Staff Motion Designer

About BILL
At BILL, we believe in empowering the businesses that drive our economy. By replacing outdated financial processes with innovative tools, we help businesses—from startups to established brands—make smarter decisions and gain control of their operations. And we don’t stop there: we’re creating the future of financial automation so businesses can spend more time on what matters.

Staff Motion Designer
Reporting to the Creative Director, a Staff Motion Designer at BILL is responsible for bringing the brand to life by leading the development, usage, and evolution of the motion discipline at BILL. This includes foundational work streams such as brand standards, motion style guides, and templates, and delivering high-bar motion work for marketing assets across digital experiences, hype videos, educational content, campaigns, email marketing, events, and more. A Staff Motion Designer contributes to strategic creative briefs, seeks information from stakeholders, determines design approaches, and coordinates contributions from design team members.

Additionally, Staff Motion Designers proactively analyze work methods and business constraints, propose and drive programs and processes that reduce operational redundancies and drive the Marketing organization’s strategic goals. They network and conduct cross‑team share‑outs to help others understand how motion discipline contributes to business goals, mentor across creative disciplines, and foster a design culture of excellence and growth.

Key Responsibilities Include

Act autonomously as a creative lead throughout fast‑paced creative workflows to deliver high-bar and impactful creative marketing assets, while balancing business needs with technical and creative constraints.

Interpret and contribute to strategic briefs, evaluating and proposing creative approaches inline with business needs, propose design and motion solutions, iterate execution inline with stakeholder feedback, finalize and deliver creative assets.

Present work, logic and feedback professionally to senior leadership and stakeholders, explaining priorities and conveying conclusions and ideas.

Maintain and share up‑to‑date expertise and best‑practices relevant to common workstreams, seeking information from stakeholders.

Anticipate, flag, and propose solutions to avoid potential bottlenecks, and communicate project status with Project Managers regularly.

Establish mechanisms to actively maintain relationships with cross‑functional teams to better understand their collaboration needs, concerns, and roadmaps.

Manage and iteratively improve creative approaches, elevating personal and team creative bar, identifying improvement areas and developing tools for better output.

Manage personal career development, set quarterly goals, seek feedback, and identify stretch opportunities.

Qualifications

7+ years of proven impact: a track record of high‑level motion design expertise transforming complex ideas into compelling visual narratives.

A deep understanding of core motion design principles, editing, compositing, UI/UX and strong design fundamentals: form, color, composition, layout, and typography.

Mastery of craft: proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud (After Effects, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop), Figma, and Lottie; 3D proficiency (Cinema 4D / Blender) and experience with creative AI workflows are a plus.

Visa Sponsorship: This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must have authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Salary
San Jose (San Jose based role): $117,400—$146,800 USD per year.

Draper, UT: $99,800—$124,700 USD per year.

Zone 1 (San Francisco Bay Area CA, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles County): $117,400—$146,800 USD.

Zone 2 (California outside Bay Area, Austin TX, Massachusetts): $105,600—$132,000 USD.

Zone 3 (Utah, Houston TX, Florida, North Carolina): $99,800—$124,700 USD.

Role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, flexible spending & health savings account, paid holidays, paid time off, and other company benefits. San Jose and Draper locations also have a bonus and equity plan.

Benefits

100% paid employee health, dental, and vision plans (choose HMO, PPO, or HDHP).

HSA & FSA accounts.

Life insurance, long & short‑term disability coverage.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

11+ observed holidays, wellness days and flexible time off.

Employee Stock Purchase Program with employee discounts.

Wellness & fitness initiatives.

Employee recognition and referral programs.

Equal Opportunity Employer
BILL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe our best ideas come from the unique stories, perspectives, and experiences of our team members. We welcome people of all backgrounds, abilities, and identities to bring their authentic selves and contribute to our culture.

Accommodations
If you need accommodations at any stage, please contact interviewaccommodations@hq.bill.com.

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