We are looking for a bright, ambitious, Middleweight-Senior Digital Designer to join our team. You will have the opportunity to work in an incredibly versatile, hardworking and dedicated creative team.

Working on large, well-known brands, as well as smaller, highly creative ones, the successful candidate will work across and help lead digital creative and web design, from IA and UX design to presentation and implementation, through to other projects such as full brand guidelines and print design. You will have an expert understanding and passion for design in the web and digital space, including full proficiency of Adobe suite.

For more information get in touch, we are looking to fill this position immediately.

My client, located in Shoreditch, London, are looking for a mid-level animator/ motion graphic artist to join a fast paced, creative team. They are mid sized studio producing a wide range of live action and animated content; from TV idents and commercials, to music videos and feature film titles as well as online advertising and corporate comms and are looking for a multi-talented, full time motion graphic designer to join their expanding team.

The ideal candidate would have a strong art and design background, at least 3 years experience working with Adobe After Effects and must be comfortable both working alongside a roster of creative directors as well as producing content individually.

Must have:
▪ Stand out portfolio and reel
▪ Strong understanding of design, typography, colour and composition
▪ Excellent knowledge of Adobe After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator
▪ Working knowledge of Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere Pro
▪ Ability to manage multiple projects and tight deadlines
▪ Super organised, detail driven, proactive team member
▪ Bachelors degree in Animation, Motion Graphics, Illustration or similar
▪ Preferably 3 years experience in Motion Graphic design
▪ Experience working with high end camera footage (Red Epic, Arri Alexa etc) is a plus
▪ Knowledge of Cinema4d is a strong plus, other 3d software knowledge may also be useful.
Please note – We are not looking for 3d Character Animators at this time so please only send your most exciting, creative and unique Motion Design reels.

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Creative Lead (f/m)

Salary: tbc
Location: Berlin

Company Overview: International game studio and maker of one the most played games in the world.

Role Overview: We’re hiring for a permanent Creative Director to lead the publishing section on the eSports team of the game studio to apply strategic objectives to creative campaigns and events and to direct a team of internal and external creatives.

You:

• Degree in design and communications related fields
• Passionate and serious game player (this is a very hard requirement here)
• Worked in gaming, entertainment or sports as a lead before
• Strategic thinker with the ability to assess, filter and execute ideas
• Excellent creative with a proven track record in creation of compelling design, branding and content across a variety of mediums
• Hands on, but also enjoying to direct, develop and mentor a team
• Highly driven, well organised and inspiringly communicative
• Sharp attention to detail and a strong drive for quality and perfection
• Team player and able to inspire interplay between people, systems and processes

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Team spirited, community focussed environment
• A lot of play, really a lot of

Terms: Full time permanent, asap

If you are interested, please get in touch with Jörn at RedSofa Berlin:

My client has had their most successful 3 years, growing existing business and winning new business across advertising, direct response, social, digital and CRM. They are already attracting the best strategic and creative brains to take them to the next level so there has never been a better time to join an agency with a client list that includes some huge well respected brands.

With a strong background in real campaigns and an understanding of content, social and digital they are looking for a talented senior creative team with at least 8 years experience to join the fastest growing team in the agency.

With a proven track record on big brands you should be comfortable managing jobs from brief to output, presenting to clients and mentoring younger teams.

The ideal candidates should be able to turn their hand to any challenge and be able to produce great work, of a very high standard within a fast-paced, creative environment.

And while creative talent is obviously a key priority, attitude is equally important. My client are looking for people who are passionate about what they do but are also down to earth. People who can lead by example, inspire and create brilliant work but who want to have a laugh too.

I am looking for 6 x Technical leads for a client of mine.

X 2 – Starting ASAP until Sept
Exposure to a live generative project an advantage, this project deals with generative music output and installations
Experience with 3rd party APIs — project will be integrating with client and developer APIs and software.
Other campaign deliverables include mobile or web app development.
Third party development management.
Inhouse development team management expected as well (not just suppliers).
Will be required to work onsite internationally for several weeks in late Aug- early Sept.
Live events experience a must for this brief.

X 4 – Starting ASAP until Oct/Nov
Rollout of existing software suite
Requirement to learn/train in agencies deployment toolkit
Oversee preparation of applications for site — localisation / functional updates / QA / deployment for QA.
Once onsite, support and install and deploy several existing apps for Content team to prime with custom CMS
Will be required to work onsite
International travel required
“Code experience :
— Vue.js 2x experience / nodejs
— Comfortable with working with ffmpeg and video assets
— Comfortable writing ES6 Javascript”
Experience developing and working with APIs.
Experience working with VR an advantage.

Overview
You will bridge the gap between creative, user experience, developers, hardware team and the physical build production team, as such, the eligible candidate should have a deep technical knowledge with excellent communication skills. You will be key in scoping, designing/architecting and documenting software on the projects you are assigned. You will lead a team of developers and testers from project inception to delivery and go on site to install and manage the support of the software.

Responsibilities

• Ensure coding and documentation standards are met and the deployment pipeline is used continuously through development and always on deployment.
• Ensure release management processes are adhered to.
• Work with and improve processes which help to ensure technical delivery, stability and maintainability within each project.
• Work with project management staff to ensure they are informed of development progress.
• Liaise with QA, feed testing status/results back into dev production.
• Ensure all software is tested before release.
• Provide on-site technical leadership, coordinating the installation of software with the hardware team and debugging problems to resolve.
• Be able to delve into any coding language to fix issues and recompile software under pressure should the need ever arise.

Key Skills:

• At least 5 years in a senior position and 5 successful development cycles from start to finish.
• Cloud development and App Services.
• Experienced in setting up and managing projects from initial concept through to delivery.
• Experienced in managing software engineers of all levels.
• Experienced in managing and working with an outsourced company.
• Passionate about good, clean software architecture.

