Founders Makers
Senior Brand & Motion Designer
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What we're looking for
We like to work with mavericks. Wild cards. Brilliant, empathetic, creative and strategic thinkers. Talented individuals who are comfortable enough to be independent, but humble enough to know they don’t know it all.
We believe in being seriously playful. Making the work as impactful as it can be, and having some fun along the way. If that appeals to you, you’re reading the right job spec.
The role
Founders Makers is looking for a Senior Brand and Motion Designer to join our London team - a genuinely rounded creative who's equally comfortable building a brand identity, designing a campaign, producing content and bringing it all to life through exceptional motion work.
Motion is your superpower, but it doesn't define the edges of what you do. You think holistically about how brands look, feel and move across every platform they live on. You're as engaged in the early concept stage as you are in the final delivery, and you bring real creative conviction to both.
We're an independent agency, which means we move quickly, stay close to the work and don't have layers of people or process getting between a good idea and making it happen. We're looking for someone who thrives in that environment.
You'll need to be comfortable switching gears. One day you might be building a motion-led brand system; the next you might be jumping onto a fast-turnaround social brief that needs a great idea by the end of the day. You'll know when something needs weeks of craft and when it needs speed, instinct and a smart solution.
Role: Senior Brand and Motion Designer
Salary: £40k–£52k, dependent on experience
Start: Immediately
Hours: 9am–6pm (but actually)
Location: Shoreditch. Three days in the office, two days WFH.
Training: Individual training budgets for all members of the team
Holidays: 20 days, plus public holidays, your birthday and our two-week break over New Year
Work From Anywhere: Up to 20 days each year
In a nutshell, you:
- Are a rounded designer with brand, campaign and content in your locker, with exceptional motion running through all of it.
- Have a strong visual eye and great creative instincts, and care deeply about how the work looks, feels and moves.
- Are equally comfortable thinking and making.
- Can take something from a rough thought or scamp through to a finished, beautifully crafted piece of work.
- Move quickly and don't get (too) precious about the process.
- Can work with ambiguity, changing priorities and tight turnarounds without losing sight of the quality of the work.
- Know how to be scrappy when you need to be, finding clever ways to make ambitious ideas happen without enormous budgets or resources.
- Have deep, hands-on motion skills and know your way around After Effects, plus real command of the wider Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
- Can confidently present and sell creative thinking to clients.
- Know when to fight for an idea, when to flex and when to find another way.
- Bring the same energy to the small jobs as you do to the sexy ones.
- Are proactive, collaborative and decidedly low-ego.
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What you'll be doing
Working within our wider creative and design team, you’ll be:
- Developing distinctive brand identities, building visual systems that work across identity, digital, social and campaign platforms.
- Designing and producing campaign assets across channels, from hero creative through to social and content formats.
- Bringing brands to life through motion, producing animation, video and motion-led assets for campaigns, social content and digital platforms.
- Creating motion-led brand systems that define how a visual identity moves, transitions and behaves across touchpoints.
- Producing content across a range of formats, from static to motion to short-form video, so the work always feels native to the platform it lives on.
- Turning early thinking into compelling scamps, brand worlds, treatments, content ideas and presentations.
- Getting stuck into pitches and new business, often working at pace to turn around ideas and creative routes.
- Collaborating with strategists, creatives and client partners from early concept through to final delivery.
- Finding creative ways to make ambitious work happen within real-world budgets and timelines.
- Presenting your work confidently to internal teams and, where appropriate, to clients.
- Keeping an eye on culture, technology, AI and new ways of making work, including AI-assisted design and motion workflows.
- Helping raise the creative standard, and guiding others members of the team as the studio grows.
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About you
You'll already have strong agency or studio experience at a senior level, with a body of work that shows you can think conceptually and bring brilliant ideas to life beautifully, with exceptional motion work running through your portfolio.
You'll have a great visual eye and a deep understanding of brand systems: typography, layout, visual storytelling and how identities stretch and move across platforms. But you won't be boxed into one discipline. Just as importantly, you'll enjoy the reality of working in a smaller independent agency.
You're ambitious for the work and for the agency. You want to make things you're proud of, win pitches, attract exciting clients and be part of building something.
You have a point of view without an ego. You know when to obsess over the details and when getting a great idea into the world matters more than making everything perfect.
If you like the idea of being part of a tight-knit team, close to the work, close to the decisions and having a real hand in where an independent agency goes next, you'll probably like it here.
Who we work with
People, brands and organisations ranging from household names to challengers looking to make their mark. What unites them? They're nice people with big ambitions to make an impact in their industries, and they trust us to help them do just that.
How to apply
If you’ve read the above and think this sounds like your kind of place, send your CV, portfolio and anything else that you think will grab our attention to: seniordesigner@founders-makers.com
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