Senior Motion Graphics Designer & Video Editor - Apollo.io
San Francisco, CA
About the Job
Apollo.io is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 270 million B2B contacts, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io turns prospects into customers. Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members. Apollo.io is growing rapidly, with 900% revenue growth since 2021, and is looking for world-class talent to keep building with us.
Apollo is looking for a world-class Sr. Motion Graphics Designer & Video Producer to join our in-house video team.
In this role, you'll uplevel the quality of our video content with your mastery of post-production, including motion design, animation, editing, sound, and more.
As a top-notch motion designer and animator, you'll distill complex subjects into simple, easy-to-understand visuals that make each video 10x more effective, or create mind-blowingly gorgeous animations for high profile ads and hype videos — and know which treatment to apply on any given project.
As a video producer, you'll oversee the end-to-end production of some of our highest-profile video content, including Apollo Academy courses, in-product videos, customer stories, marketing assets, ads, Olympus keynotes, explainers, and more.
You'll work alongside an extraordinary team of videographers, content creators, designers and marketers to produce videos that drive results for Apollo and our customers.
This role reports to the Head of Video. The ideal candidate for this position has an extraordinary portfolio of video content, is an exceptional visual thinker and collaborator (bonus points for being able to storyboard quickly in analog mediums), has a background in UI/UX design (Figma experience preferred), and has worked at a fast-growing technology company before.
Responsibilities:
- Create and apply world-class design and motion to Apollo's video content to make every video you touch 10x more effective
- Oversee the end-to-end production and project management of video campaigns, including for ads, keynote speeches, product hype videos, Apollo Academy content and more
- Transform raw video footage into compelling stories through creative editing, color grading, and sound design/mixing
- Scope new video projects and keep stakeholders informed as projects progress
- Appropriately allocate and scale your time on various projects from quick turn to high touch and in-between
This role is fully remote (ideally located in the US) and will require occasional travel.
Qualifications:
- A portfolio of extraordinary video content, with tangible business results attributed to your work
- 10+ years of experience in design, motion design, and video production, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment
- You're a clear, efficient communicator, highly organized, and have the ability to manage multiple projects at once
- Your portfolio contains animated software product ads, explainers and demos, including UI animations
- Your portfolio contains Figma and Adobe Illustrator designs you made that are consistent with brand guidelines
- Your portfolio contains Figma and Adobe Illustrator designs you made and turned into world-class motion graphics
- Mastery of Adobe After Effects
- Mastery of Adobe Premiere
About Apollo.io
Founded in 2015, Apollo.io is one of the leading sales intelligence and engagement platforms trusted by over 15,000 paying customers, from rapidly growing startups to some of the largest global enterprises. Our community-based approach to crowdsourcing data gives users maximum coverage while ensuring data accuracy. Our advanced algorithms and unique data acquisition methods help over 500,000 sales professionals enrich and analyze prospects' data to increase quality conversations and opportunities.
We have notable investors: Sequoia, Y Combinator, Tribe Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners. We recently completed a Series C financing to fuel our next growth phase. The round was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Tribe Capital, NewView Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners.
Our growth and customer feedback set us apart from competitors. Apollo.io had over one million sign-ups for its platform in the past year, and the number of weekly active users increased by over 400%. We are a top-ranking G2 Crowd vendor in the Sales Intelligence, Lead Intelligence, Marketing Account Intelligence, and Sales Engagement categories. Our highest scores are in the B2B data space for accuracy and ROI based on customer reviews.
What You'll Love About Apollo
Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees' careers. The team embraces that we have a sole purpose: to help customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform. This mindset opens us up to a lot of creative approaches to making customers successful at scale. You'll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator. We're very collaborative at Apollo, so you'll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals. You'll be supported and encouraged to experiment and take educated risks that lead to big wins. And, you'll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!