Senior Motion Designer

Linkfire is looking for a full-time Senior Motion Designer with a sound understanding of how to develop great consumer experiences for the global music consumer and a passion for innovating social advertising. You’ll join a company with roots and heart in music, a team of 40+ tech and music enthusiasts from all parts of the world. Rockers and DJs, soccer and basketball players, early twenties and late thirties - we have it all! The Role: In a quickly growing startup, new opportunities and challenges arise constantly. We’re working every day to create new and better versions of our products and to create a great experience for our clients, consumers and artists. We’re now on a mission to take our consumer experience to the next level and are venturing into content creation, motion/animation and storytelling. As our new Senior Motion Designer, we want you to lead this journey and bring our vision to life through concept creation, development and execution of animated content and motion graphics. You will join a development team that is in the process of building and innovative social ad product, which uses first party data to automatically hyper target and run personalized ads to music fans worldwide. Your work will be a core part of this product and the future of promoting artists and music to a global music audience. Responsibilities: - Develop, animate and design motion graphics and the look & feel of a wide range of music related video templates - As part of a product development team, you will work in close relations with the other designers, take the leading role in the field of motion graphics and mentor junior designers - You will develop visual material for new features in close collaboration with the development team and support the product vision of raising the consumer experience through personalized ads to the next level - Build and maintain a style guide in the field of animation and motion graphics - Support the continued development of our brand identity and ensure strong branding in your work - Develop and support our own marketing activities in the field of video and film, including occasionally recording and editing original video and voice overs Abilities and Skills: - You have 5+ years of experience in the field of motion graphics design, video editing and visual design - You have advanced knowledge of Adobe After Effects - You have professional experience with the Adobe Suite CC (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere) - You have the ability to work in a wide range of styles and can show a strong portfolio consisting of both animation and visual/graphic design to back it up - You're experienced with social media content production and advertising - You have an awesome attitude, excellent communication and problem-solving skills, and you’re organized and detail-oriented - You equally perform well as a one-person band and as part of an internal team, with the ability to lead, coordinate and efficiently cooperate - You have the ability to constructively take feedback and directions from internal and external stakeholders - It’s a plus if you are experienced in developing brand identities in the entertainment sector - Understanding of the tech industry and/or prior experience working at a startup are both an advantage! About Linkfire: We’re a passionate team of music techies on a mission to make music consumption easier for fans, labels and artists. The music industry is transforming constantly, the market is fragmented and split across many different platforms and services. Physical sales are going down. Legal downloads and in particular streaming are gaining momentum. The transformation will continue and the years to come will be very interesting. We want to contribute to the transformation by bringing music and fans closer. Not inside music services, but outside where fans and artists engage. Our approach is to index digital music across music services and provide smart links that route fans directly to the music regardless of their location or which player or platform they use. It’s complex. We make it simple. What we offer: - The opportunity to work in one of the fastest growing music tech companies in the world and for your work to be seen and used by millions of music enthusiasts all over the globe - An open, informal entrepreneurial start-up working environment - An awesome, international office with colleagues from 20+ different nationalities - Great responsibilities and career possibilities