[Hiring] Motion Design Technologist @StackAdapt

Role Description

As an engineer at StackAdapt, you’ll build production-level software that directly impacts our advertising platform. You’ll work with modern stacks across Go, Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, and more. Our engineering org is collaborative, cross-functional, and built around clear growth paths.

About the team

You’ll join the Creatives Platform group—an engineering team responsible for the systems and tooling that power self-serve creative creation and our in-house creative template library.

About the role

We’re hiring a design-led technologist to be a dedicated creative template partner embedded with engineering. The focus is to:

• Collect feedback and design new creative templates across channels, especially motion-heavy formats (Video/DCO).
• Bridge engineering, product, and client-facing teams by identifying creative library gaps and translating them into scalable platform capabilities.

This role is intentionally design + motion forward, with enough technical comfort to produce and iterate on templates directly.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and produce programmatic templates using client assets and/or original concepts, spanning static, animated, and interactive formats.
• Create motion-forward template systems (animation patterns, transitions, reusable motion components) using tools like After Effects / Animate / Google Web Designer (or similar).
• Build and maintain interactive HTML5 templates that work across devices and platforms; troubleshoot layout/behavior issues using HTML5/CSS (and light JavaScript when needed).
• Partner with Engineering / Creative Studio / Product to understand what customers struggle to create, then translate insights into:
• New template concepts and reusable patterns for our in-house creative library.
• Platform/library capability gaps for engineer and designer to build together (e.g., missing building blocks, controls, animation features, workflows).
• Develop ads creative best practices across channels and industries, and work with the team to apply vertical-specific creative strategies and patterns to inform template design.
• Participate in select customer/CS discussions to validate requirements and ensure templates solve real problems.
• Own quality checks (visual polish, specs compliance, responsiveness, accessibility considerations where applicable, and functional testing).
• Improve template workflows through standards (naming, structure, components), documentation, and experimentation with better tooling—including AI-assisted workflows where helpful.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a motion/visual designer (or equivalent portfolio-based experience).
• A portfolio showing strong digital advertising craft across display / social / web (motion work required; interactive is a plus).
• Intermediate+ motion/animation skills and strong visual design fundamentals (composition, typography, pacing, brand sensibility).
• Practical experience with HTML5 + CSS, including debugging/troubleshooting interactive creatives.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, especially After Effects; familiarity with Google Web Designer / Animate is a plus.
• Strong collaboration skills: you can translate ambiguous needs into clear template requirements and work effectively with engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience optimizing creative assets for mobile/video environments; familiarity with DOOH and/or native formats.
• Experience with DCO / feed-driven creative or template frameworks.
• Basic video/audio editing experience.
• Hands-on experience applying AI tools (or a strong interest in doing so) to improve creative production workflows.
• Familiarity with Figma, component libraries, or design systems for reusable creative building blocks.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary.
• Retirement/401K/Pension Savings globally.
• Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
• Access to a comprehensive mental health care program.
• Health benefits from day one of employment.
• Work from home reimbursements.
• Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto.
• Robust training and onboarding program.
• Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc).
• Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning.
• An awesome parental leave program.
• A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture.
• Our social and team events!