Senior Motion Designer, Brand Studio

Brand Studio is focused on building the Google brand. By combining user insights, strategic thinking, beautiful design and storytelling, our team creates a wide range of work that drives Google’s reputation for being helpful to people, businesses, and communities. Our work also aims to build advocacy and trust in the brand. To achieve that, we’re a multidisciplinary team of marketers, strategists, insights specialists, creatives, producers, and engineers who work together to create exceptional marketing.

As a Motion Designer on the Brand Studio team, you will define how the brand moves and create dynamic visual narratives, and collaborate with the team to bring innovative ideas. You will contribute to concepts, communicate ideas via storyboards and animatics, and solve visual issues through timing and physics—output can range from kinetic typography and UI animations to short films and experiential installations.

Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $171,000-$254,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and visualize innovative concepts through style frames, animatics, and motion tests. Work closely with product and marketing teams to understand new product capabilities and translate complex features into clear, emotionally resonant visual narratives.
• Design and animate polished, high-fidelity content for product launches, from UI walk-throughs to abstract brand expressions. Deliver assets optimized for specific channels, ensuring content thrives across social, digital, and event screens.
• Apply a sense of timing, physics, typography, and composition to ensure all output is visually effective.
• Provide valuable feedback to engineering and research teams on the quality, control, and usability of generative outputs from a professional animator’s perspective.
• Research and experiment with the latest advancements in motion graphics, real-time rendering (e.g., Unreal, Rive), and generative AI video tools.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, or a related creative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 9 years of experience working in a creative discipline (Art Direction, Motion Design, or VFX) within a studio, agency, or internal creative team.
• Experience with Adobe After Effects.
• A portfolio of creative work displaying grade 2D and 3D motion graphics (e.g., title design, brand storytelling, or UI animation).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience to create visual effects for product campaigns, communications and marketing creative.
• Experience with node-based/custom generative AI interfaces for image/video synthesis and creative prototyping.
• Knowledge of JavaScript/ExtendScript for After Effects automation and familiarity with Python for C4D or other pipeline-related scripting.
• Proficiency in Cinema 4D (C4D), including 3D modeling, texturing, lighting, and rendering within a production pipeline.
• Proficiency in Adobe After Effects (including complex expression writing and third-party plugins) and in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator).
• Ability to adapt creative outputs across various workstreams (e.g.,brand identity, global communications, feature development, and product innovation).