Senior Motion Designer

twentysix; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Reputation for doing good (B Corp)

Awesome clients

Training and certifications

Cares Month volunteering

Job summary

DEPT in London is seeking a Lead Motion Designer to set art direction and craft across motion and static content for a range of brands. You will shape concepts from early thinking to final execution, focusing on storytelling, framing and how visuals evolve over time.

You will mentor junior designers, collaborate with designers and strategists, and stay curious about new tools and formats, including AI-assisted workflows, to deliver compelling video and animation across campaigns.

Qualifications

• Solid experience as a Motion Designer or similar role.
• Outstanding showreel and/or portfolio.
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience in video editing and an interest in sound design.
• Strong graphic design principles and a feel for art direction.
• Ability to meet deadlines and collaborate with internal teams and clients.
• Clear and fast in communication.
• High attention to detail.
• Ability to remain focused under pressure within a fast-paced environment.
• A love for learning new things and exploring new formats.

Responsibilities

• Lead motion design on projects across a range of brands, translating creative concepts into compelling animated and video content
• Own the motion design process end-to-end: concepting, storyboarding, animatics, execution, and final delivery
• Work across both motion and static, occasionally supporting graphic design needs alongside motion craft
• Collaborate closely with designers, art directors, and creatives to develop motion systems, style frames, and treatments aligned with brand guidelines
• Provide creative and technical guidance to junior and mid-level motion designers, offering feedback and mentorship
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, balancing quality with tight deadlines across different brand accounts
• Stay curious about new tools, techniques, and formats across motion and visual design, including AI-assisted workflows
• Present and articulate creative rationale to internal teams and, where needed, clients

Skills

Motion design experience

Showreel/portfolio

Adobe Creative Suite

Team collaboration

Video editing

Art direction

Deadline management

Communication

Attention to detail

Learning new formats

AI-assisted workflows

Tools

DaVinci Resolve

Cinema 4D

Blender

Job description

Budapest

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.

JOB PURPOSE

This position sits in our Marketing & Technology service based in London. We combine data, technology, creative content, and paid media to crack brands’ business problems & drive revenue through a variety of digital marketing solutions like ad campaigns, augmented reality, and chatbots. Our clients include EasyJet, eBay, INEOS, Logitech, L’Oréal, Roblox, Walkers and Zalando.

As a Lead Motion Designer, you will set Motion Art Direction through ideas, motion, visuals, and narrative. You bring strong art direction thinking and high level motion craft together to shape concepts from early thinking to final execution. You care about story, framing, and how visuals communicate over time. You push ideas forward while being actively involved in the work.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead motion design on projects across a range of brands, translating creative concepts into compelling animated and video content
• Own the motion design process end-to-end: concepting, storyboarding, animatics, execution, and final delivery
• Work across both motion and static, occasionally supporting graphic design needs alongside motion craft
• Collaborate closely with designers, art directors, and creatives to develop motion systems, style frames, and treatments aligned with brand guidelines
• Provide creative and technical guidance to junior and mid-level motion designers, offering feedback and mentorship
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, balancing quality with tight deadlines across different brand accounts
• Stay curious about new tools, techniques, and formats across motion and visual design, including AI-assisted workflows
• Present and articulate creative rationale to internal teams and, where needed, clients

WHAT YOU BRING

Essential:

• Solid experience as a Motion Designer or similar role
• Outstanding showreel and/or portfolio
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
• Comfortable working within a multidisciplinary team amongst graphic designers, creatives and strategists
• Experience in video editing and an interest in sound design
• Strong graphic design principles and a feel for art direction
• Ability to meet deadlines and collaborate with internal teams and clients
• Clear and fast in communication
• High attention to detail
• Ability to remain focused under pressure within a fast-paced environment
• A love for learning new things and exploring new formats

Nice to have:

• Experience with grading in DaVinci
• Cinema 4D or Blender 3D experience
• illustration

WE OFFER

Please note that benefits may vary by location. Feel free to reach out to your recruiter for more details

• A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021.
• Awesome clients. Whether big, small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with all of them. And we celebrate all of our successes together!
• The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.
• Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.

WHO ARE WE?

We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA.

We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter.

At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives.

We also encourage you to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us.Want to know more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion? Check out our efforts here.