Semi Senior Motion Designer
Job Overview
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We are looking for a highly organized, detail-oriented Semi-Senior Motion Designer who finds as much beauty in a perfectly organized project file as they do in a smooth animation. In this role, your primary mission is to act as the architect of our visual output. You won’t just be creating videos; you will be building the engines that allow our global campaigns to live across dozens of languages and formats with surgical precision.
You are the bridge between high-end design and massive-scale execution. While you will develop original creative assets, your core focus is on the technical craft of localization, template architecture, and AI-driven automation using the Google ecosystem.
Core Responsibilities
- Master Template Architecture: Design and "bulletproof" complex After Effects templates. You will ensure that layouts, typography, and timings adapt intelligently to varying text lengths and localized content via Expressions and Essential Graphics.
- Precision Localization: Own the end-to-end technical rollout of global campaigns. You will ensure every regional variation is frame-perfect, managing the nuances of different languages and cultural formats with an obsessive eye for detail.
- Workflow Automation: Champion the use of AI-assisted tools to eliminate manual tasks. You will connect data feeds (Sheets/CSV) to creative templates to trigger high-volume renders with minimal manual intervention.
- Asset Scaling & QA: Maintain rigorous organizational standards across massive asset libraries. You are the final line of defense, ensuring that every export—regardless of the quantity—meets our exact technical and brand specifications.
- Strategic Creative Development: Design the foundational "Hero" motion assets that serve as the blueprint for our automated systems, ensuring they are built from the ground up for scalability.
Your Technical Mindset
- The Architect: You believe a project is only as good as its structure. You prioritize clean hierarchies, strict naming conventions, and scalable workflows.
- The Logic Specialist: You have a deep command of After Effects Expressions and scripting, using them to solve layout challenges before they occur.
- The Google Power-User: You are comfortable navigating Google Workspace, and leveraging Gemini/AI tools to optimize creative production.
- Detail Obsessed: You are someone who naturally spots a 1-pixel misalignment or a slight tracking inconsistency across 100+ localized banners.
Experience & Qualifications
- 3 years of experience in an agency or fast-paced in-house creative team.
- A portfolio demonstrating high-end motion work alongside examples of dynamic/programmatic creative projects.
- Proven track record of managing "Creative at Scale" (localizing content for multiple regions or AB testing).
- A "hacker" mindset—always looking for a way to automate a repetitive task.
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About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.