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Senior Motion Designer roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process, where your employer documents that no equally qualified U.S. worker is available. Production studios, agencies, and in-house creative teams regularly sponsor foreign motion designers, making this one of the more accessible creative-discipline paths to permanent U.S. residency.
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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Senior Motion Designer, you will lead the creation of high-impact, platform-native video content across all social channels while helping define the motion language for the brand’s social presence. This role combines hands-on craft with creative leadership, guiding concept development, motion systems, and editorial direction for social-first storytelling. You understand how content performs in-feed and how to capture attention instantly, but you also think beyond individual posts to shape scalable creative approaches across channels. You bring exceptional motion design craft, strong editorial instincts, and a deep understanding of platform culture. You move quickly without sacrificing quality, mentor other designers, and help elevate the creative bar across the team.
You Will
- Lead the concepting, design, editing, and animation of social-first video content across platforms including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
- Define and evolve the motion design language for social, ensuring consistency while allowing flexibility for platform-native execution.
- Develop scalable motion systems, templates, and graphic frameworks that enable the team to produce high-quality content at speed.
- Partner with art directors, copywriters, and marketing leads to translate campaign goals into compelling motion-driven storytelling.
- Mentor and provide feedback to junior designers, helping elevate craft, storytelling, and execution across the team.
- Apply advanced motion graphics, typography, sound design, and editorial techniques to maximize clarity, pacing, and engagement.
- Identify emerging platform trends and translate them into creative opportunities that align with brand strategy.
- Ensure deliverables meet platform specifications while maintaining a high standard of craft and brand consistency.
- Help refine workflows and creative processes that support high-volume production without sacrificing quality.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of professional experience in motion design, video editing, or social-first content creation.
- A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional motion craft and a strong understanding of short-form storytelling.
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Premiere and After Effects, with advanced knowledge of the broader Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem.
- Deep understanding of motion fundamentals including timing, pacing, hierarchy, typography, and composition.
- Extensive experience creating content optimized for vertical and mobile-first viewing environments.
- Strong understanding of platform behaviors, trends, and audience expectations across major social channels.
- Advanced editorial instincts including pacing, music selection, and sound design.
- Experience developing motion systems, templates, or toolkits that enable scalable content production.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to lead creative discussions and mentor other designers.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.
COMPENSATION
For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.
- Annual Salary Range: $184,820—$230,660 USD
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.
INTRODUCTION
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Senior Motion Designer, you will lead the creation of high-impact, platform-native video content across all social channels while helping define the motion language for the brand’s social presence. This role combines hands-on craft with creative leadership, guiding concept development, motion systems, and editorial direction for social-first storytelling. You understand how content performs in-feed and how to capture attention instantly, but you also think beyond individual posts to shape scalable creative approaches across channels. You bring exceptional motion design craft, strong editorial instincts, and a deep understanding of platform culture. You move quickly without sacrificing quality, mentor other designers, and help elevate the creative bar across the team.
You Will
- Lead the concepting, design, editing, and animation of social-first video content across platforms including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
- Define and evolve the motion design language for social, ensuring consistency while allowing flexibility for platform-native execution.
- Develop scalable motion systems, templates, and graphic frameworks that enable the team to produce high-quality content at speed.
- Partner with art directors, copywriters, and marketing leads to translate campaign goals into compelling motion-driven storytelling.
- Mentor and provide feedback to junior designers, helping elevate craft, storytelling, and execution across the team.
- Apply advanced motion graphics, typography, sound design, and editorial techniques to maximize clarity, pacing, and engagement.
- Identify emerging platform trends and translate them into creative opportunities that align with brand strategy.
- Ensure deliverables meet platform specifications while maintaining a high standard of craft and brand consistency.
- Help refine workflows and creative processes that support high-volume production without sacrificing quality.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of professional experience in motion design, video editing, or social-first content creation.
- A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional motion craft and a strong understanding of short-form storytelling.
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Premiere and After Effects, with advanced knowledge of the broader Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem.
