Semi Senior Motion Designer

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. The ideal candidate must have experience working with templated projects, be able to handle fast turnarounds, and excel under tight deadlines.

• 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 the appropriate files according to the given specification.
• 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 identify workflow efficiencies and optimize across pipelines is a plus.

• 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 proficiency in Adobe Suite (After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere) is a MUST.
• Proficiency in Cinema 4D is a plus
• 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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