Social Media Motion Designer

Plan.Net CreativeNest South Africa; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 360,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Plan.Net CreativeNest South Africa is seeking a Social Media Motion Designer with a strong production mindset to transform campaigns into high-quality animated assets for social and digital channels.

You will produce reels, stories, ads, and cutdowns, adapting master assets into multiple formats while staying on brand and meeting tight deadlines, collaborating with designers, art directors and international teams.

Qualifications

• Strong skills in Adobe After Effects.
• Very good skills in Premiere Pro.
• Strong Photoshop and Illustrator skills.
• Solid graphic design and typography fundamentals.
• Experience producing motion assets for social and digital channels.
• Experience with high-volume production and adaptation workflows.
• A good understanding of different social media formats and specifications.
• Ability to work within templates and brand guidelines.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong file management and organisational skills.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Producing high volumes of motion and social media assets for an international retail client.
• Turning existing key visuals and campaign concepts into animated digital content.
• Creating Reels, Stories, social ads, short-form videos and promotional content.
• Producing different product, price, offer and promotional variations.
• Adapting master assets into multiple formats, sizes and platform specifications.
• Creating cutdowns and alternative versions of existing video content.
• Working with product imagery, packshots, typography and promotional messaging.
• Editing video footage and combining it with graphics, animation, typography and sound.
• Ensuring assets remain consistent with brand and campaign guidelines.
• Quality-checking your own work before delivery.
• Managing multiple assets and deadlines simultaneously.
• Collaborating with designers, art directors, project managers and international teams.

Skills

Motion design

Production mindset

Fast, structured work

Brand guidelines

Team collaboration

Tools

Adobe After Effects

Premiere Pro

Photoshop

Illustrator

Job description

We are looking for a Social Media Motion Designer with a strong production mindset to support one of our major international retail clients. You will take existing campaigns, key visuals and creative concepts and turn them into high-quality animated assets across social and digital channels. This is a hands-on production role.

One campaign might need to become multiple videos, Stories, Reels, social ads, display assets and different product or promotional variations - sometimes across several markets.

You need to be someone who can work fast, structured and accurately without compromising on craft.

What you’ll be doing

• Producing high volumes of motion and social media assets for an international retail client
• Turning existing key visuals and campaign concepts into animated digital content
• Creating Reels, Stories, social ads, short-form videos and promotional content
• Producing different product, price, offer and promotional variations
• Adapting master assets into multiple formats, sizes and platform specifications
• Creating cutdowns and alternative versions of existing video content
• Working with product imagery, packshots, prices, typography and promotional messaging
• Editing video footage and combining it with graphics, animation, typography and sound
• Making sure assets remain consistent with brand and campaign guidelines
• Quality-checking your own work before delivery
• Managing multiple assets and deadlines simultaneously
• Working closely with our designers, art directors, project managers and international teams

What we’re looking for

You are a strong motion designer, but you also love production.

You understand that producing 25 adaptations of one campaign requires a different skill set than producing one hero film.

You are organised, precise and fast. You notice when a price is wrong, when a packshot has been replaced with the wrong version or when an animation is three frames off.

You should have:

• Strong skills in Adobe After Effects
• Very good skills in Premiere Pro
• Strong Photoshop and Illustrator skills
• Solid graphic design and typography fundamentals
• Experience producing motion assets for social and digital channels
• Experience working with high-volume production and adaptation workflows
• A good understanding of different social media formats and specifications
• The ability to work within established templates and brand guidelines
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong file management and organisational skills
• The ability to work efficiently under tight deadlines

Experience in retail, FMCG, e-commerce or high-volume advertising production is a major advantage. Experience with Figma, automation, templating, dynamic creative production and AI-powered creative tools is a plus.

We’re looking for someone who gets satisfaction from making production work really well.

You don't need a completely new creative concept for every asset. You understand how to take a strong master idea and execute it consistently across dozens of deliverables.

You are comfortable with feedback, last-minute changes and fast turnarounds.

What we offer

• The opportunity to work on a major international retail account
• Close collaboration with teams across the global Serviceplan network
• A stable stream of international production and creative work
• The opportunity to help us build and improve our production workflows
• Exposure to automation, AI and new approaches to scalable content production
• A growing South African team where people can take ownership and make an impact