Senior Motion Designer

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Position Overview
The vision for our global Marketing Creative Team at Zynga is informed by an aggressive pursuit of new and different ideas, rapid creative development, and efficient production. We develop creative executions across digital marketing channels that invite millions of players worldwide to take part in our games. We prioritize achieving both performance objectives and execution excellence while fostering a collaborative culture that embraces and drives creative trends in the mobile marketing & acquisition space.

As a Senior Motion Graphic Designer on Zynga's Marketing Creative team, you will be responsible for designing motion/video advertisements for Zynga's game titles. The ideal candidate should be able to work independently to generate a variety of creative executions inspired by a central selling point to engage a target audience.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to an efficient, high-volume pipeline of User Acquisition advertising, App Store, and live-ops marketing assets
• Work with the Art Lead, Art Director, and Producer to generate video marketing content that translates campaign goals and performs against KPIs.
• Address and integrate creative feedback to ensure projects meet a successful result
• Ability to develop and execute a 10-30 sec ad using creative assets and resources on hand within a 2-3 day timeframe; deliver on time or ahead of schedule
• Engage in creative brainstorming, design retrospectives, and constructive feedback sessions; openly share in group settings to foster a culture of creativity & collaboration
• Create engaging animations and transitions to communicate creative ideas to a mass audience using Adobe CC and other industry-standard tools.
• Adapt to different requirements within a short period, understand the production pipeline, and foster quick turnaround deliverables.
• Able to find creative/technical solutions on a case-to-case basis
• Continually learn and seek to refine your craft and artistic skill set
• Mentor young designers toward creative success
• Seek new technological advancement and bring in the same to facilitate production
• Develop/contribute to new production pipelines from past experience/learning
• Templatize work for wider use within the motion team
• Studying competitor's work and analyzing the same for design strategies
• Driving meaningful sessions related to motion/design/video
• Absorbing multiple design/motion styles & approaches resulting in simultaneous production support for multiple titles

What You Bring

• At least 8-10 years of professional experience developing and executing video creatives
• Strong ad production skills - Video/sound editing experience, compositing and efficient asset and time management
• Superior knowledge of Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Audition along with good knowledge of Photoshop/Illustrator
• Excellent grip on design and animation principles
• Strong conceptual and visual design skills leading to thoughtful creative executions
• Confident working in an extremely fast-paced environment with multiple projects and quick turn-around ensuring minimum quality loss
• Decent understanding of consumer-facing ad experiences on social ad platforms (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube) and general performance marketing methods.
• Decent understanding of the nuances of creating video assets for the iOS and Google Play storefronts.
• An ability to manage multiple deadlines and thrive under pressure
• Great communication skills and a team-first attitude
• Strong understanding of 3D pipeline along with good lighting, HDR, rendering, look & feel development skills.
• Excellent fundamental skills of strong storytelling with logical editing & camera animation
• Good understanding of 3D organic animation and generic Unreal pipeline
• Should have a decent understanding of Ae expressions & logic
• Thorough understanding of Trapcode suite, Red Giant Plugins, Element 3D, Optical Flares, and other industry plugins
• Strong graphic design skill is a plus
• Good knowledge specifically on Unity, Maya & C4D is a plus

What We Offer You
Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits

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