Motion Designer

Skinandme; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Hybrid working

Health and wellbeing focus

Development budget

Discounted Skin + Me products

Dog-friendly office

Job summary

Skin + Me is seeking an experienced Designer specializing in Motion and Paid Ads to join our Creative & Brand Team in London. This hybrid role combines three days at our Paddington HQ with two days remote.

You’ll champion our visual brand identity, own motion projects from concept through storyboard, animation and final delivery, and create performance-led assets for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and more. We value creativity, collaboration and the ability to adapt assets across formats while

Qualifications

• Exceptional animation, video-editing and short-form storytelling skills.
• Strong knowledge of the full Adobe suite with After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Experience crafting performance-led advertising creative for social platforms.
• Ability to adapt assets across formats and placements.

Responsibilities

• Champion our visual brand identity across touchpoints.
• Own motion projects from concept to storyboard, animation and delivery.
• Create performance-led animations for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and more.
• Collaborate with Growth and Creative teams to translate data into creative improvements.
• Edit UGC and creator content into paid-social assets for multiple formats.
• Develop multiple creative iterations for testing hooks and CTAs.
• Balance brand consistency with performance and evolving visual identity.
• Contribute ideas for organic social content and community-building visuals.
• Stay updated on trends to deliver high-quality work.

Skills

Motion design

Paid ads

Animation

Video editing

Creative storytelling

Branding

Collaboration

Communication

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Figma

Job description

Skin + Me is a mission driven start-up with seriously big skin goals.

We’re looking for an experienced Designer who specialises in Motion and Paid Ads to join our Creative & Brand Team in London. This is a hybrid working role with three days a week in our Paddington HQ (Mon, Tue, Fri) and two days remote.

What you'll do:

• Be a champion and guardian of our visual brand identity to deliver consistently high-quality creative across all touchpoints
• Own motion projects from brief and initial concept through to storyboard, animation, editing and final delivery
• Concept and execute performance-led animations and short-form videos for our paid marketing channels, including Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, PR, OOH and more, with strong hooks, clear messaging hierarchy, engaging pacing and conversion in mind.
• Work closely with Growth and Creative teams to understand performance data and use creative learnings to inform, iterate and improve future ads
• Edit and elevate UGC and creator content into engaging, polished paid-social assets. Adapt creative effectively across different platforms, placements, formats and aspect ratios
• Develop multiple creative iterations and variations for testing across hooks, messaging, formats, CTAs and visual treatments
• Balance brand consistency with performance, finding new ways to evolve and test our creative while maintaining a strong visual identity
• Work closely with others in the Brand & Creative Team to bring innovative ideas to the table. Design captivating assets from ideation to delivery for our organic social channels to help build a community of brand advocates
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, platform behaviours, emerging technologies and techniques to consistently deliver high-quality work

Who you are:

These are the skills we’d love for you to have but if you don’t tick every box we would still love to hear from you if you feel you’re right for us!

• Strong experience within the beauty, skincare, health or wellness industries is preferable, in a D2C subscription led brand, with broad experience creating digital marketing campaigns and paid social creative.
• Exceptional animation, video-editing and short-form storytelling skills, with a strong understanding of pacing, hooks, messaging hierarchy and what makes performance-led advertising engaging and effective.
• Strong concepting skills, with the ability to take a brief, insight or performance learning and develop it into a clear creative idea through to final execution and iteration.
• Excellent knowledge of the full Adobe suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and After Effects, with Figma ideally, alongside strong graphic design fundamentals across typography, composition, layout, colour and visual hierarchy.
• Confident across animation, video editing, compositing, sound design and basic colour grading, with experience editing UGC and creator content and adapting assets across multiple formats and placements.
• Experience with AI-powered motion and animation tools to enhance creativity, improve efficiency, streamline workflows and explore new ways of storytelling.
• A highly creative, open-minded and meticulous designer who is comfortable testing and iterating ideas, balancing strong creative craft with commercial objectives and working at pace in a start-up environment.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the confidence to present and explain creative decisions, work closely with Brand, Copy, Growth and NPD teams, and independently own projects and priorities at midweight level.

Why should you choose Skin + Me?

• A daily challenge – in a thrilling, entrepreneurial start-up environment, no two days will ever be the same.
• Make a difference – work within a revolutionary company that is focused on improving millions of lives.
• Significant equity – potentially life-changing value if you commit to our long-term mission.
• Serious commitment to growth – personal development is important to us and we’ll make sure we support your growth, and give you broad experience across your role.
• Support network – the Skin + Me investors and advisors that you’ll have the opportunity to work with have built some of the world’s best consumer companies.

Benefits

• 25 Days Holiday (+ all the usual Bank Holidays) – It's important to take a break and recharge, that's why we offer a generous holiday allowance
• Free Breakfast & Lunch – It's important you are well fueled for the day so we've got your breakfast and lunch covered. Plus drinks and snacks are available too!
• Hybrid working to give you flexibility – We are all remote on Wednesday and Thursday. When we are in the office on Monday, Tuesday and Friday our core hours are 10-4. If you're an early bird you can do 7-4, and if you're a night owl 10-7 is fine too. Need more flexibility around your life – just let us know.
• Equity – We offer a competitive salary and a generous share award package that means every employee has a stake in the business. We really are all in this together
• Health and wellbeing focus – We offer a healthcare cash plan, cycle to work schemes plus free healthy breakfast and lunch in the office. We'll be sure to always prioritise your physical and mental health.
• £500 annual development budget for any learning, training and development opportunities. Courses, books, software – if it helps you in your role, we'll help you get it.
• For working parents, we're proud to offer assistance, helping you save on nursery fees. The workplace nursery benefit allows you to save tax and National Insurance on the full cost of your nursery fees each month.
• Culture club – Our culture club team meets every week to make sure we celebrate our big wins and milestones too, with parties, surprises and more.
• You'll get highly discounted Skin + Me products for you, and 10 friends + family too.
• Generous employee referral scheme, if you know more fabulous people refer them to work with us too and you'll get a bonus when they pass probation.
• Dog-friendly office with two very cute resident dogs!

More About Skin + Me and the +Me Brands

In 2018, we set out to solve a problem that millions of people faced: not just struggling with their skin, but struggling to navigate skincare itself. By combining dermatology expertise, pharmacy and technology, Skin + Me created a simpler, more personalised approach – and proved that expert-led care could reach people who'd never had access to it before.

That belief became the foundation of something bigger.

Today, + Me is the company behind Skin + Me, Hair + Me and Renew + Me, with more on the horizon. We're not building a single brand. We're building a category – one where clinical expertise, smart technology and real personalisation are the standard, not the exception.

Every brand we build starts with a real problem. Every solution is rooted in science. And every person who joins + Me becomes part of re‑engineering personal care for more people, in more ways.

Think you’re up for the challenge?