Key attributes

• Experience of effectively mentoring and managing a multi-discipline development team and working with them to ensure work is completed to spec and to the correct quality.
• Cool, pragmatic head under pressure with the ability to see the way forward when others are lost.
• Ability to keep an eye on the detail even when 5 projects are jostling for your attention.
• Strategic and solutions-focused attitude.

Useful Supporting Skills

• Experiential and events experience.
• Previously delivered/released Apps and AR products.

My client, located in Shoreditch, London, are looking for a mid-level animator/ motion graphic artist to join a fast paced, creative team. They are mid sized studio producing a wide range of live action and animated content; from TV idents and commercials, to music videos and feature film titles as well as online advertising and corporate comms and are looking for a multi-talented, full time motion graphic designer to join their expanding team.

The ideal candidate would have a strong art and design background, at least 3 years experience working with Adobe After Effects and must be comfortable both working alongside a roster of creative directors as well as producing content individually.

Must have:
▪ Stand out portfolio and reel
▪ Strong understanding of design, typography, colour and composition
▪ Excellent knowledge of Adobe After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator
▪ Working knowledge of Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere Pro
▪ Ability to manage multiple projects and tight deadlines
▪ Super organised, detail driven, proactive team member
▪ Bachelors degree in Animation, Motion Graphics, Illustration or similar
▪ Preferably 3 years experience in Motion Graphic design
▪ Experience working with high end camera footage (Red Epic, Arri Alexa etc) is a plus
▪ Knowledge of Cinema4d is a strong plus, other 3d software knowledge may also be useful.
Please note – We are not looking for 3d Character Animators at this time so please only send your most exciting, creative and unique Motion Design reels.

I need a Tech Lead, UX and Producer to take this on, initially bossing a Discovery phase, coming back with a solution for client review, then managing the production of the solution
Web and installation experience will be a must here. In terms of split it’s 50-50 delivery.

Overview
Working with a team of designers, developers, hardware specialist, project and account management staff, you should have a deep technical knowledge with excellent communication skills.

Detailed responsibilities

• Responsible for designing and deploying technical infrastructure under the supervision of Senior Developers
• Responsible for making your code as robust and readable as possible and making sure it fits within the Immersive Tech teams coding standards.
• Coordinating with the Creative Team to build technology and releasable products
• Work with project management staff to ensure they are informed of status of development
• Confident in learning and working with internal bespoke systems

Experience and skills required:

• Strong development skills in delivering a range of software systems, specifically AWS Development with Python.
• Experience building distributed applications underpinned by Celery.
• Integrate applications and data by using AWS serverless services.
• Integrating with WebGL frameworks.
• Comfortable working with both Linux and Windows based servers.
• Experienced in the Software Development Lifecycle in an agency environment
• Multi-tasker, with effective time management skills
• Solutions-focused; creative / lateral thinker
• Understanding of good design principles and ability to adhere to complex design specifications
• Experience working with Docker
• Experience with Git
• Comfortable contributing and reviewing functional and technical documentation

Useful Supporting Skills

• MTL Framework
• Google Maps API
• CesiumJS 3D mapping platform
• Automated testing
• Front End Development

I’m working with a lovely, collaborative boutique agency based in Hoxton to source a permanent Senior Motion Designer. Working within a team of eight people, you will have a body of work in your folio that showcases your personality and engages the viewer. Within your skill-set will be full proficiency with the Adobe Suite, C4D and Redshift rendering, and operating on both Mac and PC machines. This is an opportunity to express yourself fully in a creative capacity, working within a supportive and friendly team (and therefore culture fit is a must). For more details please get in touch.

The Senior Creative Artworker’s key responsibility is from layouts or key visuals supplied by the agencies Design Department, to create Press, POS, Digital, OOH, DOOH, Brochures & DM materials ready for supply to printers, publications. The agency uses Keynote heavily across all departments so, the candidate would need to be fully conversant within this application. They should be able to assist the agencies Design department when necessary and be able to suggest ideas and improvements along with following styled templates. The candidate should thrive in a fast paced, deadline driven environment across presentations, digital and print media. Need to be highly adaptable to changing situations with a flawless attention to detail. They will need to be brilliantly organised with superb time management and have a keen eye for typography.

Responsibilities:

Support the creative development process by developing layouts, composites and templatesthat are used to communicate a creative concept or specific execution.Prepare presentation materials required for internal or client presentations (file prep, large format output, boarding/mounting, finishing)Perform alterations of presentation and production files as directedCreate accurate and precise Press, OOH, POS, Brochures, DM & master artworks from alayout to supplied specificationsCreate accurate and precise Digital materials for Display or DOOH, including simple animationsand transitionsAdhere to client-supplied or internal style guidelinesEnsure all artwork elements conform to the intended reproduction specifications including colour space, resolution, file type/size and proper separationAdhere to file and server management procedures for all supplied and working files includingnaming conventions, storage location, version control and archive/restore managementUse workflow systems to successfully generate press-ready output files, routing prints andcertifiable retouching and contract/publication proofsEnsure all output is to extremely high standards, working with Design & Creatives where applicable Record accurately and in a timely manner all labour, materials and required commentsin job management/timesheet system

Required Experience & Skills:

At least 10 years agency experience across integrated campaigns (print, digital; PR/social a plus) Must be familiar with and understand the print production/pre-press processesMust be familiar with and understand Digital display & DOOH processesSuperior Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Keynote skills required

Adobe Premiere, After effects and 3d skills an advantageGood knowledge of fonts and typographySuperior written and verbal communication skills with internal teams Ability to re-prioritize and respond to changing demands Demonstrated ability to learn quicklyProven effectiveness when working under pressureAppreciation for the creative processSkilled at working with design and creative teams