Senior Motion Designer, UI/3D (Freelance)

Instrument is a remote-first digital product and brand experience agency with over 200 talented people across four teams, each focused on a core offering and dedicated to producing best-in-class work. Our shift to a fully remote model has amplified our ability to foster creativity, build strong relationships, and engage with clients in dynamic ways. This flexibility has not only strengthened our company culture but also enabled us to embrace diverse perspectives. We remain deeply committed to career advancement, personal support, and ensuring a healthy work-life balance for everyone we hire.
You are a designer whose creativity manifests in motion graphics, moving imagery, and bringing experiences to life across screens of all types. You understand how objects moving through space and time can communicate as much as the forms of the objects themselves. You’re always pushing to make the best work, whether it’s bringing an interface to life, telling a complex story, or creating the perfect transition.
You connect everything you do to the goals of the project, never getting distracted by something that doesn’t tie back. You love the art of storytelling, but you specialize in UI/UX animation. You’re not scared to try out new technologies and visual approaches. Your style is collaborative and vocal; you engage your team and projects with openness, thoughtfulness, and hard work. You’ll be a lynchpin, so there's no hiding behind anyone else in this role.
You are available from 10/28-11/8 at 40 hours/week.

What You'll Do

• Work with a team to create a large variety of content and interactive experiences, from UI/UX and shape layer animations, to storyboards, to motion graphics, to 3D
• Move from working with others on large-scale projects to owning your own, stand-alone projects from concept to completion
• Think strategically and apply your skills to proactive problem-solving in a collaborative team environment
• Have a strong POV on the art direction of motion and how it manifests within the holistic project creative
• Collaborate closely with design and development partners to create, generate and translate motion across all screens
• Communicate closely with producers the best approach and process to execute against project tasks
• Be an industry expert, live and breath motion design and digital culture
• Be nimble and flexible to manage multiple projects at the same time as well as an asset in other agency needs, studio-wide
• Do great work and be great to work with

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years’ experience working as a Motion Designer, Animator, or related
• Outstanding portfolio showing a variety of work with your role clearly defined for each project
• Fluency in an array of interactive design, motion, and prototyping tools, and the ability to transition seamlessly between them
• The ability to generate multiple, unique design directions independently
• The autonomy to take your work over the finish line for clients with little supervision
• Strategic problem solving skills and the capacity to distill complex information into meaningful concepts or ideas
• Strong written, verbal and visual presentation skills that get across the process, approach, and impact of your design
• A mind for best practices, paired with a willingness to try something just crazy enough to work
• Ability to move quickly to prove out ideas, and a learning mindset
• Efficient workflows and consistency in organizing files for collaboration
• The ability to work and self-direct in a fluid, collaborative environment
• A willingness to sharing your process and work-in-progress with the team
• Experience working on cross-discipline teams
• Confidence and humility, and an understanding of when/how to apply each

Pay Range

• The expected pay range for this role is $65-84 per hour , but will depends on the level in which you are engaged
• Our company has three regional pay bands that it adheres to depending on your location, we reference them as US 1, US 2, and US 3.
• US 3 is our base pay. Examples of cities in US 3 are Portland, Houston and Miami.
• US 2 pay is 7.5% higher than US 3 to meet the market rates. Examples of cities in US 2 are Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle.
• US 1 pay is 15% higher than US 3 to meet market rates. Examples of cities in US 1 are Brooklyn and San Francisco.
• If you are curious which region you are in, please apply and get connected with our recruiting team!