Senior Designer

Framestore’s Chicago studio is expanding our staff Design team, and are looking for a Senior Designer to join our busy facility working across a diverse range and high-end creative content.

The Senior Designer is a design generalist with broad experience across motion design and concept/style frames for use in a diverse range of projects within our Integrated Advertising division.

The Senior Designer must have excellent communication skills and technical knowledge while having relevant experience in a commercials or similar design environment. They will create compelling and unique motion graphics and style/pitch frames for clients in a fast paced artist driven environment, creating both static and moving imagery as part of the pitching and execution process.

The Senior Designer will be expected to take creative direction from project leads and produce the necessary imagery and animations to fulfill the brief while delegating necessary deliverables to junior designers and overseeing their progress. They must be able to clearly and effectively lead juniors while creating the highest quality work under tight deadlines.

This is a full-time staff role with benefits and working on a hybrid work model with some days in office and some days remote, ideal candidates will be based locally in Chicago, but open to discussing a fully remote agreement for the right individual.

 Responsibilities:

• Create highly engaging and complex motion graphics animations for a diverse array of projects

• Conceptualize and produce design projects with internal Creative Directors as well as directly with clients

• Curate and develop imagery and motion tests for pitches and layout for presentations

• Lead and work independently on design projects, or part of a larger team on the design focused areas of some projects

• Support in training and developing others in the use of motion graphics and design software

• Keeping up to date with advancements in motion graphics animation as well as new technologies and techniques as well as being on the pulse of contemporary trends in motion design

• Able to manage time effectively and give accurate assessments of the workload and the time required to complete tasks

Requirements

• Excellent conceptual designer and thinker, with 3 - 6 years experience, a sharp eye for modern graphic design, composition, and typographic layout.

• Expert in Adobe CS including: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects

• Hands on sketching, storyboarding, loose wireframing skills

• Strong Cinema4D generalist skills (modeling / texturing / rendering / compositing) - Maya knowledge is a plus

• Experience collecting and narrowing down reference material and building decks for pitches

• Ability to quickly and effectively communicate design concepts in writing and in person

• A basic understanding of CG - must be able to work together with CG artists to help drive creative

• Ability to turn around multiple concepts in a variety of styles and to take creative direction/revisions as needed

• You must have a viewable portfolio of both static and moving imagery for consideration

• Working independently and in collaboration with other artists

• Must be self-motivated and a collaborative team player

• Excellent problem solving skills

• Ability to work under tight deadlines in an artist driven collaborative workplace

• Dependable and flexible, dedicated to creating the highest quality images possible

Framestore is proud to employ extraordinary talent across all genders, races, nationalities, religions, ages, abilities and sexual preferences. We aim to encourage and support all of our current and future employees to achieve their potential. No job applicant will receive less favourable treatment on any basis when applying for a career with us.