Mid-Level Motion Designer

Augment Creative & Strategy; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 360,000 - 480,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based bonuses

Health insurance

Gym memberships

Overseas work trips

Learning platform access

Job summary

Augment Creative & Strategy is seeking a Mid-Level Motion Designer to own video and motion graphics across five brand portfolios. You’ll work on social cutdowns, paid ad variations, event recaps, hype films, and motion-led campaigns, while also producing static assets for web and CRM when needed.

You’ll collaborate with Strategy, Paid, and Account Management to translate briefs into on-brand work that grows, engages, and converts audiences, with a strong emphasis on AI-assisted workflows and

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of relevant video editing, motion, and multimedia design experience.
• Standout portfolio led by video and motion, with static work across digital channels.
• Strong grasp of functional and aesthetic design, and the judgement to know when to prioritise.
• Comfortable working across multiple brands and templates at once.
• Detail-oriented, solution-driven, and quick to take feedback and iterate.
• Keen interest in consumer psychology and performance; uses results to shape edits.
• Actively experimenting with, and using, AI to push video/motion boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Own video and motion graphics from concept to delivery across social, CRM, and web.
• Edit event recaps, hype films, athlete stories, and paid ad variations.
• Build and maintain motion templates for each brand.
• Use AI video and motion platforms to speed ideation and restyle footage.
• Integrate rotoscoping, upscaling, background removal, and generative fill into workflow.

Skills

Video editing

Motion design

Premiere Pro

Final Cut

DaVinci Resolve

After Effects

Colour grading

Audio mixing

Sound design

Photoshop

Illustrator

Figma

Aesthetic consistency

AI design tools

Blender

Cinema 4D

HTML email builders

Tools

Blender

Cinema 4D

Job description

Meet The Team

We are a dynamic team, passionate about providing a platform for people to be the best version of themselves. We specialise in endurance events across the USA, Canada, Australia and Europe; marketing, producing and executing best-in-class short and long-distance experiences.

If you consider yourself passionate about how to grow, engage, and convert audiences, and you get genuine satisfaction from a well-crafted, on-brand asset, this could be your next big move.

More About This Opportunity

As a Mid-Level Motion Designer at Augment, you'll own video and motion graphics across our five brand portfolios, from social cutdowns and paid ad variations to event recaps, hype films, and motion-led campaign assets. Video is your main focus, but you'll also create digital static assets for web, CRM, and paid when needed. You'll work closely with Strategy, Paid, and Account Management to turn briefs into consistent, on-brand work that grows, engages, and converts audiences.

You are an ideal candidate if:

• You have 2 to 4 years of relevant video editing, motion, and multimedia design experience
• You have a standout portfolio led by video and motion, with static work across digital channels
• You have a strong grasp of functional and aesthetic design, and the judgement to know when to prioritise which
• You're comfortable working across multiple brands and templates at once
• You're detail-oriented, solution-driven, and quick to take feedback and iterate
• You have a keen interest in consumer psychology and performance, and you use results to shape your edits
• Actively experimenting with, and using, AI to push the boundaries of what's possible in video and motion

Your roles and responsibilities:

Video & Motion

• Own video and motion graphics from concept to delivery across Instagram, Facebook, Google, CRM, and web
• Edit event recaps, hype films, athlete stories, and paid ad variations
• Build and maintain motion templates for each brand (lower thirds, end cards, aspect ratio masters)
• Use AI video and motion platforms (e.g. Runway, Sora, Kling, Higgsfield) to speed up ideation, generate and extend b-roll, and restyle footage where it lifts quality or turnaround
• Fold AI-assisted steps such as rotoscoping, upscaling, background removal, and generative fill into your workflow, without letting output quality slip

Design & Brand

• Create digital static assets for marketing channels when needed, on brand and on deadline
• Hold brand consistency across several distinct brands at once
• Turn briefs and strategy into work that balances aesthetics and function against the target audience and their psychology
• Make creative decisions independently and own the quality of your work end to end
• Keep footage, project files, and versions organised so anyone on the team can pick up your work
• Work with our Strategy, Paid, and Account Management teams to deliver year-round campaigns
• Review video performance with Paid and feed what works back into the next round
• Bring ideas to design discussions and strategy sessions
• Stay current on video trends, tools, and platform formats

Your key skills and competencies:

• Strong video editing (Premiere Pro, Final Cut, or DaVinci Resolve) and After Effects
• Colour grading, audio mixing, and sound design skills
• Solid Photoshop and Illustrator skills
• Confident in Figma
• Strong eye for aesthetic and design consistency
• Knowledge of platform specs: aspect ratios, safe zones, durations, and formats
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent briefs without dropping detail
• Hands-on experience with AI design and motion tools, and the judgement to know when they raise quality versus when to do it by hand
• Blender, Cinema 4D, or other 3D software a plus
• HTML email builders a plus

At Augment, first and foremost, you'll get to do meaningful work, upskill and develop while being on genuinely exciting and enjoyable projects. We're also not your average 9-5 company as we work across time zones. We are collaborative and we really care; we are passionate about what we do.

Some of the things to look forward to:

We kick-off the week with team coffee. We maintain group and individual 1 on 1s to keep focus on areas of improvement as individuals and as a team. Wednesdays are optional remote days.

Above your basic salary there are performance-based bonuses plus other incentives such as gym memberships, health insurance and overseas trips to work towards.

We thrive on seeing our team members grow by creating a learning culture. Augment provides access to a range of short-course platforms for all employees.

Have you read this far?

If we seem like the kind of forward-thinking, boundary-breaking, creative agency you've been looking for, we'd love to hear from you.