Sr. Motion Designer & Animator

At Realtor.com®, we have among the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of real estate listings and the most engaged users across all the online real estate portals. Our mission is to make buying, selling, renting, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone.

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Are you an animation expert? Are you eager to apply your range of experience across all mediums: social, video, apps, broadcast, film to something new? If you want to pursue your professional goals as you help grow an innovative real estate tech company, this work is for you. Join us as our newest Sr. Motion Designer & Animator and help change the world of real estate, one home at a time.

We’re looking for Sr. Motion Designer & Animator to join the internal creative team and help modernize the brand through new motion design standards. You’re a thought-leader helping advance the craft. But also a hands-on doer, who can’t wait to show off ideas that make people feel something.

Most of all, you are a storyteller that lives to bring concepts to life. You see motion as more than a craft—to you it’s a problem solving tool for communications, for product, and for user experiences.

You’ll produce compelling content - from concept to delivery—used across a variety of programs, channels, and platforms.  From a motion study for a long-scrolling site; to a cinemagraph on social; to reimagining endcard sequences—your job will be to transform static moments into surprisingly delightful ones.

You’ll also be an integral part of the creative process. This means you’ll pitch ideas, collaborate with writers, designers, and stakeholders. Creating a variety of motion design documents including storyboards, animatics, creative briefs, motion specs, and guidelines. Evolving our motion language, one project, one asset, and one timeline at a time.

What you’ll do:

• Evangelizing motion across the organization

• Finding opportunities where motion can enhance the work

• Evolving our motion language, guidelines and principles

• Helping designers think about how things feel, move, act, sound, and express emotion

• Finding and sharing new ways of working, new workflows and new tools

What you’ll bring:

• 5+ years experience at in-house studio or agency

• 2+ years leading a team with direct-reports

• Technical champion with an obsessive attention to detail

• Range of experience across all mediums: social, video, apps, broadcast, film

• Self-starter, with something to prove

• Optimist, fast-learner and deeply curious

• A knack for editorial, sound design, and timing

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Nice to have

• Lottie

• Figma

• 3D tools (Cinema 4D/Maya)

• Automation and programmatic animation

• HTML, CSS, and JS standards 

Additional locations for this role are Santa Clara, CA, Chicago, IL, Austin, TX, Morgantown, WV, and Scottsdale, AZ

At Realtor, we recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company.  As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates.

The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect in the listed locations. We tailor our offers based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, location and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.  All ranges are location based, ranges for positions in other locations may vary based on the local market.

Salary Range for select office locations 

Santa Clara $99,050 to $141,150

New York $92,050 to 131,150

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Accordingly, offers extended for this role will include an annual bonus target typically expressed as percentage of salary.  Similarly to salary, annual incentive bonus targets are set based on a variety of factors including job level, competitive market practice, experience, tenure, and essential skills. 

In addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com

Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. People are our foundation—the core that drives us passionately forward. At Realtor.com, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, realtor.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, realtor.com will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.