Motion & Video Designer

We are looking for an experienced Motion & Video Designer to help bring engaging and impactful animations to life across digital platforms for a range of interesting client projects/brands.

This is a hands-on creative role that sits across motion design, video editing, visual storytelling, and AI-assisted video production. You'll take ideas from concept through to final delivery, turning campaign messaging and creative direction into compelling content for social and digital platforms.

It also requires excellent English verbal and written communication skills and the ability to pitch creative concepts and to take direction while working closely with the rest of the Creative Hub and the Digital Agency Team.

Our company culture (see our website) is built on one team, authenticity, courage, responsibility, and a growth mindset. We know our client's success results in our success. We hire people who are smart, talented, get things done, are infinite learners, and not an ars*hole

What the role entails:

1. Creative & Concept Development

• Translate brand, campaign, and performance objectives into compelling video and motion concepts
• Interpret creative briefs and develop visual approaches that solve the communication objective, not just execute instructions
• Develop storyboards, animatics, mood boards, and visual references when required
• Create strong hooks, visual narratives, pacing, and CTAs suited to social and digital audiences
• Collaborate with the Creative Lead and Account Managers to present and refine creative concepts
• Contribute creative ideas and proactively suggest new visual approaches, formats, and production techniques

2. Motion & Video Production

• Edit and create engaging video and motion content for social, paid media, digital campaigns, and branded content
• Produce compelling visual narratives through editing, pacing, motion, typography, transitions, sound, and visual effects
• Create 2D/2.5D motion graphics, animation, kinetic typography, branded content, and digital assets
• Combine footage, photography, graphics, illustration, 3D, and AI-generated assets into cohesive content
• Apply strong principles of composition, timing, visual hierarchy, and storytelling
• Execute advanced compositing and VFX, including keying, rotoscoping, motion tracking, cleanup, screen replacements, and colour correction
• Adapt content across different formats, durations, aspect ratios, and platform requirements

3. AI-Assisted Video & Visual Production

• Use AI tools to generate, enhance, transform, and extend video and visual assets
• Apply AI-assisted workflows including AI video generation, image-to-video, image generation, compositing, and visual effects
• Know when to use AI versus traditional design, editing, and compositing to achieve the best creative outcome
• Refine and manually edit AI-generated outputs to ensure polished, brand-appropriate, production-ready results

4. Project & Workflow Management

• Strong management of multiple client deliverables/work from concept through production to final delivery
• Strong creative systems and file keeping
• Develop and maintain reusable animation systems and templates (e.g., lower-third, transitions, motion libraries) to improve production efficiency

What we're looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Animation, Multimedia, or a related field
• At least five (5) years of experience in motion graphics design
• Experience in an advertising agency or handling multiple brands/clients simultaneously is a strong advantage
• Strong portfolio showcasing direct contribution and completed deliverable for real clients, particularly published on social media
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, especially After Effects (including expressions, templates, Trapcode/Particular), Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Media Encoder; basic knowledge of Audition
• Experience using AI-assisted creative tools (e.g., Magnific (formerly Freepik), RunwayML, Higgsfield, GPT Image 2, Seedance, and Kling) is an advantage
• Experience with DaVinci Resolve for color grading and finishing and 3D animation using Cinema 4D or Blender, with understanding of rendering engines are a plus
• Proficiency in collaborative tools such as Asana, Google Drive, Slack, Notion, and Frame.io
• Understanding of video formats, delivery specs, platform-safe areas, subtitles, and loudness standards
• Familiarity with video encoding formats and color management
• Experience with localisation workflows (editable text layers, RTL support, font fallback, subtitles)
• Knowledge of web/interactive animation tools is a plus
• Versatile desig