Mark Banaag
@markbanaag
Senior Motion Designer with 9 years of experience across agency and in-house roles, specializing in brand and performance creative for paid social.
What I'm looking for
Senior motion designer with 9 years across agency and in-house teams. I bridge creative execution and performance strategy—translating data, growth insights, and complex ideas into motion that strengthens brand and drives results across paid social and beyond.
My work spans short-form social ads, explainer videos, motion-based product content, and light live-action production — from concept and storyboard through animation, editing, and final delivery. Meta Certified Creative Strategy Professional with a social-first approach to every brief.
Let's make things move—and make things that move people.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
• Led motion, video, and sound for paid social ads
• Partnered with growth marketers to iterate on direct response creative to bridge brand and performance
• Collaborated with product & brand designers to merge design quality with performance
• Translated product UI into ad-ready visuals for paid campaigns
• Created onboarding videos extending brand storytelling into the new-user experience
Senior Motion Designer
Bamboo
Jan 2020 - Mar 2024 (4 years 2 months)
• Designed, animated, and edited performance ads for 30+ clients across e-commerce, fintech, and telehealth
• Produced high-volume ad creative across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube
• Translated performance data into creative direction that improved client KPIs
• Presented testing strategies & recommendations directly to client stakeholders
• Built modular templates and workflows to accelerate iteration
• Art directed 8 quarterly campaigns across print and digital
• Animated educational content for branch monitors and digital platforms
• Developed a bilingual Emergency Financial Toolkit for print
• Directed and produced a CUNA Marketing Council 2017 "The Pitch" finalist video
• Supported full rebrand from Seattle Metropolitan to Seattle Credit Union across all channels
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Meta
Certification, Creative Strategy
2021 -
Earned Meta Certified Creative Strategy Professional credential and maintained it since 2021.
TikTok
Coursework, Platform Creative
2023 -
Completed TikTok Academy Course 101 to learn platform-specific creative best practices for short-form video.
Western Washington University
Bachelor's Degree, Political Science
2004 - 2008
Grade: n/a
Activities and societies: n/a
Completed a Bachelor's degree focused on visual design and related coursework at Western Washington University.
School of Visual Concepts
Coursework, Design
Completed design coursework at the School of Visual Concepts to supplement formal education in visual and motion design.
Luminous Works
Coursework, Motion Design
Completed an After Effects course to develop motion design and animation skills.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
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