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About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Motion Designer to join our London team, responsible for bringing ambitious brands to life through best-in-class motion design. This role involves leading motion design and animation across various projects, from brand identities to digital experiences and social content. You will collaborate with creative directors, strategists, and client leads to translate brand strategy into engaging motion, guiding projects from concept to delivery. As a senior member, you will own projects, mentor designers, and contribute to pitches and new business opportunities, elevating the studio's motion standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead motion design and animation across a broad range of projects, including brand identities, motion principles, digital experiences, campaigns, social content, brand films, and other moving-image applications.
- Collaborate 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.
- Be involved from the earliest stages of creative exploration through to final delivery, shaping creative direction and ensuring both creative ambition and technical excellence.
- Take ownership of projects, lead motion work with confidence, and establish the right creative approach for every brief.
- Present and explain work to internal teams and clients.
- Contribute to pitches and new business opportunities.
- Help raise the standard of motion across the studio.
- Support and mentor other designers, animators, and creative partners.
- Share knowledge and experience to develop the team's motion capability and contribute to the growth of the studio's offer.
Requirements
- A strong portfolio demonstrating the use of movement to build brands, tell stories, and create memorable experiences.
- Expert understanding of animation principles, composition, typography, editing, pacing, and storytelling.
- Ability to move comfortably between bold, energetic animation and refined, cinematic brand expression, adapting the approach to suit different audiences, platforms, and visual styles.
- Significant experience working as a Motion Designer within a leading branding, design, advertising, or creative agency.
- Experience leading motion design projects and contributing to the creative direction of wider brand programmes.
- Strong understanding of how motion can extend and amplify brand identities across multiple touch-points.
- Comfortable presenting work and communicating creative rationale to clients and senior stakeholders.
- Ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience directing or briefing external production partners where required.
- Interest in mentoring others and helping to develop motion capability within a studio.
- Confidence working independently, while also knowing when to collaborate, challenge ideas, and bring others into the process.
Skills
- Motion design
- Animation
- Brand building
- Storytelling
- Composition
- Typography
- Editing
- Pacing
- Video editing
- Moving-image storytelling
- Client presentation
- Creative rationale communication
- Team collaboration
- Mentoring
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe Illustrator
- Generative AI workflows for motion (valuable)
- Cavalry (advantage)
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Outstanding benefits
- Support for skill development
About the Company
- At Design Bridge and Partners, part of WPP, we design brands with the power to move people.
- We have 900 creative minds across 17 studios worldwide, diverse in expertise, experience, backgrounds, and beliefs, united in our ambition to achieve real impact for our clients’ brands benefiting their business, people, and the planet.
- Our expertise spans brand strategy, brand design, brand engagement, and brand effectiveness.
- Clients include NASA Artemis, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Mastercard, Intel, HSBC, Tencent, Twitch, Heineken, Reckitt, and the BBC.
- WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands, uniting media intelligence, data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions, and strategic counsel.
- We help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.
- Design Bridge and Partners is the world’s most awarded brand design agency, with 28 Cannes Lions and recognized as Creative Review Annual’s Most Creative Design Agency of the Year 2024.
- We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.