Motion Design Director

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Nexus Productions Full time

Nexus Studios is a renowned global studio in film and experience design. Our world-class talent creates groundbreaking work for entertainment, music, sports, and brands.

We are seeking a highly skilled Motion Design Director to drive design-led work for high-profile brands. As a key member of our team, you will oversee ideation and creative design treatments for branded short-form content and then execute the vision with a talented team.

The ideal candidate will have a multidisciplinary approach, leading the design studio department and influencing design across experience design and motion design film output. You will be hands-on in design and direction as required but also successfully oversee growing teams.

In this client-facing role, you will help shape and evolve Nexus Design Studio as a department within Nexus Studios. To do this, we expect you to work on-site at our studio for at least 3 days per week.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Overseeing and developing creative and motion design solutions for brands, social content, and experience content (including AR/VR/XR). This may require a 24-48 hour topline creative response for LA briefs.
  • Being client-facing; attending creative briefings, pitching concepts, and presenting work to clients. Promoting Nexus Design Studio and Nexus.
  • Creatively directing work yourself or overseeing other people assigned to this role. This involves managing several projects from start to finish, with varying levels of involvement.
  • Signing off on projects before they are presented to the client - Ensuring the quality of all deliverables is of the highest standard.
  • Working with producers to break down a budget, giving accurate time estimates, and suggesting a suitable animation style that hits the brief.
  • Building an environment for your creative team to work in and overseeing their ideas and projects - Managing motion designers alongside the NDS producer.
  • Helping to curate a crew that meets project needs.

This is an overarching CD role. Projects may require an alternate Creative Director to work on a specific project or might be more suited to a rostered Director. In this instance, you will work with the producer, ECD, and Head of Resourcing to assign someone from the Nexus talent pool.

You will:

  • Be an excellent communicator, briefing and translating requirements and feedback between client and team.
  • Have a flexible and can-do attitude, proactively looking at ways to improve creative processes and overall efficiency of the studio.
  • Be creative, ideas-driven, continually curious, and proactive, with a knowledge of and fascination with contemporary and emerging cultural and artistic trends.
  • Stay current on trends, new techniques, and best practices in motion and digital design, integrating those findings into projects.
  • Have a unique creative vision and point of view, demonstrated by a portfolio of outstanding motion graphics work.
  • Have experience delivering high-quality creative with commercial acumen, working for brands in advertising, ideally on branded content.
  • Experience of developing successful responses to briefs, including style frames and writing treatments that win new business.
  • Have a track record of working closely with artists throughout the life of projects, ensuring they understand goals and deadlines for their work and bringing them back on track when required.
  • Be experienced in the production of motion graphics and use 2D & 3D approaches to communicate a brand idea, concept, or story.

Salary: £70,000 - £90,000 per annum

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