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Video Graphic Designer / Animator

The Telegraph 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom

Onsite Full-time Mid-level

The graphic designer/animator will create fast-turnaround motion graphics and visual assets to enhance video news storytelling. They will collaborate with the video desk and design department to ensure visual consistency across all platforms while meeting editorial and brand standards.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver fast turn-around motion design graphics elements to help our video news producers tell stories visually
  • Proactively suggest design solutions for stories of interest to The Telegraph audience
  • Balance their workload across a mixture of fast-turnaround productions and long-lead video projects for use on The Telegraph apps, site and social media platforms
  • Deliver graphics and motion designs quickly and accurately to tight deadlines, particularly for breaking news
  • Develop a close working relationship with the design team and to act as a key communication link between the video desk and relevant designers
  • Work with the Telegraph design department to help evolve existing language into motion assets, and suggest new opportunities within this framework

Requirements

  • Motion designer with experience creating motion graphics/design on tight deadlines
  • Organised and willing to take direction - but also full of ideas and able to inspire a brief
  • A collaborative team player who is interested in helping share their skills with others, and who welcomes feedback and discussion about ideas
  • Entrepreneurial with a self-starting attitude
  • A solid knowledge of a range of social platforms
  • Has in-depth knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and their industry standard plugins, with a working knowledge of Premiere Pro and AE/PP pipelines

Benefits

  • Dynamic working opportunities
  • Medical cover
  • Parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave)
  • Life assurance
  • Season ticket loans
  • Training and development opportunities through The Academy
  • Access to a variety of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance

Key Skills

Motion design Graphic design Visual storytelling Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe After Effects Premiere Pro AE/PP pipelines Social media Collaboration Communication Time management Organisation Entrepreneurial spirit Self-starting attitude Design thinking User-centered design Prototyping Wireframing Design systems User research Usability testing A/B testing

About The Telegraph

The Telegraph’s mission is to provide content that inspires people to have the perspective they want to progress in life. It delivers quality, trusted, award-winning journalism, 24 hours a day, across its digital and print properties as well as through leading digital partners. Founded in 1855, The Telegraph has built a diversified commercial model, with equal strength in advertising, subscriptions and circulation, commerce, and events. In 1994, The Telegraph launched an online offering, the first UK publisher to do so. The launch in 2016 of a digital subscriptions model, with clearly defined open and premium content, has enhanced its ability to offer both scale and engagement to support this diversified approach. The Telegraph’s portfolio includes The Telegraph website and app, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph print titles, and The Telegraph Edition app which offers a digital replication of the newspapers. 27.2 million Britons consume content across the portfolio monthl

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