Job Details:
Job Title: Art Director (Animation / Motion Graphics) – Mid Level (3-5 years)
Location: Austin, TX (3-Days/week Hybrid Onsite)
Duration: 18-Months (Potential To Extend)
Type: Full-time, Contract
Description:
This role will primarily be working on art direction of customizable animations and videos. You'll collaborate closely with a writing partner to develop strategic storylines and direct animators and video editors to create a final product in a customizable video platform like Sunday Sky.
Duties:
- Close partnership with a writer for all projects
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams (Animators, Video editors, UX and Writers).
- Excellent interpersonal, communications and organizational skills.
- Strong client-facing experience and presentation skills.
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented individual with ability and experience to manage many projects simultaneously.
- Ability to work on large-scale digital projects, tight deadlines, and high volume of work with geographically dispersed teams.
Qualifications:
- Expert in Adobe Creative Suite.
- Knowledge of Figma.
- Works within brand guidelines.
- Knowledge of animation and video process (you will not animate or edit).
- Experience with storyboarding for animation & video.
- Experience with using illustration to create storyboards.
- Experience manipulating existing illustration to create something new.
- Experience working with an animator and/or editor to communicate animation an editing direction.
- Understand web technologies, emerging design trends, user-centered design, touch screen design and mobile platforms.
- Great presenter.
- Mastered time management.
- Takes direction and feedback well.
- Knows when to ask for help.
- You will not code or animate.
- A BFA degree in Design or equivalent.
- Minimum 5 years agency and/or enterprise experience.
- You must have exposure working with major brands in digital, animation & video.
- Portfolio required; link provided on resume.
Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans