Netflix

Manager, Motion Design - Brand Creative Studio

Netflix$198K — $310K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in motion design in creative settings
  • Outstanding portfolio showcasing work in brand, campaign, and digital design
  • Strong design foundation with a capacity for visual system contribution
  • Experience across diverse formats, including social and digital media
  • Proven track record in creating high-volume production motion systems
  • Experience in managing external agencies and vendors
  • Proficiency in major design software including After Effects and Adobe Creative Suite
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills

Responsibilities

  • Develop motion concepts and creative direction for campaigns
  • Collaborate with design teams to integrate motion into concepts
  • Align motion solutions with brand strategy across media
  • Create scalable frameworks and toolkits for motion projects
  • Manage production needs and create lower-funnel assets
  • Act as motion design liaison for multiple brand teams
  • Direct external vendors while ensuring alignment with brand standards
  • Establish workflows for efficient motion production

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health plans and mental health support
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching
  • Stock option program
  • Disability programs and health savings accounts
  • Family-forming benefits
  • Flexible time off and generous paid leave programs
Full Job Description
Manager, Motion Design, Brand Creative Studio

THE ROLE

We are seeking a Manager, Motion Design to join the Brand Creative Studio. This role is a hands-on motion designer responsible for developing and executing motion systems across a wide range of brand and marketing initiatives, including the Netflix Brand, Netflix House, Product Marketing, and Corporate Communications.

This role sits across both Core Design and Production Design, bridging high-level creative development and large-scale execution. The focus is on translating brand strategy, creative direction, and design systems into scalable motion outputs across channels, formats, and markets.

You will play a critical role in defining how motion design operates within Brand Creative Studio, contributing to both concept development and high-volume execution. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams and external agencies to ensure motion work is delivered with clarity, craft, and consistency.

A strong portfolio demonstrating excellence in motion design across campaigns, systems thinking, and multi-format execution is required.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Motion Design & Creative Development

  • Contribute to the development of motion concepts and creative direction across campaigns, helping define how motion enhances storytelling and brand expression

  • Partner with designers and creative leads to integrate motion into early-stage concept development

  • Ensure motion solutions are aligned with brand strategy and creative intent across all touchpoints

Scalable Motion Systems & Production

  • Translate creative direction and brand systems into scalable motion frameworks, templates, and toolkits

  • Develop motion systems that can be applied across formats including social, digital, video, DOOH, and experiential environments

  • Support high-volume production needs, including lower-funnel assets such as banners, cutdowns, and performance-driven creative

Cross-Functional Creative Support

  • Serve as a motion design partner to teams across Brand, Netflix House, Product Marketing, Ads, and Corporate Communications

  • Ensure motion work is fit-for-purpose across different audiences, channels, and business needs

Agency & Partner Management

  • Collaborate with and provide direction to external motion vendors and agency partners

  • Ensure external work aligns with Netflix brand standards, motion systems, and production frameworks

  • Support decisions on when work should be executed internally versus externally

Quality, Craft & Workflow Development

  • Maintain a high bar for motion design quality across all outputs

  • Help define workflows, file structures, and best practices for motion production at scale

  • Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through templates, systems, and tooling

  • Stay current on motion design trends, tools, and emerging technologies

QUALIFICATIONS
  • 10+ years of experience in motion design within a creative agency, design studio, or scaled in-house brand team

  • An exceptional portfolio demonstrating motion design across brand, campaign, and digital work

  • Strong foundation in design, with the ability to contribute to broader visual systems beyond motion

  • Experience working across a wide range of formats, including social, digital, video, OOH, and experiential

  • Proven experience building motion templates, toolkits, or systems that support high-volume production

  • Experience managing and directing external vendors and agency partners

  • Proficiency in After Effects, Premiere, Cinema 4D, Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite; familiarity with scalable production workflows

  • Strong collaboration skills with experience working across cross-functional teams

  • Ability to move fluidly between concept development and hands-on execution

  • Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills

  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving workflows in a fast-paced environment

  • A hands-on designer who can contribute directly to the work while helping shape how motion is executed at scale

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $198,000.00 - $310,000.00.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits here.

About Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American media company founded on August 29, 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, and currently based in Los Gatos, California, with production offices and stages at the Los Angeles-based Hollywood studios (formerly old Warner Brothers studios) and the Albuquerque Studios (formerly ABQ studios). It operates an eponymous over-the-top subscription video on-demand service, which showcases acquired and original programming as well as third-party content licensed from other production companies and distributors. Netflix is also the first streaming media company to be a member of the Motion Picture Association.
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$2.7 billion
Founded
1997
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