Paid Social Motion Designer

Summary

Join Ethos as a Motion Designer focused on Paid Social and help elevate our brand's design across various platforms. You will create engaging and effective paid social ads, ensuring optimal performance. This role requires proficiency in motion graphics software and a strong portfolio showcasing paid social experience. You will collaborate with marketing and product design teams to tell compelling visual stories. The ideal candidate possesses strong design principles understanding and excellent communication skills. Ethos offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 4-6 years of professional marketing design experience with a focus on motion and video design
• Strong portfolio demonstrating a variety of design styles and capabilities. Must showcase paid social experience to be considered
• Experience with conversion-oriented design and a proven ability to create high-performing paid social ads
• Demonstrated ability to use motion graphic animation techniques to bring designs to life and enhance storytelling
• Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator)
• Strong understanding of paid social formats, and online video delivery
• Excellent understanding of design principles, typography, color theory, and composition
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to foster strong working relationships with team members and cross-functional partners
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Strong skills around critical thinking and storytelling
• Receptive to feedback in an iterative design process
• Able to work independently, drive multiple projects at a time, and iterate quickly

Responsibilities

• Elevate and evolve Ethos design direction across paid channels including Meta, Tiktok, Influencer, Youtube and long-form video, while creating a consistent brand experience across all video and animation touch-points
• Design engaging and effective paid social ads, including static, animated, and video concepts ensuring optimal performance across different platforms, formats and resolutions
• Proficiency in industry-standard motion graphics software (e.g., Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro) used to create high-quality video assets, including short-form video ads (TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube shorts), long-form video (Youtube, explainer videos), and animated story ads
• Design a high volume of social media creatives working directly against a brief or existing design or concepting and designing net-new creatives. Must be able to storyboard and clearly present ideas before moving into production
• Ideal candidate would have interest in art direction and identifying and pitching ideas that create business or user value
• Collaborate efficiently with marketing and product design to tell Ethos’ story with compelling visuals, iconography, typography, photography, animation and infographics across all digital channels and platforms

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in DTC or financial services industry preferred

Benefits

• US national base salary range for this full-time position is $91,000 - $148,000
• Benefits (details available at https://www.ethoslife.com/careers/)