Division: Product Crew
Location: UK, Europe OR US/EST (Distant)
Sort: FTC (Fastened-Time period Contract) OR Freelance
Nexus Studios is a world inventive studio working with award successful administrators throughout animation, clever live-action and immersive to redefine the boundaries of leisure. Our work has obtained accolades from BAFTA, Emmy, Grammy, Annie and Academy Awards, Cannes Grand Prix and we had been essentially the most awarded UK manufacturing firm at Cannes Lions in 2022. We work with the world’s main cultural manufacturers and have a deep rooted historical past in innovation, XR and crafted storytelling.
We’re hiring a Senior Movement Designer to guide the event of a movement system that lives on the coronary heart of each our model and product expertise.
This position is about constructing a movement language that’s expressive, intentional, and systematized—one thing that not solely brings the model to life in storytelling and campaigns, however instantly informs how the product feels to make use of. You’ll outline how issues transfer, reply, transition, and behave throughout screens, environments, and contexts. What you create will present up in every single place: in movies, apps, interactions, and the working system of the model itself.
You’ll work intently with model designers, UX groups, and engineers to form a unified movement system—one which feels considerate, emotive, and dynamic, however at all times useful. It is a pivotal position that requires craft, readability, and a deep understanding of how design techniques work throughout mediums.
Necessities
What you’ll do:
- Outline movement rules and behaviors that join model id to product interplay.
- Create foundational research and movement libraries that information every part from brand animation to in-app microinteractions.
- Prototype movement throughout key use instances—narrative, UI, social, movie, and spatial/digital environments.
- Collaborate throughout disciplines (model, UX, dev, movie, spatial) to make sure consistency and readability in execution.
- Construct repeatable techniques, however know when to interrupt the principles to make one thing really feel particular.
What we’re in search of:
- 8–12 years of expertise in model design, movement techniques, or interplay design.
- A portfolio that reveals movement techniques in motion throughout model and/or product environments.
- A perspective on how movement can construct emotional connection and value in digital areas.
- Robust After Results and Figma abilities, with working data of prototyping instruments like Precept, Lottie, Framer, and so forth.
- Stable understanding of timing, rhythm, and animation logic—particularly in interface or system design.
- Expertise working in design-forward studios or model environments (e.g. COLLINS, Pentagram, The New Firm, Porto Rocha, and so forth.).
Good to have:
- Expertise with 3D, real-time engines (Unreal, Notch) or spatial design instruments.
- Familiarity with code-based inventive platforms like Processing, p5.js, TouchDesigner, or Houdini.
- Consolation working with inventive builders and engineers to deliver movement into product environments.
Advantages
It is a Nexus-led position, embedded in a extremely collaborative, partner-facing growth setting. You’ll assist form the best way followers expertise sports activities in XR—from how they press play to how they management, discover, and really feel a part of the motion.
In the event you’re enthusiastic about constructing the way forward for fan engagement by means of sensible, human-centered design—we’d love to speak.
Nexus Studios is proud to work with extraordinary expertise as an equal alternative employer. We embrace people of all backgrounds no matter gender, race, age, skills or sexual preferences. Our recruitment course of is merit-based, making certain truthful remedy to each applicant.
In regards to the firm
Nexus Studios is a world inventive studio working with award successful administrators throughout animation, clever live-action and immersive to redefine the boundaries of leisure. Our work has obtained accolades from BAFTA, Emmy, Grammy, Academy Awards to call a number of. We work with the world’s main cultural manufacturers and have a deep rooted historical past in innovation, XR and crafted storytelling.