Motion Graphics Designer - The Telegraph
The Marketing Design team sits at the heart of brand storytelling at The Telegraph. We shape how the brand shows up on the market and connect our journalism to audiences through powerful, creative, and high-performing campaigns.
We’re now looking for a Motion Designer to join the team, someone who can help us bring campaigns and digital storytelling to life through compelling, expressive, and effective motion work. This role will work across marketing campaigns, digital platforms, paid media, newsletters, and in-product journeys, using motion to amplify impact, improve experience, and reinforce our brand across every touchpoint.
This is a key hire that will give us a long-missing in-house capability and help push our creative output forward across both brand and performance activity.
Key Responsibilities- Deliver impactful motion design for brand and subscription campaigns across video, digital, email, social, and paid channels
- Collaborate with graphic designers, campaign leads, video editors, copywriters, and other stakeholders to bring campaign concepts to life
- Translate static creative into motion across a variety of formats: short-form video, animated assets, typographic treatments, transitions, and digital modules
- Contribute to creative ideation, story-boarding, and exploration across the full design process
- Develop scalable, reusable motion templates and systems to support always-on campaign work (e.g. newsletters, offer refreshes, social series)
- Help shape how the Telegraph brand expresses itself in motion across marketing touch-points
- Present work clearly and confidently to internal stakeholders and contribute to feedback sessions
- Deliver work with a high level of craft, accuracy, and attention to detail, even under tight deadlines
- Become the main point of contact for all video and motion graphics contributions within the
- A portfolio showcasing creative motion design across brand, campaign, or editorial projects
- Full proficiency in Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro
- Typographic sensibility and ability to think conceptually as well as visually
- Ability of elevating the team’s motion design capabilities and willingness to share knowledge through collaboration, feedback, and informal mentoring
- Proficiency using Figma, Illustrator, and Photoshop
- Strong communication and time management skills
- Comfort in working at pace and navigating ambiguity, adapting quickly to shifting priorities, briefs, and levels of definition
Benefits
The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities.From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.
Training and development
With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.
Our commitment to inclusion
At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.
To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.