Midweight Motion Designer

Curiosity and creativity at theheart of everything you do? Midweight Motion Designer

About us

At Shaped By, we believe there’s an unbreakable connection between creativity and tangible business results. We exist to help B2B-focused businesses uncover their authentic truth and become the boldest versions of themselves. As an agency, we put our people first – fostering a culture of respect, flexibility, and collaboration – while focusing on product before profit to ensure every creative output meets the highest standard.

Our vision is simple yet ambitious: “To be the global champions for creative thinking and design excellence in the B2B world.”

We’re a tight-knit team that loves to push creative boundaries in a niche but sizeable core target market: high‑growth technology brands that are shaping the future of business. We do this while also championing the well‑being of our people through friendly working hours, robust benefits, and genuine opportunities for professional growth.

The Role

Bringing motion to life through creative thinking, application and design. With great layout, lighting, composition, movement and pace.

Whether the output is a narrative film or a brand reveal you should always start with strategy. There should be an underlying portrayal of a brands’ authentic story in your work. Elevating and enhancing final solutions through experimentation and working with accompanying disciplines (film crew, brand designers, illustrators, 3D animators, sound designers, copy writers, voiceover artists etc) to create excellence across all motion solutions.

You are a lover of motion and moving image design — have great creative ideas, amazing design and composition skills; and smart, clear, rational thinking and processes.

What’s expected from you:

• Within the studio you are responsible for maintaining world‑class creative skills and standards within your discipline and mentoring junior team members and consulting with senior team members.
• Confident in taking ownership of, and delegating, motion work‑streams and driving day‑to‑day progress in collaboration with creative leads, project leads and clients.
• Ability to facilitate and present internally and through creative client meetings, with input from the senior team.
• You are proactive to originate and push conceptual directions that are un‑chartered to surprise and delight ourselves and our clients.
• You will be great at organising your workload and collaborating with others to enable us to deliver creative solutions on time and on budget.
• Must be comfortable working in a demanding, fast‑paced environment under tight deadlines.
• Excite and inspire people around you – both colleagues and clients – and earn their respect and confidence.

Excellent full working knowledge and experience of Adobe Creative Cloud:
After Effects, Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, Illustrator, Indesign etc and Figma design tools

Demonstrate the following: ability to storyboard a narrative, styleframe an approach, create motion design systems, brief an illustrator / sound designer, create / edit an animatic, animate with a natural flair, understand the power of pace and composition, direct a shoot, cut and edit a film

Great visual and verbal communication, art direction, strong storyboarding and visualization skills

Start to demonstrate an understanding of the strategic dimension of our work, get under the skin of clients’ issues and source relevant solutions

A great listener, keen to understand and meet the needs of the client and the brief

Ability to effectively present work and convey rationale / thinking

Please include a cover letter, CV and relevant portfolio of work with your application.

Benefits of working at Shaped By

• 25 Days Holiday + Christmas + Bank Holidays
• Annual Training Budget
• Paid Birthday Off
• Group Life & Health Cash Plan
• Annual Profit Share
• Our culture days, quarterly charity days, and annual off‑site events further underscore our commitment to an environment where our people thrive.

The finer details:

• This is hybrid role only – operating 2 days flexible working and 3 days studio time at Paint works Bristol
• Working hours Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.30pm, with one hour available for lunch each day. 37 ½ hours per week

Diversity, inclusion & belonging

At Shaped By, everyone is welcome and has the opportunity to get on. Fostering a diverse and inclusive culture is at the core of how we do business. It’s embedded in our core principles:
People first and product before profit.

As part of these principles, we’re committed to supporting inclusion and diversity. Everyone is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us.