Motion Designer - London, United Kingdom - The Telegraph

The Telegraph
The Telegraph
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London, United Kingdom

1 day ago

Tom O´Connor

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About The Role

The Telegraph are looking for a highly creative Motion Designer to help develop our visual language across digital and video.

Be part of a design team where experimentation and learning are encouraged, at a pivotal moment in the development of how we tell stories digitally and across our platforms and products.

Key Responsibilities

  • Creating visual responses to stories in an innovative and highly creative manner
  • Using your skills to elevate and convey our journalism to the highest standard
  • Providing visual guidance and support to producers, editors and journalists to ensure visual excellence across all we do
  • Working to fastpaced deadlines on digital initiatives
  • Collaborating with graphic designers, product designers, video editors, editors and journalists to build narratives using animation and moving image
  • Working closely with designers to bring stories to life in highly visual ways
  • Working with the Creative Director and Deputy Creative Director to develop a leading industry approach to how we use motion graphics in the service of our award winning journalism
  • Developing our visual language through the use of motion and how it applies to our branding and identity within our products
  • Using animation to introduce moments of delight and intrigue to our digital audiences across our experiences, marketing and social media
Key Skills

  • Have an active set of animation skills and an understanding of fundamental animation principles, and be fiercely creative with them
  • Have a mastery of Adobe After Effects and Premiere, including a proven ability to use expressions and construct and design motion templates for Adobe Premiere
  • Have proficiency in translating designs from Figma, Illustrator, and Photoshop into animated visuals in After Effects
  • Thrive in a fast paced environment, with the ability to multitask across multiple news desks and teams
  • Have exceptional organisational skills with the ability to keep project files tidy and orderly for other designers
  • Be interested in current affairs and have a passion for telling stories
  • Be energetic, have an appetite for experimentation and a good sense of fun
  • Have an open minded and receptive approach to innovating and iterating your designs

Benefits:

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here.

From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance, and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development


With support from your manager and colleagues, you'll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy.

Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion


To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.

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