Scout Motors
Senior Visual Designer (Art Director/Motion)
Job Summary
Scout Motors is seeking a Senior Visual Designer to shape the creative voice of a new automotive brand, focusing on brand design, motion, and storytelling across multiple channels. The role involves lead creative direction, hands-on design, animation, and the development of visual systems for digital and physical platforms. Candidates should have extensive experience in motion design, video editing, and visual branding, with a strong portfolio and proficiency in industry-standard tools. The position offers an opportunity to build iconic brand assets, collaborate across disciplines, and contribute to the company's innovative approach to transportation.
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Benefits
Job Description
Here at Scout Motors, we're carrying forward the heritage of one of the most iconic American vehicles in history. A vehicle dating back to 1960. One that forged the path for future generations of rugged SUVs and will do so once again.
But Scout is more than just a brand, it’s a legacy steeped in a culture of exploration, caretaking, and hard work.
The Scout brand is all about respect. Respect for the environment by developing electric vehicles with the capability to get you to any location. Respect for the past and the future by taking an iconic American brand that hasn’t been around for a while, electrifying it, digitizing it, and loading it with American innovation. Respect for communities by creating a company that stands for its people and its customers. And respect for both work and play, with vehicles that are equally at home at a camp site, a job site, or on a Tuesday commute.
At Scout Motors, we empower our talented, inclusive, and entrepreneurial teams to innovate. What makes a Scout employee? Someone who is a visionary and a leader, who seeks new paths and shares lessons learned. A knowledgeable doer who collaborates across the company to build better. A go-getter with unrivaled passion.
Join us at Scout Motors and be part of shaping the future of transportation. If you're ready to drive change and make history, apply now!
About the Role
This is a rare opportunity to help define the creative voice of a bold new automotive brand. We’re looking for a Senior Visual Designer to lead concept development and hands-on execution across brand design, motion, and storytelling. This hybrid role is ideal for a craft-driven art director with deep motion design experience and a strong visual design foundation. You’ll bring campaigns, digital content, and brand experiences to life—from concept to final delivery—through motion, video, and visual systems that scale across channels. You’ll collaborate closely with marketing, digital product, vehicle design, and environmental teams to shape a unified brand across every touchpoint. You should thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, with the confidence to own your creative lane while contributing across a multidisciplinary team.
What you’ll do
Help build an iconic American brand from the ground up:
- Lead creative direction and hands-on design for all types of brand experiences, campaigns, and content
- Design and animate across formats—web, events, film, presentations, social, and product
- Build scalable motion systems and toolkits that drive brand storytelling
- Edit and assemble video content
- Collaborate across design, product, marketing, environmental, and agency partners to deliver cohesive creative
- Translate brand and marketing strategy into expressive, high-quality visual outputs
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver best-in-class motion and design assets with a high level of craft and consistency
- Evolve the brand identity through motion, composition, typography, layout, and systems
- Maintain and expand toolkits—templates, guides, animation specs, and design systems
- Partner with internal teams and agencies to produce on-brand creative
- Manage multiple projects independently with speed, clarity, and attention to detail
Location & Travel Expectations:
- This role will be remote within the United States. This role is not eligible for remote work in New York City.
- Applicants should expect that the role will require the ability to convene with Scout colleagues in person and travel to participate in events on behalf of the company from time to time.
What you’ll bring
You have a passion for creating bold, expressive brand work grounded in strategy and executed with craft. You’re comfortable with ambiguity, thrive in fast-paced environments, and are collaborative by nature. Here's what else you'll bring:
- A strong portfolio showcasing high-impact motion design, video editing, and visual brand design across a variety of formats
- 8+ years of professional experience in graphic or visual design
- 5 + years of experience in motion design
- Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Figma, and common motion design workflows
- Experience creating visuals for web, product, social, events, and campaigns
- Proficiency in video editing, animation, transitions, and assembling narrative content
- Familiarity with AI-powered creative tools and workflows in the motion or video space
- Strong communicator who can present ideas clearly and take feedback constructively
- Experience working across disciplines
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing brand-aligned motion systems or toolkits
- Background in startup, in-house, and/or integrated agency environments
- Experience with 3D CAD and interaction/UX design
- Comfort with fast iteration, evolving priorities, and collaborative feedback loops
What you'll gain
The benefits of joining Scout include the chance to build products and a company from the ground up. This is a chance to create something new and lasting – with an iconic brand at its foundation. In addition, Scout provides competitive compensation and benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing. Program specifics are detailed in company policies and employee benefit guides, select highlights:
- Competitive insurance including:
- Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
- 401(k) program with:
- An employer match and immediate vesting
- Generous Paid Time Off including:
- 20 days planned PTO, as accrued
- 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
- Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave
Pay Transparency
This is a full-time, exempt position eligible to receive a base salary and to participate in an annual performance bonus program. Final salary offered will be determined based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience. The annual performance bonus program is preset and not candidate dependent.
Initial base salary range = $140,000.00 - $155,000.00
Internal leveling code: IC8
Notice to applicants:
- Residing in San Francisco: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Scout Motors will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- Residing in Los Angeles: Scout Motors will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
- Residing in New York City: This role is not eligible for remote work in New York City.
Equal Opportunity
Scout Motors is committed to employing a diverse workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, or any other characteristics protected by law. Scout Motors is committed to compliance with all applicable fair employment practice laws. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact [email protected].
Scout Motors
We're designing, engineering, and building the next generation of electric trucks and rugged SUVs for the doers, makers, and explorers. The new Scout® Traveler™ and Terra™ models are here, born from the original legend, retooled for a new era.
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