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Creative Automation Motion Designer (12 months FTC)

DEPT

London, England · PCCA · Hybrid · Posted Oct 14, 2026

At a glance

Workplace
Hybrid
Location
London, England · PCCA

About the role

  • This role is dedicated exclusively to Creative Automation—using technology to produce creative assets at scale within the Global Studios team.
  • You will be designing and animating templates in Adobe After Effects that integrate with Lightspeed, a proprietary automation engine, to render the assets at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Build reusable creative automation templates in Adobe After Effects.
  • Help solve creative challenges with novel and clever technical solutions.
  • Become an expert in Lightspeed—our proprietary Adobe After Effects extension for building and designing creative automation templates.
  • Take pride in your work and have excellent project file 'housekeeping' skills — name your layers!
  • Be an ambassador of the entire creative automation team.

Requirements

  • A portfolio demonstrating creative projects with a clear technical aspect.
  • A deep understanding of Adobe After Effects.
  • Comfortable writing and using expressions in After Effects.
  • Knowledge of the basic principles of JavaScript.
  • A keen interest in and knowledge of third party scripts, plugins and extensions for Adobe software.
  • Proactive and self-motivated with strong initiative.
  • Eager to learn and develop new and existing skills.
  • Meticulous attention to detail.
  • Independent and confident, but works well with others.
  • Process-driven and a great communicator.

Benefits

  • An excellent salary based on experience and equal pay policies
  • Pension, free private healthcare, mental health support, and company sick pay scheme
  • 26 days paid holiday (plus UK Bank Holidays)
  • Season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme
  • Enhanced family friendly policies to support new parents
  • Social and Cultural Events
  • Inspirational Talks
  • Learning and Development
  • Buddy Programme
  • Global annual DEPT® Cares Month

Workplace

  • Flexible, hybrid working policy (2 days from the office, depending on location)

Skills

  • Adobe After Effects
  • JavaScript

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Creative Automation Motion Designer (12 months FTC)

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