plus).
• Strong understanding of storytelling, visual composition, and motion design principles.
• Ability to create 2D animations, motion typography, and simple 3D animations.
• Knowledge of social media trends and best practices for animated content.
• Experience with motion tracking, visual effects, and compositing is a plus.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with marketing strategists, designers, and content teams.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines.
• Familiarity with UI animations, interactive design, or HTML5 animations is a plus.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Animation, Motion Design, Graphic Design, Multimedia Arts, or a related field (preferred but not required).
• Experience with branding, advertising, and performance marketing animation.
• Knowledge of 3D animation software (Cinema 4D, Blender, Maya) is a plus.
• Experience in A/B testing animations for ad performance is a plus.
  
  

Guaranteed Rate is an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes and encourages all applicants to apply regardless of age, race, sex, religion, color, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital or parental status, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy or other reason protected by law.

The company offers a comprehensive benefits program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; critical care insurance; personal accidental insurance; commuter benefits; pet insurance; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program); and other supplemental benefits (e.g. legal planning assistance; identity theft protection; pet insurance; wellness resources).

Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis, until position is filled.

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