Job Description

C2's client, a national brand experience company that creates the physical environments that move product on automotive dealer floors nationwide, designing and producing the interactive displays, fixtures, and environments that help car buyers make decisions at the point of sale, seeks a contract Motion Graphics / Digital Designer to create the animated content that brings those retail environments to life on screen.

The client's digital studio creates the motion and digital content that runs across in-dealership experiences for a roster of major automotive OEM brands. This contract role adds motion capacity to a high-output creative team supporting those automotive accounts.

The expectation is simple: take a direction and push it further. Innovative thinking carries more weight here than pure execution, and the team is looking for a designer who brings their own creative instincts to automotive OEM work where brand standards are tight and timelines are real.

Start Date: September 2026
Duration:Contract, approximately 3 months at 40 hrs/week*, with potential to extend * yet to be confirmed
Location: Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite in Milwaukee or Chicago
Compensation: $38-$45/hour
Benefits: C2 talent working 30+ hours/week for 30 consecutive business days are eligible for medical, dental, and optional vision insurance, life insurance and PTO accrual; 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match available for enrollment after 90 days.
Technology: Talent must provide their own hardware and software.

Job Description

This designer reports into a creative structure where a Design Director sets vision and a Lead Motion Designer runs day-to-day work and quality reviews. The leads ideate and review, but they want someone who can carry work from concept through final execution without needing every step handed to them.

Success here looks like a self-sufficient generalist who thinks across the whole process, holds up under agency pace, and treats tight automotive brand standards as a given rather than a constraint. This is a role for a designer with strong creative instincts and the range to move comfortably between 2D, motion, and 3D work.

Responsibilities:

• Design attract loops and animated digital content for in-dealership display environments, from interactive touchscreens to looping fixture screens
• Produce motion graphics for automotive product promotions, service retention campaigns, and dealer-facing digital tools
• Create social content
• Direct digital content from concept through final execution, including video direction support and 3D asset integration
• Contribute UX/UI to digital showroom experiences, including navigation, hero design, and page layout for interactive retail environments

Requirements:

• A portfolio that shows range across 2D explainer videos, fast-paced social content, and 3D product breakdowns
• Demonstrated experience designing content that plays on screens, attract loops, kiosk displays, and touchscreen environments, not just print or web
• Proficiency in Figma, Canva, and Cinema 4D (C4D); 3D capability is a meaningful differentiator for this role
• Holistic thinking from concept to final execution, with the range to own more than one step of the process
• Comfort working across automotive OEM accounts at agency pace, where brand standards are tight and timelines are real
• Ability to work self-sufficiently while the leads ideate and review, bringing your own creative instincts to the work

Nice to Have:

• A deeper web design sensibility, command of page hierarchy, navigation, and hero composition beyond the showroom contributions above
• Prior work with dealership retail or point-of-sale digital environments
• Background in brand transformation or rebranding work at the campaign level

Not your type of gig, but know someone who would be interested? Refer a qualified candidate, and if they get the job, you get a signing bonus! (Make sure they mention your name as their referral source so you get your well-deserved credit!)

All candidates must be located and authorized to work in the United States. C2 does not sponsor work visas. No C2C.