About Kiran Jewels India
Kiran Jewels India is a diamond and fine jewellery manufacturer based in Andheri, Mumbai, supplying retail partners across India and international markets. We are building an in-house creative function that treats design as a driver of the business, not a service desk that formats what marketing has already decided.
About the role
A diamond is not really a shape. It is a behaviour: light entering, bouncing around inside, and leaving. A still image flattens that. Motion is the only format where the product actually does what it is supposed to do.
We are hiring a Motion Graphics Designer to own how our product and our brand move. Product films, campaign work, vertical social, 3D animation built from our own CAD files, screen content for trade shows and showrooms, and buyer-facing films.
You will not be the person who animates the logo at the end of someone else's video. You will take a brief from a sentence, to a storyboard, to a finished cut with sound on it.
What you will make
- Product films where the whole idea is how light travels across a facet, a metal edge, or a pavé line
- Campaign and collection launch films, from concept and storyboard through to final grade
- Vertical social built for sound off and thumb speed, cut for the format rather than cropped down from a landscape master
- 3D animation built from our existing jewellery CAD: turntables, setting detail, exploded views, hero renders that move
- A motion identity for the brand: logo behaviour, title cards, transitions, and a template kit the rest of the team can use without breaking it
- Screen content for trade shows, showroom displays and retail partner touchpoints
- Buyer-facing work: line presentations, collection sizzles, seasonal cut-downs
- Delivery across every ratio and spec a campaign needs, with the idea still intact at 9:16
How you will work
- Start on paper. Storyboard and animatic before After Effects opens.
- Own the cut. Selects, pacing, music, sound design, grade. Animation timed to nothing in particular reads as amateur no matter how cleanly it is built.
- Match CG to plate. Our renders and our shot footage have to live inside the same film and look like they were always there.
- Use AI tools where they earn their place. Generative video for previs, plates and extensions, image models for boards and mood, upscaling and cleanup in post. We expect you to have a working opinion on which of the current models actually survive contact with reflective metal and faceted stone, and exactly where they fall apart.
- Give and take real critique, including on your own work.
What we are looking for
- 2 to 4 years on motion work, or a reel strong enough that the number stops mattering. We hire on the reel, not the resume.
- After Effects at a real level: shape layers, expressions, time remapping, camera and 3D space, masking and roto, clean project hygiene. Presets and marketplace templates are not a substitute.
- Editorial instinct. You know why a cut lands on one frame and not the frame next to it.
- Type in motion. Hierarchy, kerning and legibility that hold up small, on a phone, in daylight.
- Light and colour literacy. How a specular highlight rolls off, how yellow, white and rose gold each behave, why a stone that looks right in isolation goes grey against the wrong background.
- Sound. Cutting to music, and building simple sound design rather than laying a stock track over a finished edit.
- 3D in Cinema 4D or Blender, comfortable importing CAD geometry and lighting a product shot in Redshift, Octane or Cycles. In this role, this is the single skill that separates a strong candidate from an average one.
- Finishing discipline. Premiere or Resolve, codecs, colour space, aspect ratios, delivery specs that do not come back rejected.
Nice to have
- Frame by frame or cel animation
- Rigging in After Effects
- Houdini, or any simulation work
- Camera experience: macro, motion control, lighting a small product set. We shoot in-house.
- Any macro-heavy product category: jewellery, watches, beauty, spirits, small electronics
- Lottie or Rive for web and product animation
Why this is worth your time
- Direct access to the product, the CAD files, the shoot setup, and the people who actually make the pieces. Most motion designers in this category work entirely from supplied assets and never touch the object.
- Ownership of a brief end to end, not a queue of tickets.
- The team is being built now, so what you set becomes the standard rather than something you inherit.
- Full-time, on-site, Andheri, Mumbai.
Pay: ₹40,000.00 - ₹50,000.00 per month
Work Location: In person
