Junior Creative Motion Designer

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.

This position sits in our Marketing & Technology service based in London. We combine data, technology, creative content, and paid media to crack brands’ business problems & drive revenue through a variety of digital marketing solutions like ad campaigns, augmented reality, and chatbots. Our clients include ASOS, Just Eat Takeaway, Twitch, Tik Tok, and The White Company.

As a Junior Creative Motion Designer
, you are a rising talent with a hunger to learn and a passion for visual storytelling. You will support the team in bringing ideas to life through movement, helping to shape concepts from the initial storyboard to the final render. You have a keen eye for detail, a solid grasp of animation principles, and a desire to develop your art direction skills within a fast-paced, world-class agency.

• Support Visual & Motion Direction: Help shape the trajectory of projects from initial concept to final delivery, ensuring motion is a core part of the creative solution.
• Master Visual Storytelling: Develop creative ideas rooted in narrative, pacing, and structure, learning how to tell a brand’s story through movement.
• Design & Animate: Create high-quality motion assets across various campaigns and formats, maintaining a high standard of craft.
• Uphold Brand Standards: Learn to define and protect look-and-feels, style frames, and motion languages, ensuring all work remains consistent with brand identities.
• Develop Art Direction Thinking: Work alongside seniors to translate static concepts into dynamic motion systems that align with the overarching creative intent.
• Collaborate & Execute: Partner closely with designers and creatives, ensuring your motion execution stays true to the project's original vision.
• Stay Curious: Keep your finger on the pulse of motion trends, new tools, and emerging AI techniques to keep DEPT® at the forefront of the industry.

• Emerging Art Direction Mindset: A strong sense of visual judgment and the confidence to contribute ideas that help craft a project’s visual story.
• Motion Design Foundation: Solid skills in animation with an innate understanding of timing, framing, and how to evoke emotion through movement.
• Brand Awareness: An interest in acting as a brand guardian, with the ability to adapt your style to suit different visual systems and brand guidelines.
• Narrative Craft: Experience (or a high potential) in creating style frames and visual systems that support narrative-driven motion.
• Technical Spark: Proficiency in the core motion toolkit, with drawing skills or frame-by-frame animation experience considered a significant plus.
• Future-Facing: A genuine curiosity around AI tools and an interest in how they can support and evolve the creative process.
• A Compelling Showreel: A portfolio that demonstrates your potential in concepting, craft, and high-quality motion storytelling.

• A flexible, hybrid working policy (2 days from the office, depending on location).
• An excellent salary based on experience and equal pay policies
• Pension, free private healthcare, mental health support, and company sick pay scheme.
• Refreshments are provided in the office all week, as well as drinks at 4 pm on a Thursday.
• Help getting you to work with a season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme.
• Enhanced family friendly policies to support new parents.
• Social and Cultural Events, plenty of opportunities to connect with colleagues through organised activities and celebrations.
• Inspirational Talks, bringing the outside in with regular guest speakers and events.
• Learning and Development, supporting your growth with continuous opportunities to learn and advance.
• Buddy Programme:
  You will be paired with a ‘Buddy’ to help…