Senior Motion Graphics Designer

Overview

Senior motion designer

The clients vision is to create Living brands for the world’s most pioneering technology companies, and so motion must become inherent built into our thinking from the very inception of a brand project.

As a senior motion designer you’re a driving force behind that: bringing brands to life through rich, considered movement, and pushing our motion craft forwards with brilliant creative ideas, exceptional execution, and smart, rational thinking.

You’ll move fluidly between 2D motion graphics, 3D animation and short-form edit — and you’ll relish doing it shoulder-to-shoulder with our designers, who are motion thinkers too.

Duties & responsibilities

• You’ll create best-in-class motion for brand identities, campaigns and motion narratives — equally comfortable on 2D and 3D builds
• You’ll bring motion thinking into projects from the very start, shaping concepts and treatments rather than bolting movement on at the end
• You’ll edit short-form for video-led projects, and cut mood films for pitches and internal work when needed
• You’ll work closely with the wider creative and design teams to develop concepts, treatments and storyboards — sharing freely and bringing others with you
• You may lead the motion workstream on a project, giving clear, constructive direction to others contributing motion
• You’ll confidently present and sell your ideas and your work, both to internal teams and to clients and partners
• You’ll set the standard in the studio for craft, attention-to-detail and ingenuity
• You’ll champion new and better ways of working — actively learning, testing and trialling generative and AI motion tooling, and bringing the best of it into our process
• You’ll give clear direction and constructive feedback when working with external motion talent
• You’ll own your own workloads across multiple projects and timescales, delivering on time and on budget
• You’ll report to the Creative Director, and support on the running and leading of motion projects — including input into project scopes and estimates where required.

Your capabilities

• A brilliant creative thinker who treats motion as a storytelling tool, not decoration able to push an idea, a system, or someone else’s route that bit further
• Excellent on the craft and detail — nothing gets past you, from the first keyframe to the final render
• Fluent across 2D motion graphics, 3D animation and short-form edit, moving between them with ease
• A natural collaborator who shares and builds with our designers — they think in motion too, and you’ll meet them there
• Comfortable engaging with the strategic and brand dimension of our work, able to get under the skin of clients’ issues
• Grounded in the fundamentals of great storytelling, and able to express ideas confidently through storyboards and treatments
• A strong understanding of brand systems, tone of voice and guidelines — and how motion lives and breathes within them
• Curious about emerging tools — excited to learn, test and trial generative and AI tooling, and discerning about where it genuinely adds value
• Holistic and broadly curious, treating each project as a fresh opportunity and moving freely between sectors
• Articulate, confident and assertive in presenting work

Your attitude
Senior motion designers are:

• Committed and confident, energised by ambitious creative
• Relentlessly positive, up for any challenge
• Determined and tenacious enough to see things through
• Generous, able to share ownership — never precious, never protective
• Open-minded and experimental, always looking for new ways to make the work better
• Unafraid to try and fail, possessing a ‘nothing is impossible’ spirit
• Always hungry to learn, always ready to share
• A genuine team player who lifts the people around them

IT/Technology skills
You should be highly proficient in:

• Adobe Creative Cloud — with deep expertise in After Effects (including plugins and expressions) and confident editing in Premiere Pro
• Cinema 4D, ideally with Redshift and/or Octane
• 3D motion pipelines, and their integration into 2D workstreams
• Photoshop and Illustrator
• Confident in, or confident in adopting:
• Figma and FigJam
• Google Workspace: Slides, Docs, Sheets
• And ideally have capability or curiosity in one or more of the following:
• Generative and AI motion tooling — with a real appetite to test and trial it in your process
• Real-time tools, particularly Unreal Engine
• Video production, shoot direction and the wider edit/post workflow

Experience

• 5+ years’ hands-on motion experience at a leading agency
• A strong design background, with a sharp awareness of current trends in both motion and design
• Hands-on across the lifecycle of motion work, from ideation and treatment through to final delivery
• A storyteller at heart — confident applying the fundamentals of narrative to both film and motion briefs