Motion Graphics Artist

Job Overview

The needs of a global brand aren’t average, and this role isn’t either. You’ll be part of a dynamic, fast-moving team bringing Komatsu’s global brand strategy to life across markets, platforms, and audiences. This is an opportunity to help define how a world-leading company shows up visually, creatively, and consistently around the globe. We’re not just looking for someone to execute briefs; we’re looking for someone who wants to shape what’s next, energized by building, improving, and scaling how great content gets made. 

Key Job Responsibilities

• Design, animate, and edit high-volume motion graphics and video deliverables that bring Komatsu’s global brand to life across campaigns, product stories, and internal/external communications. 
• Use motion and editing craft to position Komatsu as a leader in technology and innovation, translating complex ideas into clear, modern, platform-native stories. 
• Deliver against a high-volume pipeline across multiple concurrent projects; stay comfortable with fast turnarounds, iterative review cycles, and balancing “good enough” vs. polish based on scope and audience. 
• Partner with stakeholders to scope and manage work efficiently, set clear timelines, and keep projects on track while maintaining brand and technical quality standards. 
• Help implement and evolve Komatsu’s design system for motion/video by creating global templates, toolkits and reusable components (e.g. lower-thirds, openers, transitions, title cards) to scale production across regions and vendors. 
• Continuously improve how content gets made on a lean, agile team, building repeatable workflows, leveraging templates, and experimenting with AI-assisted and emerging tools to increase speed and consistency. Design professional-quality graphics and animations from scratch for various creative assignments (e.g., before-and-after explainer animations highlighting a problem and solution, or engaging animated advertisements for digital signage). 
• Develop concepts and story approaches for a wide variety of applications, including digital-first and social content, tailoring creative projects to platform-native storytelling (e.g., LinkedIn vs. YouTube vs. short-form formats such as Reels/Shorts). 
• Edit videos using captured footage and existing assets, producing multiple cut-downs/versions optimized for different channels, aspect ratios, captions and viewing behaviors. 
• Own projects end to end—from kickoff and lightweight storyboards/animatics through edit, review cycles, and final delivery—incorporating feedback quickly and managing expectations on scope, speed, and quality. 
• Collaborate with the global creative team to maintain brand consistency, evolve creative standards, and apply basic performance learnings (where available) to improve future creative. 
• Create and maintain reusable, on-brand global templates and toolkits (e.g., lower thirds, end slates, infographic systems, brand guides) that enable faster, more consistent production across regions and vendors. 

Qualifications/Requirements

• Expert in Adobe Creative Cloud (After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere) with advanced knowledge of 3D design and animation tools (e.g., Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max) 
• Significant knowledge of design fundamentals: Color, design, composition, balance, interaction and motion 
• Strong project management skills 
• Channel fluency and a passion for staying on top of platforms, formats and technologies (e.g., LinkedIn, YouTube, short-form video), with the ability to create platform-optimized content. 
• Familiarity with AI-assisted creative tools and workflows (for ideation, storyboarding, rough cuts, and automation), with a willingness to experiment, learn quickly, and adopt new technologies to improve speed and creative output within brand guidelines. 
• Effective written and oral skills coupled with business know-how to navigate in a large organization 
• Self-starter who is user-focused, detail-oriented, and solutions-oriented 
• Proficient in QC best practices 
• Thorough understanding of design and motion graphics animation 
• Strong organizational skills, focused under pressure and ability to manage to tight deadlines
• Portfolio expectations: Demonstrates strong storytelling through motion and shows both range and consistency across work (brand, campaign, social, product or internal communications). 

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