Creative Automation Motion Designer (12 months FTC)
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