Remote Motion Graphics Designer, Video Editor and Visual Storyteller at IxDF (Interaction Design Foundation)
- Location: Remote
- Job Type: Full-time
About IxDF (Interaction Design Foundation)
We’re the global leader in online design education. That’s because the world’s leading experts create our educational content and because we’re specialized in—and utterly dedicated to—design, and only design.
We’re entering our third decade with over 175,000 graduates. We now need an amazing Motion Graphics Designer, Video Editor and Visual Storyteller to help each individual along their learning journey.
Job Description – Remote Motion Graphics Designer, Video Editor and Visual Storyteller at IxDF
- Are you a passionate visual storyteller with a love for design?
- Do you want to help craft educational design videos that are every bit as high-end as the productions National Geographic create on history, science and culture?
- Do you want to showcase your skills in every frame while conveying powerful ideas to thousands of minds daily?
- That’s a big audience, which is why we’re looking for serious talent.
What you’ll do as a Remote Motion Graphics Designer, Video Editor and Visual Storyteller at IxDF
- Take on the job role as a Motion Graphics Designer, Video Editor and Visual Storyteller.
- Develop cutting-edge UX/UI design courses and open-source content that empower designers around the world.
- Help push the quality of our educational materials to new heights—exceeding the very best in both industry and academia.
- Use your skills to help your colleagues grow and become better motion graphics designers and video editors; just as they’ll help you.
- Edit, export and produce content to the highest standard.
- Use your motion graphics design and visual storytelling skills to create engaging visual content (both static and dynamic) that communicates key learning take aways, and helps engage and attract an audience across our social media channels.
- Create social media content such as carousels, illustrations, animations and short video snippets for our social media channels.
- Create didactical educational visual media to illustrate written content and articles.
- Create and adapt videos, illustrations and animations for use on our website and advertising campaigns.
- Collaborate closely with our Editorial team as well as our Growth and Social Media teams.
- Support our social media team and bring your expertise to all dimensions of our content, marketing and communication.
- Find creative solutions to make content work across different platforms.
- Use your expertise to create inspiring Master Class videos featuring leaders in design.
Requirements – Remote Motion Graphics Designer, Video Editor and Visual Storyteller at IxDF
- You’ve worked as a professional full-time video editor for at least 5 years.
- You can create engaging motion graphics and animations that intelligently and beautifully enhance your video production.
- You have solid practical experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro to edit raw videos and do basic post-production work, and in Adobe After Effects for advanced editing and animating motion graphics.
- You’re fluent in working with imported or exported raster and vector images using tools such as Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. You know how to use your assets from Adobe Illustrator in Adobe After Effects and vice versa.
- You can push video learning ‘one step beyond’, so your edits, animations, on-screen text and other visual effects work in perfect harmony to complement each instructor’s material and inspire the viewer to continue learning.
- You use the latest AI tools to perfect and improve not only the quality of videos, but the workflow and efficiency of delivering projects.
- You’re a team player with proven collaborative experience on team projects. At the same time, you can work independently and deliver results because you’re intrinsically motivated.
- You’re attentive to details in everything you do
- You understand the importance of a return on investment. You know how to find the balance between the efforts you put into a project and the results you get from it.
- You can place an entire, self-contained learning reality right in the mind of each viewer so all they have to do is watch and learn.
- You have a love affair with the world of storytelling in film and a desire to impress viewers through every frame of the journey.
- You know visual storytelling is more than the sum of its parts, and the overall effect is vital.
- Catching glitches and other imperfections such as lighting and audio-related issues come easy to you. You cringe at the idea of even the smallest rough edge creeping in to ruin a frame or make a transition jerky.
- You love an environment of striving—and stretching—for perfection. You’re supremely competent and confident in working independently to produce the best material with a deep appreciation and clear vision of what a perfect product should be.