About the role:

What you will be doing:

• Creating best in class animated assets for social and various online platforms, bringing to life and adding value to project creative.
• Deliver on briefs from concept to completion via working collaboratively across teams on ideation, creation and implementation.
• Producing storyboards and researching solutions
• Staying on track with emerging digital trends and engaging with the wider digital creative community.
• The ability to take complete ownership of projects, including taking brief, presenting initial designs to client (where required) and managing the project until delivery.
• A strong understanding of conceptualisation, graphic design, typography and motion/editing video content.
• Demonstrate strong design thinking for the web, digital, ecommerce, social advertising.
• Adapt and define the look and feel for a variety of design projects whilst implementing existing brand guidelines.
• Handling multiple projects simultaneously and thriving in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Managing workloads within agreed timescales
• Monitoring proactively quality, accuracy and consistency

What you need to be great in this role:

• Deep affinity with impactful motion graphics, typography, communication hierarchy, contemporary trends and idea generation
• Familiarity with a range of content formats e.g. animated social cards, GIFs, audiograms, videograms, stories, pre-rolls etc.
• Expertise in social media content best practices
• Ability to collaborate well with multiple stakeholders
• Excellent digital and motion design skills, knowledge and a portfolio that demonstrates this
• Awareness of emerging digital design trends, especially video and motion.
• Understanding of typography, layout, colour and grid structures.
• Skills to work within and develop a complex brand identity
• A working knowledge of interactive/ digital design, social media asset creation and video.
• The aptitude to learn new software and programmes efficiently and effectively.
• Good knowledge of digital processes to deliver quality solutions, confident and articulate, with the ability to voice and share ideas and opinions both internally and with client.
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite: After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere. Bonus skills: Indesign, Cinema 4D and Figma.
• Proactive, solutions-focus mindset with sharp brief comprehension
• A keen eye for detail
• 4+ years' experience as an independent motion graphics designer working in a marketing/design/advertising role
• Understanding of narrative storytelling