Motion Designer, Vice President
JPMorganChase
Shape the future of user experience with strategic motion design initiatives that blend business needs and user insights.
As a Motion Designer, Vice President in the Chase Digital Channels Team, you will play a pivotal role in defining and implementing Chase’s motion design language across our mobile and web products. Leveraging your deep expertise in animation and design systems, you will create scalable, impactful motion that enhances usability and reinforces our brand. As a subject matter expert, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, guide and mentor junior designers, and foster a culture of inclusivity and accessibility. Your versatility in motion styles and understanding of animation principles will ensure our experiences are visually engaging, accessible, and user-friendly, delighting our customers at every touchpoint.
We are looking for an experienced and exceptionally talented Motion Designer/Animator with a key focus on creating scalable animation within Mobile (and secondarily Web) environments leveraging existing visual brand language and owned assets. Your passion lies in creating simple, impactful user experience and you are skilled at creating motion in this context, applying and extending existing brand guidelines within a design systems framework. You are versatile and comfortable creating motion in a variety of styles: 3D particles, highly polished product renders, and expressive 2D graphics. You are fluent in the language and nuance of animation (motion, easing, expressions) and how it can be leveraged successfully within product design. You understand where motion meets usability and love making the complex simple and scalable. You are an expert in the latest trends for mobile design, as well as have a keen eye for layout and visual hierarchy. You will help define and implement Chase’s motion design language and think critically about how motion reinforces our brand, enhances our message, and delights our users.
Key Responsibilities
- Create high quality animation proposals to celebrate owned brand assets in moments where the customers encounter them for the first time – from proof of concept to final execution
- Define scalable animation frameworks that allow ongoing updates as new assets are introduced into the design system
- Help define motion design language, and guide application within tech and accessibility parameters
- Enhance UI that extends existing brand guidelines, establishing core frameworks that drive design at scale
- Help create design system guidelines to empower design teams across DCE and Marketing and Advertising
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate motion design into product development processes and ensure seamless, customer-centric solutions
- Mentor junior designers and foster a culture of diversity, inclusion, and accessibility within the design team
- Analyze market trends, gather feedback from user research, and learn from data insights to inform motion design decisions and optimize user experiences across various platforms and channels
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 5+ years of experience as a motion designer or in animation/motion design roles
- Expertise in animation principles and tools (e.g., After Effects, Lottie, Spline, Cinema 4D)
- Strong portfolio delivering video and motion for native iOS and Android apps, as well as web
- Advanced understanding of design systems, UX, and UI product design
- Demonstrated experience in inclusive design and accessibility guidelines
- Proven ability to create frameworks that support scalable design and brand expression
- Ability to concept, design, and deliver motion for design at scale
- Skilled in organizing assets and managing production processes with attention to detail
- Self-motivated, capable of independent decision-making, and receptive to direction
- Excellent collaborator and team player, able to participate in critique and incorporate feedback
- Easy to access online portfolio highlighting multiple projects and direct contributions
Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
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Shape the future of user experience with strategic motion design initiatives that blend business needs and user insights.