Role: Motion Graphics Designer - 12 Months FTC

Location: Cape Town, South Africa (hybrid)

ROLE MISSION:

Join our dynamic team as a Motion Graphics designer, where you'll work on major advertising campaigns for a leading fashion brand. Reporting to the Lead Editor, you'll closely collaborate with global and regional teams, producing impactful, high-end content.

We are seeking a highly skilled Motion Graphics Designer with previous adaptation experience working on global brand moving image campaigns. The ideal candidate will be proficient in Adobe After Effects, Premier Pro and Media Encoder with a strong understanding of animation principles and design aesthetics. Ideally the candidate will have experience working with expressions and automation workflows to streamline the production process. A comprehensive understanding of common social media, DOOH, Online Video, TV and Cinema specifications is a must. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate rigorous quality control and pride themselves in producing accurate on brand content.

As Motion Graphic Designer, you will produce high volume campaigns across all moving image channels, ensuring language adaptations are accurately executed, building bespoke requests for local markets, working closely with the Integrated Project Managers to communicate status and flag risk where necessary, championing automation and future-facing WoW.

THIS ROLE IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF... 

You’re someone who thrives on shared successes, especially as part of a team that’s making waves with innovative processes & high-volume delivery. Unexpected turns energise you, and you take challenges head-on, inspiring your entire team to find solutions and stay the course. Your positive spirit keeps your sleeves rolled up, always ready to seize every opportunity.  

You’ll be the kind of person who is driven by producing large volume multi-media campaigns, curating timelines and ensuring high quality creative delivered with maximum efficiency. You’ll be confident with clients and think on your feet. You relish adding value throughout the end-to-end creative process, adding your unique touch at every turn.  

Ideally, you’ll have experience in large-scale accounts in FMCG industries, such as Beauty or Fashion and experience across multiple channels.

 WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE: : 

• Work with in house automation tools to set up large volume campaigns for production.
• Utilising After Affects to manually build bespoke requests for local markets.
• Attending daily stand-ups and receiving briefs to establish daily production quota.
• Updating the Integrated Project Managers of production status, flagging issues and risks where necessary. 
• Produce high volume campaigns across all moving image channels.
• Adapting master files, cropping and rendering to local markets specifications.
• Ensuring all work produced is quality assured and meets brand guidelines.
• Champion automation and future-facing ways of working. 
• Demonstrate an aptitude to learn new software and programmes efficiently and effectively.
• Clear communication to project managers ensuring daily status updates are adhered to.
• Ensuring language adaptations are accurately executed, understanding fundamental typography standards.

WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL : : 

• 4+ years of relevant experience in motion production workflows, covering owned and bought media.
• Experience working with multiple campaigns, languages, and digital channels.
• Demonstrated production experience on global brands. 
• Strong design skills and comprehensive understanding of Adobe After Effects, Media Encoder and Premier Pro and rendering/output settings.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Typography and language adaptation experience
• Proficiency forecasting, resource management and project burn rate.
• Keen eye for detail and quality control.

ABOUT OUR COMPANY

Lots of agencies say they're different. OLIVER is.

OLIVER believes that agencies work better inside a brand's organisation; delivering more effective work at the speed required to drive modern businesses forward. Using our unique Inside Intelligence methodology, we build specialist, dedicated in-house agencies that collaborate with clients to form better marketing solutions.

Established in 2004, our model is now driven by over 4000 people, working across more than 200 in-house agencies globally. Clients include The Guardian, Unilever, Barclaycard, PepsiCo, AXA, The AA, Adidas, BMW, Post Office, and 3M. OLIVER is part of the Inside Ideas Group (IIG), which also includes a global content agency to Adjust your Set, design, experience, and engineering company DARE and property marketing specialists Aylesworth Fleming.

OUR VALUES

We are a company built on our values; we have given you a brief overview below but would love to tell you more.

Be Ambitious to succeed

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work

Be always learning and listening to understand

Be Results-focused to exceed expectations

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations

We've set ambitious, market-leading environmental and social goals around sustainability at OLIVER. We have committed to be net zero by 2030 and take far reaching action on DE&I in the sector. We expect everyone to contribute to our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle. 

Inside Ideas Group and its’ affiliates are equal opportunity employers committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.  All [suitable] applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.