At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012, we’re revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients.
Compass is a leading real estate technology and services company that has built the industry's only fully connected, end-to-end platform for real estate professionals. We combine technology, AI, marketing, and business services to help real estate professionals grow their businesses, operate more efficiently, and deliver exceptional client experiences.
About the Team
The Creative Studio develops design, brand identities, and marketing campaigns that support our agents and elevate Compass and its affiliate brands. We partner across the business to advance strategic initiatives and raise the standard of creative excellence company-wide.
The Role
We're looking for an experienced and versatile Creative Producer to lead complex creative initiatives across Compass and its leading affiliate brands. You'll partner with internal leaders across Strategy, Communications, Product, and other functions, as well affiliate marketing executives, to bring campaigns, product launches, and brand experiences to fruition. Success in this role requires exceptional project leadership, sound judgment, and the ability to navigate competing priorities while balancing speed, quality, and business objectives.
You'll translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, align cross-functional stakeholders, proactively identify and mitigate risks, and continuously improve the way creative work is planned and delivered. This role requires strong stakeholder management, institutional knowledge, and the ability to build trusted relationships across all levels of the organization.
In this role you will:
Lead Creative Production
- Lead the production of integrated marketing campaigns and strategic creative initiatives from concept through delivery.
- Partner with internal leaders across functions and brokerage marketing teams to translate business priorities into creative execution, aligning stakeholders and setting expectations throughout the project lifecycle.
- Bring a strong creative point of view to projects, communicating concepts, ideas, and brand standards with clarity and confidence.
- Handle production escalations and bottlenecks through proactive problem-solving, balancing speed, quality, and business objectives.
Project Manage
- Define project plans, production schedules, milestones, and resource needs for complex creative initiatives, ensuring projects remain on track from kickoff through launch.
- Translate complex business objectives into clear action plans, balancing competing priorities while proactively managing dependencies and mitigating risks.
- Maintain initiative roadmaps, project trackers, and status communications to ensure alignment and visibility across stakeholders.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to support go-to-market planning, launch execution, and customer communications.
- Measure and communicate the success of creative initiatives against established company goals by analyzing performance data, synthesizing insights, and sharing post-launch recommendations that inform future creative work.
Manage Stakeholders
- Serve as the single point of accountability for internal teams and brokerage marketing teams throughout the lifecycle of creative initiatives.
- Plan, lead, and execute concurrent cross-functional workflows, ensuring an effective exchange of information, feedback, and deliverables.
- Build trusted relationships across Strategy, Product, Communications, and Brokerage Marketing teams to ensure creative solutions consider the needs of all impacted stakeholders.
- Lead stakeholder and customer feedback loops, synthesizing insights into actionable next steps that strengthen creative outcomes.
Improve Processes
- Continuously evaluate creative workflows and implement process improvements that increase efficiency and scalability.
- Partner with the Creative Resourcing team to optimize resource planning, workload balancing, project operations, and performance reporting.
What We’re Looking For:
- 5-7 years of experience in creative production, marketing, advertising, or a related field.
- Deep understanding of the creative process and experience working in a creative in-house or agency environment.
- A strategic thinker who can translate complex business objectives into clear, actionable creative plans.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with experience building trusted cross-functional relationships and driving alignment across teams.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with experience managing multiple complex initiatives from concept through launch.
- Experience using data and performance insights to measure success, optimize creative outcomes, and inform future work.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with confidence presenting creative concepts and strategic recommendations to stakeholders and leadership.
- Thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, adapting quickly to changing priorities, embracing feedback, and delivering high-quality work under tight deadlines.
The Creative Studio is responsible for creating design, brand identities, and marketing campaigns that support our agents and elevate Compass and its affiliate brands. We partner across the business to bring strategic initiatives to life with the highest level of creative excellence.
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Motion Designer with exceptional craft, sharp typography, and systematic brand thinking. Partnering with Creative Directors, Producers, and Marketing leads, you’ll translate static identities into fluid motion: storyboarding marketing campaigns, animating high-impact product launches, and building scalable motion systems that elevate our brand across every touchpoint.
At Compass You Will:
- Bring Marketing Campaigns to Life: Spearhead motion design and execution for high-impact brand campaigns, regional brokerage promotions, and national marketing initiatives. You will own projects from concept, storyboarding, and style frames through to final animation, rendering, and compositing.
- Build Tools to Empower Our Agents & Internal Teams: Build scalable motion systems, dynamic video templates, and customizable social assets that empower agents and our brokerages to market themselves and their listings with premium polish.
- Bring Product Launches to Life: Partner with Creative Director, Producers and product teams to translate new feature releases and software tools into engaging, story-driven product launch videos and animations that clearly communicate value to our network.
- Elevate Brand & Motion Systems: Maintain visual excellence across all moving assets, pushing the boundaries of typography, timing, transitions, and animation to keep the Compass aesthetic ahead of the industry.
- Thrive in a Fast-Paced Studio: Excel in a high-volume, collaborative environment where stunning aesthetics, brand consistency, and rapid execution go hand in hand.
What We’re Looking For:
- Experience: 4–5+ years in motion design with a portfolio spanning brand campaigns, sizzle reels, and product launches. Proven ability to build clean files, dynamic templates, and scalable motion systems.
- Technical Toolkit: Advanced proficiency in After Effects (animation, compositing, templates), Premiere Pro (editing), and Figma (UI/UX manipulation).
- Design & Storytelling: Exceptional editorial pacing, composition, typography, and visual brand execution.
- Communication: Ability to pitch motion concepts clearly and collaborate effectively with non-technical partners and clients.
- Agility: Thrives in fast-paced environments: managing multiple active briefs and delivering polished work under tight deadlines.
- Generative AI (Plus): Hands-on experience with GenAI tools (e.g., Midjourney, Flora, Higgsfield) for concepting and asset creation is a major plus.
Compensation & Perks
- Salary Range: Base pay of $103,000 - $126,000 annually (varies based on experience and skills). Bonuses and restricted stock units (RSUs) may be provided as part of the total package.
- Incentive Programs: Eligible cash, equity, or commission participation.
- Time Off & Leave: Paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and dedicated recharge leave.
- Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, tele-health, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k) plan; FSAs; life & disability insurance.
- Family Support: Maven (new parent support), Carrot (fertility benefits), and UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network).
- Perks: Commuter program, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and pet insurance.
Perks that You Need to Know About:
Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave; medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits; 401(k) plan; flexible spending accounts (FSAs); commuter program; life and disability insurance; Maven (a support system for new parents); Carrot (fertility benefits); UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network); Employee Assistance Program; and pet insurance.
Do your best work, be your authentic self. At Compass, we believe that everyone deserves to find their place in the world — a place where they feel like they belong, where they can be their authentic selves, where they can thrive. Our collaborative, energetic culture is grounded in our Compass Entrepreneurship Principles and our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, growth and mobility. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits and professional growth opportunities aimed at helping to improve our employees' lives and careers.