Creative Automation Motion Designer (12 months FTC) at DEPT® in Toronto; Canada

Job description

• This role is part of our Global Studios team. We create emotive yet conversion-focused ideas, products and campaigns at scale and speed. Our specialty is hyper-personalised, digital communications that change perceptions, shape new behaviours, and shift market share for our clients.
• This role is dedicated exclusively to Creative Automation—using technology to produce creative assets at scale. You will be designing and animating templates in Adobe After Effects that integrate with Lightspeed, our proprietary automation engine, to render the assets at scale.
• You need to be naturally curious, technically-minded, and eager to experiment. We’re looking for candidates who never shy away from a challenge, are excited to find new and novel solutions to creative problems and who, most importantly, enjoy the more technical side of motion design and animation.

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.

Skills

Required

• Adobe After Effects
• Expressions in After Effects
• JavaScript basics

Benefits

• A flexible hybrid working policy to enjoy the best of both worlds.
• Early Finish Fridays, kickstart your weekend early with alternating early-finish Fridays.
• 15 days paid holiday annually, increasing with length of service (plus Public Holidays).
• Birthday Leave, a paid day-off each year.
• Access to dedicated mental health resources including enhanced sick pay scheme, employee assistance programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders.
• Dept Allowance, a dedicated company contribution to spend on either your professional development or personal wellbeing.
• Refreshments are provided in the office all week.
• Enhanced family friendly policies to support parents.
• Learning and Development, continuous growth opportunities through internal training, and "inspirational talks” guest speakers.
• Buddy Program, you will be paired with a ‘Buddy’ to help you navigate your first weeks’ at DEPT®.
• A Certified BCorp Agency and is multi-award winning “Agency of the Year”.
• Awesome clients. Whether big or small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries. And we celebrate all of our successes together!
• Global DEPT® Cares Month, an annual initiative where our teams donate their professional skills and time to support local charities and pr-bono projects.
• We are open to a few different levels for this role. The anticipated annual salary ranges for this position would be dependent on level.
• Midweight = $60,000 – $70,000 CAD.
• Senior = $70,000 – $80,000 CAD.
• Salary is based on relevant experience, expertise, and organizational impact.