Motion Design Director

We are currently seeking a Motion Design Director to join our team. Could this be you?

About us

As a company with studios across the globe, we power up the best minds from 31 teams in over 22 countries to create a unique skillset for each client. We spark ingenuity with global creative sprints that cross time zones and borders and spur on the best of our talent. That includes exceptional brand consulting and strategic design, brilliance in experience, retail and workplace design, and competition-smashing motion design. We are part of the WPP group.

The role

The Motion Design Director will explore and conceptualize design options and solutions that maintain Landor & Fitch’s vision and creative beliefs– ‘great ideas expertly and beautifully crafted and delivered with rigor and flair’. You will be a part of our leadership team of Directors and fellow Designers, evaluate design options, develop and push to find ‘big ideas’ based on design strategy and the creative brief. You will create high-impact presentations with compelling visual and verbal storytelling. You will develop straightforward design approaches to complex design challenges across brand development, corporate identity, mobile, digital and user experience design projects. You will create conceptual designs, developing storyboards collaborating with a team and executing high-quality motion graphics and animations.

What we’re looking for                  

• A Motion Design Director who has 10 years of experience designing agile brands, and 8 years of broad creative and management experience (required) with a global sophistication and the ability to adapt to different cultures.
• You hold a BFA or similar is graphics or motion graphics.
• You are a strategic thinker, understand branding and love it when you really understand a client’s business and arrive at insights that solve their challenges via their brand.
• You perform well in a team environment and foster communication and cohesion between internal teams and functions.  
• You have a love of design: must have passion for creative excellence, branding, and visual communication. 
• You have excellent and current creative and design trend knowledge and skills (from branding identity, digital, to time-based media).
• You’re strong in conceptual thinking and design development, have communication skills and working knowledge of graphic design, digital media and motion design.
• You work well within large teams and independently and participate and contribute in design critiques.
• You are an excellent communicator.
• You have outstanding technical skills with Adobe Creative Suite; familiarity with new media technology/software is a plus.
• You are capable of collaborating confidently with other agency and supplier team members and have a passion for cracking tough strategic and design problems.
• You can create strategic and creative solutions that supports project goals.
• You understand B2B and B2C businesses.

Finally - our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We believe diversity brings creativity, which is at the heart of everything we do. We are actively engaging in creating an environment free of discrimination, where our people and their uniqueness can shine and be celebrated. We’re working to set a standard for the industry as a whole, creating a culture of equity and belonging. We may not be perfect, and we know there is work to do, but we regularly check with our teams and Employee Resource Groups on how we are doing, using their insight to frame our thinking and actions, so we can all do better, working as one Landor & Fitch.