Senior Motion Designer – Web & Mobile Apps, Advanced Team

General Motors • Sunnyvale, CA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Motion Designer within the HID Advanced Team, you will define how motion brings GM’s digital experiences to life across web, app, and emerging platforms. This is a senior individual contributor role where craft is strategy — your motion systems, interaction behaviors, and visual language will shape how customers perceive and experience GM products. You will operate at the intersection of design, technology, and storytelling — creating motion frameworks that scale across platforms while pushing the boundaries of visual innovation. From real-time rendering to procedural systems and physics-based simulations, your work will elevate the emotional resonance and performance of GM’s digital ecosystem. Beyond execution, you will act as a craft leader — setting standards for motion excellence, mentoring designers, and influencing product direction through the clarity and sophistication of your work.

Requirements

• 7+ years experience in node-based animation, motion graphics, VFX, compositing and 3D.
• Strong fundamentals in physics-based animation and simulation theory.
• Experience in building sophisticated particles, fluid and dynamic data-driven simulations using Houdini, Maya or similar software/tools.
• Experience with Python or similar scripting
• Proficiency in After Effects, Maya, Cinema 4D, or other 3D software.
• Proficiency in one of the rendering engines like Octane, Arnold, RedShift.
• Ability to translate creative intent into robust procedural systems.
• Good foundation and understanding of animation principles.
• Excellent collaborative skills.
• Highly professional, with the ability to deliver solid work on tight schedules and work independently with little directions.
• Effective time management with an ability to spearhead multiple projects and work independently.

Nice To Haves

• Passionate and curious about pushing graphical boundaries and experimenting with new visual languages and AI generative tools
• Knowledge of GPU-driven visuals, custom rendering pipelines, and/or novel graphical techniques
• Experience in building VFX which are optimized for real-time engine deployment.
• Understanding of shader programming and real-time rendering pipelines a plus.
• Experience with Design in web, mobile UI and prototyping is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and produce advanced motion graphics, procedural animations, particle systems, and simulations.
• Build dynamic, data-driven visuals using tools such as Houdini, Maya, Cinema 4D, or similar.
• Prototype and deliver motion optimized for real-time deployment and performance constraints.
• Explore emerging technologies including GPU-driven visuals, AI- generated motion, custom shaders, and novel rendering techniques.
• Experiment with new visual languages that differentiate GM’s digital presence.
• Balance expressive ambition with accessibility, inclusivity, and usability standards.
• Elevate the overall bar for visual quality, interaction refinement, and brand expression across the organization.

Benefits

• GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed