Responsibilities

Design Leadership: Lead design direction across multiple accounts, maintaining creativity, consistency, and craft across every output.

Concept to Execution: Translate creative concepts and briefs into relevant, innovative, and impactful designs across formats and platforms.

Motion and Animation: Animate dynamic content for social platforms; enhance storytelling in video through graphic elements, effects, and transitions.

Art Direction: Guide the visual identity of campaigns and some shoots, ensuring brand guidelines are respected while pushing creative boundaries.

Collaboration: Partner with Producers, Creatives, and Strategists to ensure ideas are executed effectively, on time and on budget.

Mentorship: Support and mentor junior and midweight designers, sharing knowledge and fostering growth within the team.

Client Engagement: Confidently present design work internally and externally, articulating rationale and responding to feedback with clarity.

Innovation: Stay ahead of design trends, emerging platforms, AI design tools, and motion techniques, applying them to elevate our creative output. Continuously improve and evolve our design processes through training, development, and strategic implementation of innovative practices, including emerging technologies and platforms.

Team Management: Lead and manage a dynamic design team, overseeing proactive and reactive creative output, and implementing robust quality control measures to ensure ideas consistently align with social-first concepts and trending content.

Trend Awareness: Maintain a finger on the pulse of social media trends and hooks, integrating fresh insights into the team''s creative output, ensuring relevance and audience engagement.

Qualifications

5+ years experience in a design role (agency or in-house), with a strong focus on digital and social.

Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere).

Advanced familiarity with AI design tools (e.g., MidJourney, Runway, Firefly) and how they can enhance workflow.

Proven expertise in motion design, animation, and visual storytelling.

Experience in art direction and leading creative design sessions/workshops.

Strong client-facing skills: confident presenting, articulating design rationale, and handling feedback.

A portfolio that demonstrates excellence across both still and motion design, tailored for social platforms.

Ability to manage multiple projects at once, balancing creative innovation with delivery against deadlines.

Job Details

Start Date: N/A

Salary: £40,000+

Hours: 38 hours per week, Mon-Fri

Location: Borough, London (hybrid – 2 days in the office per week)

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time

Benefits

Bonuses: Earn up to 20% additional salary through our bonus scheme.

Flexi-working: Work from home 3 days per week, or abroad for up to a month each year.

Holidays: 25 days of holiday, plus an additional holiday day for every year at Spin.

Healthcare: Fully comprehensive private healthcare, including mental health and physiotherapy.

Development: Access to a personal learning and development budget to grow your skills.

Maternity/Paternity: Enhanced parental leave policies and support.

Enhanced pension contributions.

Socials: Team outings, events, and socials planned by our social committee.

Our Values

Always Be Curious: Explore the what-ifs and experiment freely.

Keep Up: Embrace change and move fast.

Uphold High Standards: Take pride in delivering excellence.

Act With Initiative: Spot opportunities and take action.

Show Respect, Always: Value and respect everyone in our people-first business.

At Spin, we foster a vibrant work environment that thrives on diverse perspectives and creative ideas. As strong advocates for inclusion and representation, we actively encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of race, disability, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age. Beyond compliance, we take pride in building a dynamic work environment that fosters creativity and champions inclusion, diversity, and representation.

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