Junior Motion Graphic Designer

**Description**

As a Junior Motion Graphic Designer, you will join our Creative Team within the Footasylum Marketing Department. You will be working to generate motion solutions to enhance Footasylum’s creative campaigns both instore and online and overseeing the full rollout from concept to store.

Working within the Creative Team demands a range of responsibilities including answering marketing briefs and collaborating with the Studio team to ensure all campaigns come to fruition. To be successful in this role you should be able to clearly communicate your ideas, effectively implement feedback and be receptive to changing consumer needs and industry trends.

Role Overview
- Creating store screen content across all stores including new flagship store launching this year.
- Translate briefs, creative and copy into animated executions that are in line with the creative concept.
- Generate 2D and 3D graphics that can be used for stills and video.
- Provide direction on motion and graphic campaign roll out solutions and communicate them to the Artwork and Video teams.

**The Team**

The Creative team functions as a part of the larger Marketing department and we work extremely closely with Brand, Ecommerce and the Studio team to bring campaigns to the life.

Reporting into the Creative Manager, you will have weekly meetings to discuss ongoing workload and goal setting. You will also have the opportunity for quarterly meetings to discuss longer term strategy and goal setting.

Our goal is to create an environment in which you can learn new skills, gain experience in existing ones and improve your knowledge of the consumer continually. You will be supported in your journey and will be pushed to take on new challenges and expand your knowledge.

The Studio is a dynamic and exciting place to work with every day being different. We have eComm running daily, as well as teams working on social and creative photoshoots. The team strive to create amazing content, always wanting to progress and develop their skills. Teamwork is huge over at the studio. We work collaboratively, supporting and encouraging one another to produce work which we are proud of. It is a fast-paced environment with new jobs being discussed, planned, and shot every day.

**About You**

A perfect opportunity for someone wanting to challenge themselves to take the next steps in their creative career, looking to soak up the experience but not afraid to challenge the norm with consumer and cultural input. Ideally you will have some proven work experience as motion graphic designer or similar.

We are looking for someone to bring vibrance and energy into a studio environment and have the confidence to art direct in a busy on set environment.

To be successful in this role you should be able to confidentially communicate your ideas, successfully implement feedback and be receptive to changing consumer needs and industry trends.

You will have some proven knowledge of After Effects, knowledge of Cinema 4D or equivalent, (desired not essential). Have an attention to detail in colour, typography and layout. Be able to work with 2D and 3D graphics and motion design and be able to work from brand guidelines and generate ideas from scratch.

A key area we would like you to be able to demonstrate is the ability to grasp industry trends and have a passion for streetwear and footwear to truly get under the skin of our community.

**Why Footasylum?**

We are one of the leading omni-channel retailers across the UK, but more than that we are a brilliant place to work. We value you and your development. We have loads of examples of people moving upwards, across to other departments and given training to excel their personal and professional skills. Our aim is to create a fun environment, where your success is paramount to ours and you are given the right tools, support and platform to achieve your goals.

**Diversity**

We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building services to customers and the wider business. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences and backgrounds.

**Recruitment Process**

With the COVID-19 situation beginning to abate, our teams are all working a in a hybrid mix of office and home working, adjusting to this new way of working as best we can - and as such we’ll help make the interview process as clear and stress-free as possible, giving you the same opportunity as if we were meeting face to face.

We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that this is the opportunity for you.

Please note, this is not a remote role and our expectation is that you wil