Motion Graphics Designer
Summary
Motion Graphics Designer at Jobberman, a Nigerian recruitment platform, produces animated content — typography, logos, titles, infographics, and short-form social videos — for channels like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Day to day they animate static brand assets, build reusable motion templates, and lead projects from storyboard to delivery.
Summary
Responsibilities
- Design and execute animated content for social media, digital campaigns, websites, presentations, events, and marketing materials.
- Convert creative briefs and campaign objectives into compelling animated visuals.
- Produce animated typography, logos, titles, transitions, icons, illustrations, infographics, and visual effects.
- Generate short-form motion assets specifically optimized for platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook.
- Develop animated promotional materials for products, services, events, announcements, and brand initiatives.
- Partner with graphic designers, video editors, content creators, and marketing teams to create unified visual content.
- Animate static designs, illustrations, photographs, and brand assets to bring them to life.
- Build reusable motion templates and animated assets to ensure consistency across various campaigns and platforms.
- Enhance video productions by adding lower thirds, title sequences, transitions, overlays, and animated backgrounds.
- Utilize core animation principles, including timing, typography, composition, sound, and visual effects to deliver polished results.
- Adapt motion graphics to suit various formats, screen dimensions, aspect ratios, and platform specifications.
- Edit and refine visual assets by integrating animation, effects, and transitions as needed.
- Formulate creative concepts and storyboards prior to production when required.
- Ensure all motion deliverables adhere to the organization's brand guidelines and maintain a consistent visual identity.
- Collaborate on audio elements, including music, voiceovers, and sound effects, to maximize the impact of the content.
- Iterate on animations based on feedback from management and cross-functional teams.
- Oversee multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring high-quality output is delivered within established deadlines.
- Keep abreast of motion design trends, animation techniques, software updates, and emerging creative technologies.
- Organize and maintain project files, source materials, templates, and motion assets.
- Lead assigned projects from the initial concept and storyboard phase through production, revisions, and final delivery.
Requirements
- Proficiency in creating engaging motion graphics and animations for various digital and marketing channels.
- Ability to interpret creative briefs and translate concepts into effective animated content.
- Strong skills in developing animated text, logos, titles, transitions, icons, illustrations, infographics, and visual effects.
- Experience producing short-form content optimized for major social media and video platforms.
- Capability to create animated promotional materials for diverse business initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including design, video, and marketing.
- Expertise in transforming static assets into dynamic motion graphics.
- Skill in creating reusable motion templates to ensure brand consistency.
- Competence in enhancing video productions with professional visual elements.
- Solid understanding of animation principles, including timing, composition, and visual effects.
- Flexibility to adapt content for different formats and platform requirements.
- Proficiency in editing and enhancing visual assets with animation and effects.
- Ability to develop creative concepts and storyboards.
- Commitment to maintaining brand guidelines and visual identity standards.
- Experience working with audio elements to enhance motion content.
- Strong revision skills based on stakeholder feedback.
- Excellent project management capabilities to handle multiple tasks within deadlines.
- Proactive approach to staying current with industry trends and new technologies.
- Organizational skills for managing project files and assets.
- Capacity to own projects from concept through final delivery.