Motion Designer (Middleweight or Senior)

Details

Full time

10-6 Monday to Friday

Middleweight or Senior

Salary brackets (dependent on experience)

Middleweight £33,000-£38,000

Senior £38,000-£45,000

+ Annual bonus + Paid overtime

Location: Hybrid (Office/WFH) London, Shoreditch (Old St)

Start Date: Flexible

Benefits Package

Financial Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus (approximately £1000-£4000 per year dependent on annual profit and time with the company)
• Paid overtime is available in 3 brackets. Weekdays overtime between 6pm-10pm is paid at 1.25 x your hourly rate. Weekdays after 10pm is 1.5x your hourly rate. Any hours worked on a weekend 2x your hourly rate
• 15% Commission on new business
• Pension: 3% employer contribution with Nest

Flexible Working

• Hybrid + flexible hours (most staff do 4 days in the studio per month as a minimum but you can work more days from the office if you wish)
• Remote working from a home country, up to 2 weeks per year

Leave Benefits

• 28 days annual leave increased to 33 days after 3 years of employment
• Seasonal holiday bonus of 2-3 days paid time off over Christmas
• Enhanced new parent leave policy which applies to all staff regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression

Wellbeing Benefits

• Pastoral support with external company: monthly 30 minute sessions available to support the wellbeing and mental health needs of staff
• Medicash plan: providing reimbursements for everyday medical costs including dental, optical, prescriptions, physical therapies and complementary therapies with a value of up to £1815 amount per year
• Free lunch provided at the studio
• Annual Summer + Christmas parties

Personal Development Benefits

• Research fund: £300 minimum per person per year to be used on research-related expenses including; live music, exhibitions, performances, cultural publications and short courses
• Studio Moross Personal Development Plan - which includes monthly checkins to work on career goals, and quarterly meetings with Aries and the management team to work on your career development. This creates a platform for two way feedback and opportunities to discuss anything regarding work and the workplace with senior management
• Masterclass membership

Schemes

• Tech scheme: allows you to choose from a huge range of technology, then spread the cost with payments from your salary across 12 months and make a National Insurance saving of up to 12%
• Cycle to work scheme: a one year hire agreement for a cycle and accessories worth up to £2,000, done via salary sacrifice with an option to purchase cycle at the end of the agreement
• Season ticket loan: an interest free loan for the purpose of purchasing an annual season ticket for travel between home and work

Further info and details on all policies can be requested via email and provided if you move forward in the hiring process.

About us

Studio Moross is 11+ person design studio based in Shoreditch, East London. The current team is 2 motion designers, 3 graphic designers, 3 project managers, a creative director, studio manager and assistant. We work predominantly in music, TV, and live, with a strong focus on branding and art direction.

We support people in creating a job role that works for them and meets their interests and aspirations. There is often emerging talent working as part of the team, being nurtured through internships, work experience and mentorship programs. Our open and fair office culture is an imperative part of the fabric that makes up Studio Moross.

The well-being of our staff is just as important to us as the work we produce. We recognise that the creative industry is notorious for being a stressful environment with long, unsociable hours - often resulting in unhealthy office culture. So we implement more efficient working days, leading to increased productivity and an all-around happier team. Any work outside of regular office hours is paid, in addition to the base salary.

Studio Moross is devoted to implementing diversity within the company. Studio Moross makes a conscious effort to address imbalances within the creative world by challenging all forms of oppression. Understanding higher systematic forces at play and hiring accordingly is crucial to our core values.

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role but do not meet every qualification listed, we still encourage you to apply.

Job Role

We are looking for a motion designer to join the video team at Studio Moross. We hope to find someone with 4 or more years experience in a moving image role (permanent or freelance).

This role will suit someone that feels they haven’t been able to explore their creativity in their current job, or someone who is looking for a supportive team to work with and learn from after a period of freelancing. You will primarily be working on music videos, title sequences, broadcast design, live visuals, promos, and installations.

This job will bring exciting opportunities to develop your creativity and then implement it in a collaborative environment with the support of the rest of the team. Seeing a project from start to finish, and then published on TV or on a stage is a huge part of the job. There is often the opportunity to travel as part of this role.

Software

Excellent skills in After Effects, plus supporting applications such as Adobe Premiere, Illustrator and Photoshop. Any experience using 3D would be a welcome bonus, we often use Cinema 4D with Octane or Redshift in our work.

Tasks

• Designing and writing pitches and treatments with the team
• Motion design and animation
• Creating live visuals for music shows using animation and live action footage
• Editing and treating video for online platforms and broadcast
• Contribution to the early creative process, ideation and direction
• Collaboration with the internal team, external freelancers and other partners
• Communication and meeting with bands, management, record labels and brands to relay ideas, collect and respond to feedback
• Attending onsite production rehearsals across the world for TV and live music performances
• Working with internal team and our extended team of freelancers giving feedback, delegating and contributing to all motion projects

Clients

Riot Games, Kylie, MTV, Spice Girls, VMAs, Disclosure, Sam Smith, Parklife, Netflix, Nike, Nickelodeon, Uniqlo, Billie Eilish, H.E.R, London Grammar, The BFI, Spotify, Defected Records, Roundhouse, Design Museum and many more.

How We Work

We work quickly and often manage multiple projects at once so you will need to be comfortable multitasking. At Studio Moross our projects have shorter, faster lead times so we often see projects through from start to finish. Our working process is collaborative and we often work as a team to complete projects. With TV and Music clients our turn-arounds are often quick but give us a lot of creative freedom in our work.

What We Don’t Do!

We don’t do a lot of character animation or VFX work. We don’t work with many big corporate brands, so we don’t get weighed down with mammoth projects. This does mean that we are sometimes limited by our budgets, and don’t have the luxury of lots of research and development - our ideation is quick and relies on the confidence and creativity of our team members. We turn around work quickly - so we don’t get time to be super precious, the plus side to that is you will see work out in the world and so will your peers, and that is a very rewarding part of the job.

Diversity & Inclusion

Studio Moross is a place that celebrates and champions people’s individuality, where opportunities for development and progress are available to all and everyone’s talents can be utilized and celebrated.

We aim to create a safe and welcoming place, with an atmosphere of friendship for all people, ensuring we respect, support and care for each other and the people we work with, including our visitors, freelancers, third parties and clients.

We want to challenge all forms of oppression including those based on race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, creed, gender expression, gender reassignment, sex, class, sexuality, learning ability, disability, mental illness, neurodiversity, HIV status, age, occupation, income, wealth, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and parenthood, and unrelated criminal conviction.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and to avoiding unlawful discrimination against our staff or customers. In addition to this we aim to design our activities, services, and decision-making processes specifically to encourage and support participation from people who face a disadvantage in society.

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to accommodate you in the recruitment or interview process.

Accessibility

Studio Moross is located on the ground floor. Directly from the pavement there are four steps up to the front door, and from the rear courtyard entrance there are concrete access ramps leading to the back doors. There is one step down into the studio space, with a collapsible metal ramp. Unfortunately, we do not have an accessible restroom, but it has a wide-set door to improve access. All our restrooms are gender neutral. Our detailed Accessibility Plan is available to read here.