Aquent
Senior Motion Graphics Designer [211012]
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Senior Motion Graphics Designer [211012]
Senior Motion Designer
The clients' vision is to create Living brands for the world’s most pioneering technology companies, and so motion must become inherent, built into our thinking from the very inception of a brand project.
As a senior motion designer, you’re a driving force behind that: bringing brands to life through rich, considered movement, and pushing our motion craft forwards with brilliant creative ideas, exceptional execution, and smart, rational thinking.
You’ll move fluidly between 2D motion graphics, 3D animation, and short-form editing — relishing collaboration with our motion-thinking designers.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Create best-in-class motion for brand identities, campaigns, and motion narratives — equally comfortable working with 2D and 3D builds
- Inject motion thinking into projects from the start, shaping concepts rather than retrofitting movement later
- Edit short-form video projects and produce mood films for pitches and internal use
- Collaborate closely with design and creative teams to develop treatments, storyboards, and workflows
- Lead the motion workstream on projects, providing technical and creative direction
- Present and sell ideas and work confidently to clients, partners, and internal teams
- Elevate the studio’s standards for craft, detail, and ingenuity
- Champion innovative workflows, including exploring generative and AI motion tooling
- Provide clear direction and feedback when working with external motion talent
- Manage multiple deadlines, ensuring high-quality delivery on time and budget
- Report to the Creative Director, supporting motion project leadership, including scope development
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Your Capabilities
- A brilliant creative thinker who treats motion as storytelling, not decoration
- Master of detail and craft, ensuring precision from concept to final render
- Versatile—proficient in 2D motion graphics, 3D animation, and short-form editing
- A natural collaborator, inspiring and building with designers who share a motion-first mindset
- Fluent in strategic and brand storytelling, equipped to align motion to client needs
- Experienced in brand systems and motion applications, interfacing seamlessly with tonal and voice guidelines
- Open to emerging tools—eager to test AI/generative workflows, identifying real value
- Versatile and curious, tackling projects fresh, across diverse sectors
- Articulate, assertive, and persuasive—capable of confidently presenting work
Your Attitude
Senior Motion Designers are:
- Committed and confident with driving ambitious creative work
- Relentlessly positive, embracing challenges
- Determined and tenacious, seeing projects through to success
- Generous collaborators, valuing shared ownership and sharing feedback
- Open-minded and experimental, always seeking better solutions
- Fearless in failure, driven by a "nothing is impossible" mindset
- Hungry to learn and ready to share knowledge
- Authentic team leaders, lifting their colleagues along
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Requirements
IT/Technology Skills
Must-Have:
- Deep proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including:
- After Effects (expressions, plugins)
- Premiere Pro (for edits and workflow)
- Cinema 4D (with knowledge of Redshift and/or Octane)
- Familiarity with 3D motion pipelines, integrated into 2D workflows
- Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
Advanced Knowledge:
- Experience with Figma and FigJam
- Google Workspace administration (Slides, Docs, Sheets)
Desired (and Curious):
- Generative/AI motion tooling—ready to experiment and adopt
- Real-time tools, particularly Unreal Engine
- Video production, including shoot direction and post-process workflows
Experience
- 5+ years’ hands-on motion design at a leading agency
- Strong design background with expertise in trends in motion and digital design
- End-to-end experience—from concept ideation to final delivery
- Narrative-driven storytelling skills for both film and motion briefs
Client Requirements
We are a highly collaborative team of:
- Designers
- Strategists
- Project managers *United by our belief in the transformative power of creativity.
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