3D Motion Designer (Freelance)

Role & Responsibilities HAUS is seeking an experienced freelance 3D Motion Designer. The ideal person will be responsible for the following: • Create High-Impact 3D Animations: Lead the creation of sophisticated 3D animations and motion graphics for high-profile deep tech client campaigns across websites, social media platforms, and presentations. You'll craft visually stunning content that captures the revolutionary nature of our clients' technologies - from quantum computing breakthroughs to autonomous robotics - making their innovations impossible to ignore. • Visual Storytelling & Technical Communication: Develop compelling visual narratives through 3D product demonstrations, explainer videos, and immersive brand experiences. Transform complex technical concepts into accessible and engaging visual stories that resonate with diverse audiences like investors and partners to customers and the general public. Your work will make advanced technologies like AI chips, biotech innovations, and aerospace systems understandable and exciting. • Technical Visualization Excellence: Design and animate intricate technical processes, product mechanisms, and scientific concepts with both accuracy and artistry. You'll collaborate with engineers and scientists to ensure technical fidelity while maintaining creative excellence, producing visualizations that are both scientifically accurate and visually captivating for deep tech startups at the forefront of innovation. • Creative Leadership & Stakeholder Management: Present creative concepts, iterations, and final deliverables to senior stakeholders and C-level executives with confidence and clarity. You'll articulate design decisions, incorporate feedback efficiently, and guide projects from initial concept through final delivery, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and brand vision. • Project Management & Quality Control: Manage multiple complex animation projects simultaneously, maintaining exceptional quality standards while meeting tight deadlines. You'll prioritize tasks effectively, coordinate with cross-functional teams, and ensure every frame meets our high standards for both technical accuracy and creative excellence. Your organizational skills will keep projects on track even when working on diverse technologies across different industries. • Innovation & Technical Advancement: Stay at the cutting edge of 3D technologies, rendering techniques, and motion design trends. Continuously explore new tools, workflows, and creative approaches that can elevate our work. You'll experiment with emerging techniques to bring fresh perspectives to how we visualize breakthrough technologies and help our clients stand out in competitive markets. Requirements • Passion for Deep Tech: You must love deep tech and demonstrate genuine excitement for visualizing cutting-edge technologies. • Education & Experience: Your portfolio must showcase sophisticated work that goes beyond technical proficiency to demonstrate strategic thinking and creative problem-solving in visualizing advanced technologies. • 3D Software Mastery: Expert proficiency in Cinema 4D, Blender, or Maya with the ability to leverage each tool's strengths for different project needs. Advanced knowledge of rendering engines (Octane, Arnold, V-Ray, Redshift) and the technical expertise to optimize render pipelines for both quality and efficiency. You understand the full 3D production pipeline from modeling and texturing to lighting and rendering. • Motion Graphics & Compositing: Advanced skills in After Effects for compositing, motion graphics, and post-production workflows. You seamlessly integrate 3D renders with 2D elements, typography, and effects to create polished final deliverables. Experience with node-based compositing (Nuke, Fusion) and color grading workflows is valued. • Portfolio Excellence: Strong portfolio showcasing sophisticated 3D animations, technical visualizations, and strategic motion design thinking. Your work should demonstrate the ability to handle complex technical subjects from molecular structures to spacecraft systems with both scientific accuracy and creative flair. We'll look for evidence of your ability to maintain consistent visual quality across diverse project types. • Technical Communication Skills: You can take a dense technical whitepaper about quantum algorithms or biotech processes and transform it into an engaging animation that makes the innovation accessible to non-technical audiences while maintaining scientific integrity. • Brand Systems & Consistency: Deep understanding of brand consistency and the ability to work within established visual systems while pushing creative boundaries. You'll adapt your style to fit different brand aesthetics while maintaining coherence across all deliverables, ensuring every animation feels on-brand whether it's for a biotech startup or an aerospace company. • Leadership & Mentorship: Experience with project management and mentoring junior creative team members. You can break down complex projects into manageable tasks, provide constructive feedback, and elevate the work of others. Your leadership helps maintain quality standards while fostering creative growth within the team. • Client Communication Excellence: Strong client communication skills and proven ability to present work to senior stakeholders. You can articulate creative decisions clearly, manage expectations effectively, and navigate feedback from multiple stakeholders including CEOs, CTOs, and marketing teams. Your professionalism and communication skills build client confidence in ambitious creative directions. • Technical Curiosity & Innovation: A genuine passion for technology and staying current with industry advances. You're excited to learn about new scientific domains whether it's understanding how fusion reactors work or how CRISPR gene editing functions because that knowledge directly improves your ability to visualize these innovations effectively. • Bonus Skills: Experience with real-time engines (Unreal Engine, Unity) for interactive experiences is highly valued. Knowledge of procedural animation tools (Houdini), AR/VR development, or programming (Python, JavaScript) for automation and custom tools is a plus. Any experience with scientific visualization, data visualization, or technical illustration will set you apart. We especially value artists who can handle the full creative pipeline, from concept sketches to final delivery. About HAUS HAUS is the world’s first integrated public relations and creative services agency purpose built for deep tech startups and scaleups. In January 2022, we set out on a mission to accelerate the adoption of technologies that maximize freedom, material abundance, and human flourishing. Since then, we’ve had the opportunity to support more than 100 startups, scaleups, venture firms, research labs, and other organizations in industries including artificial intelligence, aerospace, biotechnology, climate, defense, energy, advanced manufacturing, quantum computing, semiconductors, robotics, and more. Compensation • Competitive; depends on experience and market rates Location • Remote Submit Your Resume While we do check the LinkedIn careers submission inbox, the best candidates will have read this entire job description and send a short note demonstrating their creative excellence and enthusiasm for the specific type of work we do at HAUS to creative-careers@deeptech.agency. Include the name of the freelance position you are applying for in the subject line of your email. Please keep in mind that we receive an overwhelming number of submissions that are written by AI. If you keep your note human and show that you actually care about what we are doing specifically here at HAUS, this will be strongly considered along with your application.