Motion Designer (Freelance) at DEPT® in Toronto; Canada
- Company: DEPT®
- Location: Toronto; Canada
- Posted: Sep 23, 2026
- Type: Freelance
- Experience: 3+ years
Overview
Please note: This is a short-term freelance contract opportunity. As a Motion Designer, you will create engaging animations and static designs for global campaigns, collaborating with a creative team to deliver high-quality work. You will contribute to projects from concept to delivery, ensuring bot…
Job description
- Please note: This is a short-term freelance contract opportunity.
- As a Motion Designer, you will create engaging animations and static designs for global campaigns, collaborating with a creative team to deliver high-quality work. You will contribute to projects from concept to delivery, ensuring both creative excellence and technical precision.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the team to understand project requirements and deliver motion graphics, typography, and video animations. Comfort with static design is a plus.
- Work within templates while maintaining creative freedom, ensuring organized and efficient files.
- Bring storyboards to life using After Effects, managing assets and meeting deadlines.
- Align designs with trends and culture across various platforms and formats.
- Stay up-to-date with design trends and integrate them into your work.
- Use Figma for storyboarding concepts and After Effects for animation, ensuring a smooth workflow.
- Create and modify After Effects templates, including brand templates, and develop new ones as needed.
- Set motion direction for campaigns, balancing template-based and conceptual work.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in motion/graphic design.
- Strong portfolio with completed animation projects.
- Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator).
- Experience in animating vector, photographic, and 3D assets.
- Solid video editing skills and understanding of animation fundamentals.
- Strong design aesthetic with the ability to combine typography, color, and layout.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and time-management skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
- Comfortable working on digital advertisements, including paid ads and stories.
Skills
Required
- Motion design
- Graphic design
- Animation
- Video editing
- Typography
- Color
- Layout
- Organizational skills
- Communication skills
- Time-management skills
- Ability to work independently
- Teamwork
Preferred
- Static design
- Figma
About DEPT®
DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021. We are pioneers at heart. What does that mean? We are always looking forward, thinking of what we can create tomorrow that does not exist today. We were born digital and we are a new model of agency, with a deep skillset in tech and marketing. That’s why we hire curious, self-driven, talented people who never stop innovating. Our culture is big enough to cope and small enough to care. Meaning, that with people across 30+ countries, we’re big enough to provide you with the best tools, global opportunities, and benefits that help you thrive. While acting small by investing in you, your growth, your team, and giving you the autonomy to solve our clients problems, no matter where you are in the world. DEPT® is committed to making a positive impact on the planet and since 2021 has been Climate Neutral and B Corporation certified.