Overview /Objective

The NFL Creative LA team is seeking a designer-animator to design and animate graphics and other design-based assets supporting shows, events, special programming or emerging platforms. This work involves a combination of creating unique designs and animations and iterating and expanding on existing style guides and toolkits, under the direction a team of an Art Director and Creative Producer.

Responsibilities

• Design and animate content for the various groups serviced by NFL Creative LA.
• Be able to work with deadlines that can be as short as same-day, leveraging existing toolkits or unique assets, with the guidance of the project’s art director and creative producer, to deliver on time.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience working in the design-animation field.
• Proficient knowledge Adobe After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator. A working knowledge of C4D (preferably Octane render engine). Proficiency may be required, based on the job placement.
• Ability to develop custom designs and animations that derive from style guides, existing graphics packages and/or references provided by art directors.
• Ability to adhere to communicated file naming conventions and shared organizational guidelines.
• Able to accommodate non-standard work hours, holidays and weekends as needed.

Other Key Attributes / Characteristics

• Proactive, detail oriented, organized, and accountable, with the ability to perform in a highly collaborative setting.
• Confidence in a fast-paced environment
• Flexibility when faced with new information, needs or challenges
• Ability to ask questions and communicate with art directors and creative producers when uncertain a current assignment or when ready for the next one.
• Willingness to invest in understanding the business of the NFL to better support and enhance how the League serves our clubs and engages our fans.
  

Physical Demands

• None

Travel

• None

Salary / Pay Range

• This job posting contains a pay range, which represents the range of salaries or hourly rates that the NFL believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting that it might be willing to pay for the posted job in the location(s) specified. The NFL expects to hire for this position near the middle of the range. Only in truly rare and exceptional circumstances, where an external candidate has experience, credentials or expertise that far exceed those required or expected for the position, would the NFL consider paying a salary or rate near the higher end of the range.

Terms / Expected Hours of Work

• NFL employees are required to work 40 hours per week. Indicate whether or not the role will require overtime (time worked in excess of 40 hours) and/or weekends. Note* If your position will work under 30 hours per week, they should be Part Time. FLSA** If an employee will be paid hourly, they will be non-exempt, and if they are paid a salary, they are exempt.
• [IF EXTERNAL AGENCY] This job posting is for a position with one of the NFL’s third-party agency partners that provides services to the NFL. The individual selected for this role will be an employee of that third-party agency and not the NFL. All compensation, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment are handled by the agency. The assignment to provide services to the NFL will be limited in duration but may be extended for an additional period by agreement between the NFL and the agency.

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