Senior 3D & Motion Designer

What you’ll do

• Work with existing SmartAC hardware CAD models and design assets to create high-fidelity product renders, scenes, and animations with accurate materials, lighting, and real-world context. (mounted on HVAC equipment, inside a home environment).
• Ability to generate, modify or optimize 3D CAD geometry is a plus.
• Create animated product sequences: exploded views, sensor placement reveals, data-flow visualizations, and “how it works” loops for web, social, and sales materials.
• Produce marketing motion assets for hero sections, landing pages, social campaigns, and sales decks — delivering files optimized for web playback and handoff to engineering.
• Collaborate directly with front-end engineers to prepare assets for scroll-based web experiences and interactive product pages, including design handoffs in Figma and exported motion assets ready for implementation.
• Contribute to the evolution of SmartAC’s visual identity and brand system as it applies to 3D and motion — ensuring consistency across hardware renders, animations, and marketing materials.

What we’re looking for

• 4+ years of professional experience in motion design, rendering and product visualization for physical or hardware products (consumer electronics, IoT, wearables, jewelry, or similar).
• Professional proficiency in one or more industry-standard 3D and motion design platforms such as Cinema 4D, Blender, Maya, or similar.
• Experience with rendering tools including Redshift, Octane, V-ray, Arnold or Keyshot is a plus. We care more about the quality of motion, rendering, and storytelling than specific software.
• Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator) for compositing, post-production, and asset delivery.
• Comfortable in Figma for design collaboration and engineering handoff — you’ll be working closely with a front-end team that builds from your designs.
• Demonstrated motion graphics ability: you understand timing, easing, and storytelling through movement — not just making things spin.
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product, and leadership teams through iterative creative processes.
• Art direction sensibility — you can take creative direction well, but you also bring your own point of view to a brief.

Nice to have

• Experience with UX motion design — UI animations, micro-interactions, and product interface motion — is a strong plus.
• Experience adapting engineering or industrial design CAD assets into marketing-ready visualizations and animation workflows
• Sound design skills for animated explainers and marketing videos.
• Experience with real-time 3D or web-native formats (Three.js, Spline, Lottie) for interactive web experiences and familiarity with scroll-triggered animation frameworks or the ability to spec motion for engineers implementing them.
• Experience creating product prototypes to communicate product concepts to stakeholders or leadership.
• A portfolio that includes hardware or physical product visualization in real-world environments.