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Senior Motion Graphics Designer at Monks is looking to hire an enthusiastic Motion Graphics Designer who will push our assets to a new level.
Must be a tech-focused designer who can consistently deliver innovative, jaw-dropping and thumb-stopping visuals for social and digital. 
This artist should also have a strong passion for music, entertainment, and pop culture. 
The ideal candidate must have experience working with templated projects, be able to handle fast turnarounds, and be able to excel under tight deadlines.
 
Role & Responsibilities

• Working as part of a dedicated client team, you’ll edit and animate campaign and social content for a top-name (and top-secret) brand.
• Design and animate titles, end cards and accompanying graphics for different platforms
• Design and animate social media posts, generating original content from scratch as well as adapting or incorporating provided assets
• Work closely with art directors to concept creative solutions for clients
• Work with the creative team and production to understand project scope and objectives.
• Keeping up to date with latest design/animation techniques
• Adaptation of campaign assets - logo and artwork preparation, retouching, color grading etc.
• Light editing
• Export and deliver appropriate files to the specification given.
• General IT housekeeping of software, plugins, assets, style-guides etc.
• Compliance with guidelines, deadlines and design standards.
• Adhere to internal workflow and process
• Ability to find workflow efficiencies and optimization across the pipelines is a plus.

Requirements

• Must have at least 5+ years of agency advertising experience
• Must be a bright, articulate, self-starter who can take initiative and bring new ideas to the table.
• Must be able to work closely with a team of graphic designers, editors, and art-directors.
• Expert-level proficiency in Adobe After Effects, including expression writing and template creation.
• Solid experience in Cinema 4D (or other 3D tools, with C4D preferred).
• Strong design fundamentals: typography, composition, timing, and visual storytelling.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues in both 2D and 3D workflows.
• Comfortable working in a macOS environment.
• Familiarity with Mac Systems
• Typography, Layout and Design skills
• Experience working within strict brand guidelines, as well as adapting campaign look & feel
• Passionate about design, and a student of social trends
• Possess a willingness to explore multiple options and adapt to stakeholder feedback
• Professional, efficient, organized, detail-oriented, have excellent follow-through, and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Have the ability to work independently and collaboratively and to successfully manage concurrent and competing projects
• You will be expected to adhere to a high level of confidentiality
• Fluent in English

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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.