Senior Brand & Motion Designer — Lead & Mentor

Apparent; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dog-friendly HQ

Summer Fridays leave

Job summary

Apparent in Sydney seeks an experienced designer to lead and craft high-end visual identities across branding, motion, and digital campaigns. You will shape concepts, storyboard, and guide a team of creatives to deliver engaging outputs for diverse clients.

You will mentor junior and mid-weight designers, champion typography and layout, and collaborate with writers, UX designers, and strategists. This role values work-life balance and ongoing learning in a dog-friendly HQ.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of design experience in a creative agency or design studio with a relevant tertiary degree (and a portfolio focused on storyboarding/motion concepts).
• Exceptional visual concepting ability and an uncompromising eye for aesthetic detail.
• Strong graphic, brand, and UI design fundamentals.
• Experience managing or mentoring designers.
• A hunger to push boundaries, experiment with next-gen tools, and continue to grow.
• Strong creative, problem solving and organisational skills.
• Positive, flexible, self motivated attitude with a willingness to learn and adapt on the fly.
• Ability to generate key design concepts - taking jobs from storyboard concept to rollout, through to finished work with a high level of attention to detail applied throughout.
• Collaborative approach to design, storytelling, and ideating.
• High-level typography and layout skills - you treat type as a core design element and deeply understand its impact on brand feeling and hierarchy.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially in articulating complex narrative and design decisions.
• Natural storytelling instincts, with a portfolio that demonstrates an innate understanding of how to structure an engaging narrative arc.
• A deep mastery of branding fundamentals and a strong conviction in your design choices, backed by a solid creative rationale.
• Expert knowledge of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite applications, including Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Fundamental understanding of motion graphics/animation pipelines (knowing how to prepare assets for After Effects is essential).
• Ancillary skills or experimentation with node-based AI workflows and tools (like Figma Weave or ComfyUI) are a huge bonus.

Responsibilities

• Push and evolve client brand guidelines across branding, social, event design, and motion graphics.
• Hands-on creating outputs from storyboards and style frames to hype videos, launch campaigns, digital experiences, branding, and campaign visuals.
• Take a lead on projects and mentor junior and mid-weight team members along the way.
• Develop and champion strong visual concepts, pairing aesthetics with a clear strategic rationale.
• Elevate design craft and push boundaries of design for motion and visual design.
• Collaborate with writers, animators, UX designers, and strategists to ideate for multiple brands, videos, and campaigns.
• Create sub-brand identities, guidelines, design systems, and design documentation.
• Deconstruct user interfaces and reconstruct them into engaging animated stories and social content.
• Direct specialist creatives to bring storyboard visions to life.

Skills

Storyboarding

Motion design

Brand design

UI design

Typography

Art direction

Mentoring

Collaboration

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent

Tools

Figma

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

After Effects

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Apparent in Sydney seeks an experienced designer to lead and craft high-end visual identities across branding, motion, and digital campaigns. You will shape concepts, storyboard, and guide a team of creatives to deliver engaging outputs for diverse clients.

You will mentor junior and mid-weight designers, champion typography and layout, and collaborate with writers, UX designers, and strategists. This role values work-life balance and ongoing learning in a dog-friendly HQ.