Essence Motion Designer

EssenceMediacom is a global media agency seeking a motion designer with dreams of _easing_ into producing exciting social-first content for some of the world's best-known brands. Got a proven track record of being able to 'make this fly in or something'? You might just be the perfect one to _plugin_ to our expanding team.

**About the role**
Reporting into the Creative Lead, we’re looking for a curious and passionate Motion Designer to join our Creative Systems team. This role will see you work collaboratively with our creative teams, coming up with compelling ideas and bringing them from concept to final delivery. You will create work across motion, design and social materials, for a wide range of local and global brands along with supporting and contributing to agency pitches.

**The responsibilities**
- Work collaboratively with our multi-talent creative team, as well as external partners to deliver compelling concepts and high-quality creative outputs.
- Clearly articulates conceptual and creative approaches, providing clear rationale for their decisions.
- Has a passion for social-first video content, with a deep understanding of the best specs, lengths and practices.
- Thorough understanding of the channels content is being produced for and the importance of producing bespoke vs adapted content.
- Having a finger on the pulse with all things social. Identify opportunities for our clients to get involved in trends, platforms and different creative techniques.
- Build strong and collaborative working relationships with clients and key stakeholders across the business.
- Take on board feedback positively, showing humility and empathy at all times
- Multi-task various projects while maintaining excellent communication
- Detail oriented, ensuring quality control of all internal and external work

**A bit about you**
- Minimum 3+ years experience as a Motion Designer, in an agency or in-house environment.
- Experienced Adobe Creative Suite user, with an expertise in After Effects.
- Has a strong background in motion, design and typography.
- Is a conceptual thinker, who thrives on taking their ideas from concept to final creative output
- Ability to effectively structure and articulate ideas
- The confidence to try new things, bring in new ideas and a passion for big ideas and storytelling
- The ability to work collaboratively in a creative team environment.
- Works well under pressure and can work with tight requirements and deadlines
- Illustration or 3D experience are a bonus, but not essential.

**Who are EssenceMediaCom Creative Systems?**
The newly formed EssenceMediaCom have launched an innovative and new global agency designed to help clients grow in a rapidly evolving media landscape. EssenceMediacom will infuse the digital strategy, data-driven creative, analytics, and technology capabilities of Essence with MediaCom’s world-class scaled multichannel, audience planning and strategic media expertise.

EssenceMediaCom Creative Systems team help our clients ‘See the Bigger Picture’ by bringing together creative and media to drive brand relevance and accelerate growth. This unified approach to media and creativity is integrated with EssenceMediaCom’s Systems Planning approach to ensure maximum marketing effectiveness. Creative Systems is designed to deliver on GroupM’s vision ‘to make advertising work better for people’ and WPP’s Creative Transformation Purpose.

We transform brands through 3 pillars of relevance:
**Cultural relevance** - making brands famous through cultural moments, properties, or personalities

**Personal relevance **- improving the relevance of our communications through personalization

**Platform relevance** - ensuring our content is seen and discovered by optimizing content for commerce, search and social

**GroupM Australia**

GroupM Australia take pride in being a group built on a set of core values that extend to every aspect of our operation. We are committed to providing an empowering workplace

that offers opportunities to learn, succeed and grow. We do this through our dedicated inhouse training team who tailor our programs for every level of employee in every discipline across the group. GroupM is the largest media investment management company in Australia.
- GroupM is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We believe that diversity is vital and positively influences_
- the environment in which we operate. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work_
- environment that is free of discrimination, harassment or bullying. Race, colour, ancestry, religion,_
- gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or veteran_
- status have no bearing on our hiring decisions, we encourage all applicants._