Senior Motion Designer

Job Description

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.

Required skills

The role
As champion of motion design for Shaped By and our clients you are responsible for bringing moving image to life through creative thinking, application and design. With exquisite layout, lighting, composition, movement: there should be impeccable pace across time and space in every outcome.

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’ core attitude and 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 moving image design — have great industry awareness, creative ideas, amazing design and composition skills; and smart, clear, rational thinking and processes. Clear communication of a brand ethos, idea or message is your core mission.

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
→ Train and mentor junior team members to enable distribution of work, understanding of process, best practice and collaboration with other skills / disciplines
→ Confident in taking ownership of, and delegating, moving image work-streams and driving day-to-day progress in collaboration with creative leads, junior colleagues, project leads and clients
→ Confident in supporting creative and project leads in identifying needs and relevant talent for work streams at kick off stage as well as during projects
→ Confident in arranging, facilitating and presenting internally and through creative client meetings, with minimal input from the senior team. Accumulating in successfully taking colleagues and clients on the project journey with you to inform, educate and excite – providing rationale and process
→ You will ambitiously originate and push conceptual directions that are un-chartered to surprise and delight ourselves and our clients. You will not be trapped by the technicalities of delivery, or the mechanics of manufacture
→ 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.

Your capabilities
→ Excellent full working knowledge and experience of Adobe Creative Cloud: After Effects, Premiere Pro, Audition, Media Encoder, Illustrator, Indesign etc and Figma design tools
→ Excellent creative thinking, ideation, visual communication, art direction, storyboarding and visualization skills
→ Fully understand / execute or demonstrate the following: ability to write a treatment, help to craft a script, storyboard a narrative, styleframe an approach, create 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 a film
→ Able to engage with the strategic dimension of our work, get under the skin of clients’ issues and source relevant solutions
→ Good communication and feedback provided to other team members to improve workflow, processes and instil best practice across the agency
→ A great listener, keen to understand and meet the needs of the client and the brief
→ Able to make smart connections between what’s going on in the world and what we do for our clients
→ The desire and ability to push everything you do: your own creative, the boundaries of your ideas or other team members ideas and abilities – avoiding the comfort zone
→ Strong, innovative, strategic and on-brand ideas, storytelling and system thinking
→ Articulate, confident and assertive in presenting work
→ Highly collaborative, able to build strong relationships across every area of the business.

Your attitude
→ Hard working, self-motivated, enthusiastic and willing to throw yourself into any task
→ Good self awareness, ability to recognise areas for improvement or advise senior team members when support is needed
→ Humble, collaborative and receptive to feedback
→ Good understanding and curiosity about possibilities provided by technology, updates and revisions to processes
→ Relentlessly energetic and positive, up for any challenge
→ Curious, always hungry to learn, always ready to share and welcome change
→ Never afraid to offer an opinion — or ask others theirs. You have a point of view, but a healthy appetite for other perspectives, opinions and insights.

Benefits

What’s in it for you:

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and Christmas shutdown.
• Competitive salary with annual reviews.
• Company sick pay up to 5 days per year, otherwise statutory sick pay.
• Life assurance at 4x salary.
• Health cash plan (taxable benefit).
• Professional development budget of £500 per annum.
• Participation in the company reward scheme, subject to annual profitability targets.
• Tech scheme and cycle to work scheme (salary sacrifice).

The finer details:

• This is hybrid role only – operating 2 days flexible working and 3 days studio time at Paintworks 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.