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    "description": "<p><span style=\"color: rgb(22, 46, 79); font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold\">Senior Motion Graphics Designer — Independent Contractor</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic\">Scarab Digital | Vancouver-based | Hybrid |  Remote- across Canada considered</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">A senior contract role for a highly accountable designer who can shape visual direction, mentor others, and carry the hardest builds without losing the story.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(22, 46, 79); font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">The opportunity</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">We are looking for a Senior Motion Graphics Designer to join Scarab Digital as a freelance independent contractor on active productions. This role is for a high-trust senior who can carry difficult builds, help shape visual direction, interpret evolving vision needs, and strengthen the team around them while still being deeply hands-on.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">This is project-based contract work, but not one-off thinking. We are looking for someone we can bring back repeatedly because the work gets better when they are involved.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(22, 46, 79); font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">What the work is</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Scarab Digital builds story-driven on-screen graphics for film and television: phones, text conversations, social interfaces, laptop screens, search results, dashboards, surveillance visuals, broadcast graphics, radar systems, and speculative UI/FUI. The work needs to read instantly on screen, feel native to the world of the story, and help move the narrative forward.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">At the senior level, this role goes beyond personal output. We need someone who can help define the right visual direction inside a moving production, translate abstract ideas into systems the team can execute, and mentor through context, feedback, and example.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(22, 46, 79); font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">What you will do</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Design and animate complex UI/FUI and on-screen graphics systems for film and television.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Help shape, clarify, and elevate artistic direction in collaboration with production and other creatives.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Interpret vision needs early, especially when the brief is still forming, and turn them into something the team can build from.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Take on the most challenging builds and step in when a project needs stronger direction, stronger judgment, or stronger execution.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Use sketches, references, motion studies, mockups, and examples to direct work clearly.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Mentor other designers through direct feedback, practical support, and high standards.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Push design beyond the expected when it strengthens the scene, while still protecting the brief, story need, and production reality.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Own outcomes, not just deliverables.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(22, 46, 79); font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">You will do your best work here if you…</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• lead through doing, not just by having opinions.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• can collaborate on vision, direct vision, and also interpret vision when it is still emerging.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• have taste, range, and restraint; you know when to push and when to simplify.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• are someone other people look up and get sharper around.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• hold yourself accountable and naturally raise the bar for the work around you.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(22, 46, 79); font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">What usually does not work here</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Seniority without follow-through.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• A work style that depends on distance rather than collaboration for output.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Beautiful work that does not actually serve story, readability, or production constraints.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Protecting ego more than protecting the quality of the outcome.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Isolated work style without the willingness to share knowledge and mentor to elevate the work of the team in its entirety.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(22, 46, 79); font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">Core requirements</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• 7+ years of relevant experience, with a portfolio that clearly supports senior-level judgment and execution. For candidates carrying substantial direction/mentorship weight, 8–10+ years is typical.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Expert command of After Effects, Illustrator, Protopie, Figma, Cinema 4D and Photoshop.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• High-end design fundamentals across typography, layout, composition, color, rhythm, and motion.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Strong portfolio in film, television, games, title work, or comparable narrative interface work.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Ability to move fluidly between concept, art direction, build, revision, and final delivery.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(22, 46, 79); font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">Strongly preferred</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Demonstrated experience mentoring or leveling up other designers.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Comfort across both grounded contemporary UI and more speculative FUI worlds.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Confidence in client- or stakeholder-facing creative conversations when occasional consultation is necessary. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Evidence of systems thinking: not just great frames, but coherent visual logic.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(22, 46, 79); font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">How we work with contractors</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• This is freelance independent-contractor work with project-based scopes, schedules, and deliverables.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• We are looking for a true senior collaborator: someone who can be trusted with meaningful responsibility quickly.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• Our strongest contractor relationships tend to become long-running because trust, judgment, and consistency matter here.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">• We reward reliability with continued opportunity, deeper trust, and more meaningful work.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(22, 46, 79); font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">Our Inclusive approach</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">We are not looking for one stereotype of a senior creative. We value people with strong instincts, different strengths, and distinct ways of leading; as long as they are generous with context, accountable in the work, and serious about excellence. We want the best person for the role, not the most predictable résumé.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(22, 46, 79); font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">What strong candidates usually bring</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Category - Senior Motion Designer</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Typical level - Typically 7+ years; 8–10+ common when direction and mentorship are central</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Core tools - Expert After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Protopie, Figma</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Strong indicators - Vision interpretation, leadership through example, sophisticated taste, accountability</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(22, 46, 79); font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">Application process</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Stage</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">What we’re looking for</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Portfolio + short application</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Relevance, judgment, communication, and whether the candidate understands the role they are applying for.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Structured questions</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Ownership, taste, film/UI/FUI relevance, collaboration style, accountability.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">CliftonStrengths and Team interview</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">CliftonStrength Assessment and Interview to ensure a good overall team fit</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(22, 46, 79); font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">A note from us</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">If you are the kind of senior who brings vision, clarity, accountability, and strong execution into the room. People trust you more once they have worked with you; we would like to see your work. This is a role that truly matters! </span></p>",
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