Junior Motion Designer

livingston, central scotland, United Kingdom Company: JR UK Client /

Employer:

Driver Reviews

The Junior Motion Designer is an exciting new position within the Post‑Production team, supporting the creation, versioning, and publishing of high‑impact animation content across multiple Driver Reviews channels.

Working closely with the Video Production Lead and the wider Growth team, this role focuses heavily on producing and scaling our fast‑paced animated content across different global markets. You will help deliver clear, accurate automotive and tyre insights by transforming data into engaging visual and motion‑graphic content, supporting informed consumer choices while building practical, hands‑on experience across video editing, platform optimisation and emerging AI‑driven discovery platforms.

Based in our Edinburgh office (4 days per week, 1 day working from home), this position reports directly to the Video Production Lead and is tailored for an ambitious creator looking to kick‑start animation career.

• Produce Animated Review Content: Create, animate, and edit high impact graphics in After Effects. These videos will be designed to scale Driver Reviews reach and engagement across multiple countries.
• Visual Storytelling: Transform complex tyre telemetry, automotive data, and consumer review insights into engaging, easy to understand motion graphics and animations.
• Asset Management: Support the Post‑Production team by organising, versioning, and maintaining visual assets and templates for multi‑market distribution.
• Content Refreshing: Assist with updating existing video assets, ensuring on‑screen graphics, branding, and statistics remain accurate and current.

• Curiosity & Creativity: A strong passion for visual storytelling, keen to explore how motion graphics and video editing can drive engagement on social media and digital platforms.
• Drive to Launch Your Career: Highly motivated to kick‑start your professional animation career by working directly with exclusive, fast‑paced automotive content.
• Attention to Detail: Takes pride in precision timing, clean keyframing, accurate text rendering, and maintaining consistent Driver Reviews brand standards.
• Organisation under Pace: Able to manage multiple assets simultaneously, adhering to tight production schedules to ensure animated review content scales efficiently.
• Collaboration: Enjoys working closely within a dedicated post‑production team environment, open to creative feedback and eager to learn from the Video Production Lead.

• Foundational Animation & Editing
  
  Skills:
  
  Experience and a strong personal portfolio demonstrating proficiency in animation and video editing software (e.g., Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or similar).
• Short‑Form Video Fluency: An understanding of the pacing, hooks, and visual trends that drive successful content on video‑led social channels (You Tube, Tik Tok, Instagram Reels).
• Data Visualisation Interest: The ability to take technical automotive topics or review statistics and present them visually and clearly to a non‑technical audience.
• Speed and Agility: Comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment where quick turnaround times are essential for scaling content across multiple countries.
• Automotive Enthusiasm: A genuine interest in cars, motor sport, or automotive lifestyle content is beneficial.
• Multilingual Advantage: Fluency in German, Spanish, or French is advantageous for managing multi‑country video localisation, but not essential.

As well as a competitive annual salary based on experience, the successful candidate will also receive:

• Flexible working hours with core window Monday to Friday 9am‑5.30pm, one‑hour lunch break, flexible start and finish times.
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement (4 days in the office, 1 day from home).
• Holiday entitlement of 31 days including public holidays (including your birthday).
• Colleague discretionary bonus scheme of up to 12% of base salary dependent on hitting targets.
• Pension – employer contributions of 5%.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• One set of free tyres per year after completion of probation period.
• Life Assurance of 5 × basic salary upon appointment.
• Private Health Insurance after one year of service.
• Free counselling service and mental health support.
• Opportunity to be part of a fast‑growing and ambitious start‑up environment.