- Deep understanding of motion fundamentals including timing, pacing, hierarchy, typography, and composition.
- Extensive experience creating content optimized for vertical and mobile-first viewing environments.
- Strong understanding of platform behaviors, trends, and audience expectations across major social channels.
- Advanced editorial instincts including pacing, music selection, and sound design.
- Experience developing motion systems, templates, or toolkits that enable scalable content production.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to lead creative discussions and mentor other designers.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.
COMPENSATION
For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.
- Annual Salary Range: $184,820—$230,660 USD
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Senior Motion Designer
Align your portfolio to specialty occupation standards
PERM requires your role to demand a specific bachelor's degree field, not just creative talent. Structure your portfolio around projects that demonstrate specialized motion design systems work, not generalist output, so your employer can document the degree-job nexus USCIS requires.
Request a prevailing wage determination before accepting offers
Your employer must file a prevailing wage determination with DOL before submitting PERM. Check the OFLC Wage Search for your job title and metro area so you can negotiate an offer above that threshold upfront and avoid a compliance delay after signing.
Target studios with active PERM filing history
Not every creative employer has run a PERM case before. Focus your search on production companies, broadcast networks, and tech firms with in-house motion teams that have sponsored foreign workers previously. Use Migrate Mate to filter Senior Motion Designer roles by green card sponsorship history.
Understand how EB-2 and EB-3 routing affects your timeline
If your role requires only a bachelor's degree, expect EB-3 classification. EB-2 requires an advanced degree or equivalent. For most countries other than India and China, neither category has a meaningful backlog, so the distinction matters less for wait time than for documenting your qualifications correctly.
Prepare your credential evaluation before employers ask
Foreign design degrees outside a four-year U.S. equivalent require a credential evaluation for PERM. Commission a NACES-member evaluation early so your employer's attorney can confirm EB-2 or EB-3 eligibility during the job description stage, not after the offer letter is signed.
Anticipate the recruitment documentation your employer must complete
PERM obligates your employer to run specific DOL-mandated recruitment steps, including newspaper ads and internal job postings, before filing. Knowing this lets you coach new or hesitant employers through the process and set realistic timelines from offer through I-140 filing.
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Does a Senior Motion Designer role typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Senior Motion Designer positions are filed under EB-3, which covers professionals with a U.S. bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in a relevant field such as graphic design, animation, or fine arts. EB-2 is available if the role genuinely requires an advanced degree or if your employer pursues a National Interest Waiver, though NIW self-petitions are rare in commercial creative work.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for motion designers?
H-1B is a temporary status tied to one employer, subject to annual lottery selection, and must be renewed. PERM-based green card sponsorship permanently ties you to a job offer at the point of filing but leads to lawful permanent residency, with no cap lottery at the EB-3 level for most nationalities. The process takes longer, typically two to four years end to end, but the outcome is permanent status rather than a renewable nonimmigrant visa.
How do I find Senior Motion Designer jobs that include green card sponsorship?
Standard job postings rarely specify PERM willingness, so filtering by sponsorship history is more reliable than reading job descriptions. Migrate Mate lets you search Senior Motion Designer roles and filter specifically for employers with green card sponsorship history, which surfaces studios and companies that have already run PERM cases for creative roles.
What does the PERM process actually require from the employer for a motion design role?
Your employer must obtain a prevailing wage determination from DOL, run a prescribed recruitment campaign to document that no qualified U.S. worker applied, and then submit the ETA Form 9089 to OFLC. The job description must specify the actual duties and minimum degree requirements of the role. The entire PERM stage typically takes six to eighteen months depending on DOL processing times and whether an audit is triggered.
Can I change employers after my green card petition is filed?
Once your I-140 is approved and your priority date is current, you have porting rights under AC21 if you've held an approved I-140 for at least 180 days and your I-485 is pending. You can move to a new motion design role with a different employer in the same or similar occupational classification without losing your place in the green card queue. Consult an immigration attorney before making any employer change during this stage.
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