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About the Role
The Motion Editor will understand brands as well as they understand a timeline, cutting hero films that evoke emotion and adapting them for all platforms. This role involves animating confidently, bringing a unique perspective to projects, and shaping how footage, motion, and sound integrate for clients. The editor will lead projects, collaborate with internal teams and external specialists, and contribute to the evolution of editing practices within a growing team.
Responsibilities
- Cutting brand films and campaign content with real emotional pull
- Creating cutdowns tailored for each format and platform
- Animating type, graphics, and full motion sequences within edits
- Selecting and editing music, and layering sound to support visuals
- Finding narrative in footage without a script
- Ensuring edits align with client brand identity
- Collaborating with external directors, production companies, and sound studios
- Presenting edits and the rationale behind them
- Supporting and guiding junior team members
Requirements
- A reel demonstrating emotional storytelling and range across formats
- 5+ years of editing experience, ideally in branding, design, or advertising
- Expert proficiency in Premiere Pro
- Strong After Effects skills with a good sense of timing and movement
- A great ear for music and sound design
- Experience leading the edit on projects and presenting work
- A clear sense of when AI aids the work and when it doesn't
Skills
- Motion editing
- Animation
- Storytelling
- Brand identity understanding
- Premiere Pro
- After Effects
- Music selection
- Sound design
- AI tool utilization
- Colour grading (nice to have)
- DaVinci Resolve (nice to have)
- Cinema 4D (nice to have)
- Blender (nice to have)
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of editing experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Bupa Healthcare, including dental option
- Income protection & life insurance
- Classpass credits
- Group personal pension
- 25 days holiday + time given at Christmas and New Year
- Summer Fridays x 2
- Birthday day off
- Season ticket loan (after probation)
- Cycle to work scheme (after probation)
- Enhanced parental leave policies (after probation)
- Referral scheme for new hires (after probation)
- 2 weeks work from anywhere, by agreement with line manager (after probation)
About the Company
- Jones Knowles Ritchie is a branding business founded in 1990, proudly independent and operating worldwide with over 350 employees across the UK and USA.
- The Motion team works in motion, film, CGI, and sound for global brands, acting as creative partners to shape brand expression and experiences.
- The company explores new creative technologies and aims to be at the forefront of their possibilities.
- JKR's motto is 'Be yourself; everyone else is taken'.
Equal Opportunity
- JKR aims to create an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace that reflects and creates for the societies we live in.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a long-term business commitment at JKR.