Creative Automation Designer

Creative Automation Designer

London or Manchester, Hybrid

This position sits in our Marketing & Technology service based in London. We combine data, technology, creative content, and paid media to crack brands’ business problems & drive revenue through a variety of digital marketing solutions like ad campaigns, augmented reality, and chatbots. Our clients include ASOS, Just Eat Takeaway, Twitch, TikTok, and The White Company. 

JOB PURPOSE

This role is dedicated exclusively to Creative Automation—using technology to produce creative assets at scale. As someone with proven experience in the motion design and animation industry, you will be designing and animating templates (primarily using Adobe After Effects and other apps in the Adobe Creative Suite), which ultimately link to our proprietary data feeds to render the assets at scale.

You don’t necessarily need past experience in Creative Automation itself, but you need to be naturally curious, technically-minded, and eager to experiment. We’d like someone who sees automation as an opportunity to not just boost efficiency, but a chance to elevate the underlying creative direction and execution, too.

We’re looking for candidates who never shy away from a challenge, are excited to find new and novel solutions to creative problems and who, most importantly, enjoy the more technical side of motion design and animation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build reusable creative automation templates in Adobe After Effects.
• Use Adobe After Effects expression controls, expressions, pseudo effects and essential graphics to create highly customisable, but lean templates.
• Solve creative challenges and automation with novel and clever technical solutions.
• Become an expert in Lightspeed™ — our proprietary Adobe After Effects extension for building and designing creative automation templates.
• Take pride in your work and have excellent project file ‘housekeeping’ skills — name your layers!
• Suggest ways to improve and enhance our processes.
• Be an ambassador of the entire creative automation discipline and department.

SKILLS & PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Design & Technical

• Proven experience in the motion design and animation industry.
• A strong working knowledge of Adobe After Effects and its many workflows.
• The ability to independently write and understand intermediate to advanced expressions in Adobe After Effects.
• A well rounded knowledge of the basic principles of JavaScript and experience writing simple scripts in After Effects using ExtendScript.
• A keen interest in and knowledge of third party scripts, plugins and extensions for Adobe software.

Attitude & Personality

• Proactive and self-motivated with strong initiative.
• Eager to learn and develop new and existing skills.
• Unparalleled and meticulous attention to detail.
• Independent and confident, but works well with others.
• Process-driven and a great communicator.
• Ability to adapt to environments and projects.

Bonus

• Exposure to Creative Automation.
• Experience working with Celtra or Smartly.
• Knowledge of other high-level programming languages such as TypeScript or Python.
  

HEALTH, WELLBEING & BENEFITS

• Possibilities to do what you do best and to develop your skills further with training development and certifications
• A flexible, hybrid working policy
• The choice of medical healthcare providers (Bupa or Medicash) 
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and your birthday off each year
• Company pension scheme 
• EAP scheme
• Ride to work scheme 
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Buddy Program: You will be paired with a ‘Buddy’ to help you through your first weeks’ at DEPT®
• Global Annual DEPT® Cares Day which cadets can donate their skills to support local charities
• Other soft benefits including, refreshments provided in the office and a social calendar with weekly and monthly events on a team and agency level 

WHO ARE WE? 

We are pioneers at heart. What does that mean? We are always looking forward, thinking of what we can create tomorrow that does not exist today. We were born digital and we are a new model of agency, with a deep skillset in tech and marketing. That’s why we hire curious, self-driven, talented people who never stop innovating. 

Our culture is big enough to cope and small enough to care. Meaning, that with people across 30+ countries, we’re big enough to provide you with the best tools, global opportunities, and benefits that help you thrive. While acting small by investing in you, your growth, your team, and giving you the autonomy to solve our clients problems, no matter where you are in the world.

DEPT® is committed to making a positive impact on the planet and since 2021 has been Climate Neutral and B Corporation certified.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION 

At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives.

Not sure you meet all qualifications? Apply, and let us decide! Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs when they think they may not meet every requirement, when in fact they do. We believe in giving everyone a fair chance to shine. 

We also encourage you  to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us.

Want to know more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion? Check out our efforts here.