This is a 6 month fixed term employee contract initially, with a likelihood of extension.  

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.

JOB PURPOSE

This role is part of our Global Studios team. We create emotive yet conversion-focused ideas, products and campaigns at scale and speed. Our specialty is hyper-personalised, digital communications that change perceptions, shape new behaviours, and shift market share for our clients.

As a Senior Motion Designer, you will create engaging animations and static designs for global campaigns, collaborating with a creative team to deliver high-quality work. You will manage projects from concept to delivery, ensuring both creative excellence and technical precision.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Collaborate with the team to understand project requirements and deliver motion graphics, typography, and video animations. Comfort with static design is a plus.
• Work within templates while maintaining creative freedom, ensuring organized and efficient files.
• Bring storyboards to life using After Effects, managing assets and meeting deadlines.
• Align designs with trends and culture across various platforms and formats.
• Stay up-to-date with design trends and integrate them into your work.
• Develop and animate 15-second ads for Meta platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, following Meta's ad standards.
• Use Figma for storyboarding concepts and After Effects for animation, ensuring a smooth workflow.
• Create and modify After Effects templates, including brand templates, and develop new ones as needed.
• Set motion direction for campaigns, balancing template-based and conceptual work.
• Manage and mentor junior designers, offering guidance and feedback.

WHAT YOU BRING:

• 4+ years of experience in motion/graphic design.
• Strong portfolio with completed animation projects.
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator).
• Experience in animating vector, photographic, and 3D assets.
• Solid video editing skills and understanding of animation fundamentals.
• Strong design aesthetic with the ability to combine typography, color, and layout.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and time-management skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable working on Meta advertisements, including paid ads and stories.

WE OFFER

• A flexible, hybrid working policy
• An excellent salary based on experience and equal pay policies
• Mental health support, and company sick pay scheme.
• 15 days paid holiday annually (plus Public Holidays).
• Refreshments are provided in the office all week.
• Enhanced family friendly policies to support new parents.
• Social and Cultural Events, plenty of opportunities to connect with colleagues through organised activities and celebrations.
• Inspirational Talks, bringing the outside in with regular guest speakers and events.
• Learning and Development, supporting your growth with continuous opportunities to learn and advance.
• Buddy Programme: You will be paired with a ‘Buddy’ to help you through your first weeks’ at DEPT®.
• A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021 and named ‘Agency of the Year’ at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards.
• Awesome clients. Whether big or small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries. And we celebrate all of our successes together!
• The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.
• Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.

WHY DEPT®?

We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA.

We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter.

At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build.

AI Disclosure: At DEPT®, we use AI-assisted technology (Metaview) to capture notes and summarize interview conversations, so our interviewers can stay fully focused. Using the AI is optional, just let us know if you’d prefer it not be used.

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.

We are open to remote candidates located within PST to GMT time zones.

At Metalab, we design some of the world’s most beloved digital products. From zero-to-one startups to global enterprises, we help teams invent categories, launch bold ideas, and build products people love.

Now, we’re looking for a Senior Brand Designer own the direction of our visual brand and to help us tell those stories.

This is not a traditional marketing design role. It’s a narrative-driven brand design position embedded within our marketing team. Your job is to translate product thinking, design craft, and strategic impact into visual stories that earn attention and drive new business.

You’ll own and evolve how Metalab shows up in the world. From case studies and launch moments to showreels, landing pages, campaigns, and social storytelling, you’ll craft the visual narratives that showcase our work at the level it deserves.

You are a designer who believes great storytelling is design. You sweat the details, understand product deeply, and you know how to turn complex flows, systems, and strategy into clear, compelling, emotionally resonant stories.

This role reports directly to Marketing and works closely with Brand, Product Design, Client Partners, and Leadership. You’ll be deeply connected to the wider design team, with opportunities for mentorship and continued growth.

Why This Role Matters

Metalab has shaped products worth billions. But great work only creates opportunity when it’s told well.

This role ensures our story is told with the same level of intention, craft, and ambition as the products we design.

If you care about narrative. If you believe design is what makes products unforgettable. If you want to shape how one of the industry’s most respected product design studios shows up in the world, we’d love to talk.

What You’ll Do

• Own the creative strategy and visual direction for all Metalab marketing initiatives.
• Translate complex product work into compelling, story-driven visual narratives.
• Craft high-impact case studies, landing pages, showreels, campaign assets, social content, and thought leadership visuals.
• Evolve and safeguard the Metalab brand across every public touchpoint.
• Collaborate with product designers and client teams to extract the strongest stories from our work.
• Guide motion direction and interaction storytelling across web and video.
• Ensure everything we put into the world reflects the quality, craft, and ambition of our client work.
• Experiment with emerging tools and formats, including AI-assisted workflows, to push our storytelling forward.
• Raise the creative bar internally and contribute to the broader design culture at Metalab.

Who You Are 

• A narrative thinker. You see structure, pacing, and emotional arcs in design.
• A brand or graphic designer with strong digital / product literacy. You understand UX, systems, motion design and what it takes to ship digital products.
• Obsessed with craft and quality. You notice what others miss.
• Comfortable owning creative direction while collaborating cross-functionally.
• Confident presenting and defending design decisions to internal stakeholders and leadership.
• Energized by feedback and iteration.
• Curious about new tools, formats, and technologies, including AI.

Must-Haves

• 5+ years of experience in brand, visual, graphic, or digital design.
• A portfolio that demonstrates strong visual design work and narrative-driven storytelling.
• Experience designing marketing websites, case studies, social assets, or campaign work for digital products or services.
• Mastery of Figma and fluency in the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Strong motion and interaction sensibilities. Experience with tools like After Effects, Lottie, Rive, Blender, or similar tools is an asset.
• Experience building scalable brand systems that extend across product and marketing.
• Ability to translate strategic thinking into clear, compelling visual systems.
• Strong presentation skills, both written and verbal.

Nice-To-Haves

• Experience working at a product design agency or in a high-growth startup.
• Motion, 3D, or experimental digital storytelling skills.
• Comfort writing or shaping strategic and creative copy.