Motion Designer
DEPT · Budapest ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Category
- Design
- Company size
- 1000+
Motion Designer at DEPT's Budapest studio who sets motion art direction — shaping visual concepts, styleframes, and high-quality animated campaign work from idea to final delivery. Core tool is After Effects (Premiere Pro/DaVinci Resolve editing a plus); 2 years of agency experience is required.
Budapest
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 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 EasyJet, eBay, INEOS, Logitech, L’Oréal, Roblox, Walkers and Zalando.
As a Motion Designer, you will set Motion Art Direction through ideas, motion, visuals, and narrative. You bring strong art direction thinking and high level motion craft together to shape concepts from early thinking to final execution. You care about story, framing, and how visuals communicate over time. You push ideas forward while actively involved in the work.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Shape the visual and motion direction of projects from concept to delivery
- Develop strong creative ideas rooted in narrative, pacing, and visual structure
- Design and animate high quality motion work across campaigns and formats
- Define look and feel, styleframes, and motion language for projects
- Collaborate closely with designers, creatives, and other disciplines
- Guide motion execution to keep work aligned with the original creative intent
- Stay curious of new tools, references, and techniques across motion and visual design
WHAT YOU BRING:
- Strong visual judgement and confidence contributing to concepts and creative direction. Art direction experience showing how you’ve helped craft the visual story of your work
- Experience as a motion designer with a clear art direction mindset
- Solid After Effects skills with a good sense of timing, framing, and storytelling. Video editing in Premiere Pro or Davinci Resolve is a plus.
- Experience creating styleframes, visual systems, and narrative driven motion
- Curiosity around AI tools and interest in learning how they can support creative work
- 2 years of agency experience
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment and working within a multi-disciplinary team
- A strong portfolio or showreel showing concept, craft, and high quality motion work
WE OFFER
- Private health insurance and access to a range of healthcare and preventive services.
- Sports & cultural benefits to support your wellbeing and work-life balance.
- Dog-friendly office
- Hybrid working policy
- A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021.
- Awesome clients. Whether big, small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with all of them. 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.
WHO ARE WE?
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.
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.