Technical Motion Designer

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Hiring Remotely in South Africa
Remote
Entry level
Marketing Tech • Software • Automation
The Role
As a Technical Motion Designer, you will develop dynamic After Effects projects, solve technical problems, prepare assets, ensure quality, document workflows, collaborate with teams, and support clients while continuously learning new tools.
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About the Role

As a Technical Motion Designer (TMD) at Storyteq, you’ll work at the intersection of design, technology, and automation. Your job is to take creative assets from global brands and transform them into scalable, dynamic templates that can be rolled out across markets, formats, and languages. This role combines motion design expertise with technical problem-solving. You’ll need to be comfortable working in After Effects and the Adobe suite, while also applying logic, scripting, and data-driven workflows to automate creative production.

What You’ll Do

• Template Development: Build dynamic After Effects projects and automationready creative templates.

• Technical Problem Solving: Use scripting, expressions, and data-driven setups (e.g. CSV/JSON) to create scalable solutions.

• Asset Preparation: Adapt and optimize creative files from Photoshop, Illustrator, or Figma for use in automation workflows.

• Quality Control: Test thoroughly, debug render issues, and ensure templates are reliable and well-organized.

• Documentation & Handover: Keep files structured, write clear documentation, and make handovers easy for colleagues.

• Collaboration: Work closely with Project Managers, Account Managers, and other designers to deliver on client needs.

• Client Support: Occasionally explain workflows, requirements, and logic to clients in a clear and accessible way.

• Continuous Learning: Stay curious, learn new tools, and share knowledge with the team.


Requirements

What We’re Looking For

Required Skills

• Strong Adobe After Effects skills (expressions, parenting, render optimization, template structuring).

• Proficiency with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

• Ability to script in basic ExtendScript.

• Basic understanding of data-driven animation (CSV/JSON).

• Strong organization, documentation, and time-management skills.

• Excellent English communication (written, verbal, and visual).

Nice to Have:

• Figma skills (for asset adaptation).

• Ability to develop in JavaScript.

• Familiarity with HTML/CSS.

• Experience with web-based creative automation tools or templating platforms.

• Understanding of digital media production and file formats.

Soft Skills That Matter

• Ownership and accountability - you deliver what you promise.

• Collaboration and teamwork - you’re stronger together.

• Problem-solving mindset with attention to detail.

• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects.

• Curiosity and growth mindset - always learning, always improving.

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The Company
HQ: Amsterdam
166 Employees

What We Do

Storyteq is a global marketing technology solution, built to automate manual production processes and empower brands to create more engaging, agile marketing content, faster than ever before. Our Content Marketing Platform (CMP) was named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Content Marketing Platforms in both 2023 and 2024. Storyteq CMP unifies teams, partners and processes on a single system of record, driving efficiency throughout the marketing operations of our clients. With businesses needing to produce more content, often with less budget and resource, Storyteq harnesses Content Automation (CA) to do so at pace and scale. It enables the instant production of multichannel, agile content that’s localised, highly engaging and designed to enhance business growth. Major brands including Heineken, ASOS, Mentos, Renault, McArthurGlen, Haleon and many more trust Storyteq to simplify the complicated across their marketing.

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