National Football League: Part-Time Graphics Designer/Animator

Graphic Designer is needed in Inglewood, United States.

Client: National Football League

Location: Inglewood, United States

Contract: Part Time

Summary

The NFL Media Design Group is seeking a Designer/Animator to design and animate graphics and other design-based assets supporting shows, events, special programming or emerging platforms. This role’s assignment to the Graphics Systems team also requires an advanced programming and scripting skillset to build design/animation tools and workflows that maximize our department’s efficiency.

This position reports to our Graphics System manager and requires close collaboration with Art Directors and Creative Producers on a project-by-project basis.

In this role, the Designer-Animator will:

• On a project-by-project basis, conceptualize, design and ultimately animate specialized, high-production values graphics for the various groups serviced by the Media Design Group, working closely with the project’s Art Director.
• Help set and then meet timeline expectations, allowing adequate time for development, revision and execution with the Graphics System Manager and/or project-specific Art Directors and Creative Producers.
• On a long-term basis, conceptualize, develop and deploy new production workflows, web apps and artist automation tools that reduce time-consuming, repetitive processes related to our design/animation projects, across the department.
• Help support 70,000+ animated elements per season using automations and workflows.
• Provide and support automated solutions to other groups such as the Edit or Facilities departments.
• Help maintain relationships with core NFL technology and software partners. Provide primary and backup support to our Graphics Systems Manager.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience working in the design-animation and programming/scripting field.
• Expert knowledge of Adobe After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator. Proficient-to-expert knowledge of C4D (preferably Octane render engine), depending on project placement.
• Ability to develop custom designs and animations from original concepts or that derive from style guides, existing graphics packages and/or references provided by art directors.
• Expert knowledge of Javascript/Typescript, Extendscript, React, Python, C/C++ and AI toolks like ChatGPT Pro and CoPilot.
• Ability to develop strategic solutions to production inefficiencies and visualize ways to use automation and artificial intelligence to continue advancing the capabilities of our design/animation tools.
• Ability to adhere to communicated file naming conventions and shared organizational guidelines. Able to accommodate non-standard work hours, holidays and weekends as needed.

Other Key Attributes / Characteristics

• Proactive, detail oriented, organized, and accountable, with the ability to perform in a highly collaborative setting.
• Confidence in a fast-paced environment.
• Flexibility when faced with new information, needs or challenges.
• Ability to ask questions and communicate with art directors and creative producers when uncertain a current assignment or when ready for the next one. Willingness to invest in understanding the business of the NFL to better support and enhance how the League serves our clubs and engages our fans.

Salary / Pay Range

This job posting contains a pay range, which represents the range of salaries or hourly rates that the NFL believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting that it might be willing to pay for the posted job in the location(s) specified. The NFL expects to hire for this position near the middle of the range. Only in truly rare and exceptional circumstances, where an external candidate has experience, credentials or expertise that far exceed those required or expected for the position, would the NFL consider paying a salary or rate near the higher end of the range.

Terms / Expected Hours of Work

• Part-time under 29 hours/week

The NFL is committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment that reflects our incredibly diverse fan base. We provide an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all employees and applicants without regard to status as protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.