Senior Motion Designer, Emerging Creative

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

The Role

At ECXD (Emerging Creative Experience Design), our mission is to craft multimedia experiences that blend motion, audio, visuals, and storytelling to amplify Netflix’s brand, drive innovation, and inspire meaningful connections with global audiences and partners.

We specialize in interaction, animation, cinematic UX, and engaging content-forward interfaces, working horizontally across products and platforms to create performant, intuitive, and delightful user experiences that immerse users, effectively convey information, and foster connections between Netflix, members, soon-to-be members, and B2B partners.

As a Senior Motion Designer, you will define how Netflix moves and sounds, exploring how animation, pacing, and audio enhance interaction, guide attention, and create emotional impact across all platforms. 

Your Impact:

• Define and evolve motion and audiovisual language across product surfaces, spanning member and nonmember experiences.

• Prototype and deliver expressive, high-impact animations that bring interfaces to life.

• Partner with UX and Product teams to integrate motion into user experiences.

• Produce high-fidelity motion studies, vision videos, and storytelling artifacts.

• Build scalable motion systems, templates, and tooling for cross-product adoption.

• Ensure technical feasibility and fidelity in collaboration with Engineering and AV teams.

• Guide creative execution with external contractors and agencies when needed.

• Mentor peers and guide creative alignment across teams.

• Deliver a variety of artifacts and storytelling mediums, including promotional concepts, vision videos, and interactive prototypes.
   

Must have:

•  Mastery of motion design, timing, and visual rhythm in interactive or narrative contexts.

• Strong sense of cinematic storytelling and audiovisual craft.

• Strong cross-discipline partnership skills, able to see the big picture strategically, bring pieces together, and drive clarity through ambiguity.

• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams including UX, product, design, and audio.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills for articulating design decisions and strategy.

• Proactive and self-starting, able to uncover and propose solutions independently.

• Ability to contribute to and influence impactful motion solutions across all phases of the product lifecycle.

Bonus: 

• Cinematic UI, entertainment or gaming branding, or interactive storytelling experience.

• Audio design sensibility to enhance motion

• Real-time prototyping (Unreal, Unity) or generative AI-assisted workflows.

Why You’ll Love It Here

 Netflix is a home for creative excellence. ECXD offers a space where art and technology intersect, giving you freedom to push creative boundaries while shaping the future of multimedia design across the Netflix ecosystem.  

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 $120,000 - $515,000.

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 m