Motion Designer

Skin + Me; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 Days Holiday

Free Breakfast & Lunch

Hybrid working

Flexibility around life

Equity

Job summary

Skin + Me is seeking an experienced Designer specialising in Motion and Paid Ads to join our Creative & Brand Team in London. This hybrid role blends high-impact creative with performance-driven experimentation across social and paid channels.

You will own motion projects from concept to final delivery, adapt assets for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and more, and collaborate with Growth and Creative teams to turn data insights into filmic, tests-driven campaigns while maintaining brand consistency.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in motion design and paid social campaigns.
• Expertise with Adobe CC for video and graphics.
• Strong storytelling, pacing and visual hierarchy for short-form content.

Responsibilities

• Champion and guard visual brand identity across touchpoints.
• Own motion projects from brief to final delivery.
• Concept and execute performance-led animations for paid channels.
• Collaborate with Growth and Creative teams to turn data into creative improvements.
• Edit UGC and creator content into paid-social assets.
• Adapt creative across platforms and formats.
• Develop multiple creative iterations for testing.
• Balance brand with performance while evolving creative.
• Collaborate with Brand & Creative Team to bring ideas to life.
• Design assets for organic social channels to build brand advocates.

Skills

Motion design

Paid ads

Video editing

Brand guidelines

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Premiere Pro

After Effects

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:

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