Senior Motion Designer

Wpp Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Design Bridge and Partners, part of WPP, is seeking a Senior Motion Designer in London to lead motion across brand identities, digital experiences and campaigns. You will shape creative direction and ensure technically excellent execution while collaborating with executives, strategists and production partners.

You will mentor junior team members, present concepts to clients, and help raise the studio's motion capabilities within a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Motion Designer in leading branding, design, advertising or creative agencies.
• Strong portfolio of motion identity, animation, film, digital, social or campaign work.
• Experience leading motion design projects and contributing to the creative direction of wider brand programmes.
• Proficiency in After Effects, Premiere Pro and Illustrator.
• Comfort presenting work and rationale to clients and senior stakeholders; collaborating with cross‑functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead motion design and animation across diverse projects from branding to digital experiences.
• Translate brand strategy and visual identities into distinctive, coherent motion work.
• Own project outcomes, shape creative approaches and drive technical excellence.
• Mentor and develop junior designers and partners to grow studio motion capability.
• Contribute to pitches and new business opportunities.

Skills

Motion design

After Effects

Brand animation

Leadership

Mentoring

Storytelling

Creative direction

Client presentations

typography

Collaboration

Tools

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Illustrator

Cavalry

Job description

About us

At Design Bridge and Partners, part of WPP, we design brands with the power to move. Pulling people towards them with an irresistible force that compels and connects. With 900 creative minds across 17 studios worldwide, diverse in expertise, experience, backgrounds and beliefs, we are united in our ambition to achieve real impact for our clients' brands benefiting their business, people and the planet.

With expertise across brand strategy, brand design, brand engagement and brand effectiveness our clients across the world include NASA Artemis, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Mastercard, Intel, HSBC, Tencent, Twitch, Heineken, Reckitt and the BBC.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company - powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Motion Designer to join our multidisciplinary London team and help bring some of the world's most ambitious brands to life through best-in-class motion design.

Motion plays an increasingly central role in our branding work. In this role, you'll lead motion design and animation across a broad range of projects, from brand identities and motion principles to digital experiences, campaigns, social content, brand films and other moving-image applications.

You'll work closely with Executive Creative Directors, Design Directors, strategists, client leads and wider creative teams to translate brand strategy and visual identities into distinctive, coherent and engaging motion. You'll be involved from the earliest stages of creative exploration through to final delivery, helping shape the creative direction and ensuring the work is both creatively ambitious and technically excellent.

As a senior member of the team, you'll take ownership of projects, lead motion work with confidence and help establish the right creative approach for every brief. You'll present and explain your work to internal teams and clients, contribute to pitches and new business opportunities, and help raise the standard of motion across the studio.

You'll also play an important role in supporting and mentoring other designers, animators and creative partners. By sharing your knowledge and experience, you'll help develop the team's motion capability and contribute to the continued growth of our offer.

About you

You're a motion specialist with a strong portfolio demonstrating how you use movement to build brands, tell stories and create memorable experiences. You understand that great motion is not simply about making things move, it is about expressing a brand's personality, creating emotion and making ideas more powerful.

You have an expert understanding of animation principles, composition, typography, editing, pacing and storytelling. You can move comfortably between bold, energetic animation and more refined, cinematic brand expression, adapting your approach to suit different audiences, platforms and visual styles.

You'll have significant experience working as a Motion Designer within a leading branding, design, advertising or creative agency, alongside a strong portfolio of motion identity, animation, film, digital, social or campaign work. You'll have experience leading motion design projects and contributing to the creative direction of wider brand programmes, with a strong understanding of how motion can extend and amplify brand identities across multiple touch-points.

You'll be highly proficient in Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro and Illustrator, with strong video editing and moving-image storytelling skills. You'll be comfortable presenting work and communicating creative rationale to clients and senior stakeholders, as well as collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and directing or briefing external production partners where required.

We're looking for someone who is interested in mentoring others and helping to develop motion capability within a studio. Experience with generative AI workflows for motion and creative exploration would be valuable, while familiarity with tools such as Cavalry would be an advantage.

Above all, you'll bring energy, originality, curiosity and a deep understanding of how motion and film can make brands more distinctive, engaging and culturally relevant. You'll be confident working independently, while also knowing when to collaborate, challenge ideas and bring others into the process.

Why us?

We're passionate about our people and their careers. We'll help you develop your skills and provide you with outstanding benefits. So you'll have a chance to make your mark on our future, as we make a mark on yours. We're proud to be the world's most awarded brand design agency, with 28 Cannes Lions to our name and Creative Review Annual's Most Creative Design Agency of the Year 2024. You'll get to take new projects to award-winning potential, as part of a connected team of brilliant, tenacious people right by your side and across the world.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we've adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

Design Bridge and Partners, a WPP company, is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

Due to the volume of applications, we unfortunately can only respond to successful candidates.

We will not accept unsolicited CVs or approaches via recruitment agencies.

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