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Monks is hiring a Senior level animator Monk to create motion graphics and move pixels across space with grace. The job is a mix of original work and creating equally awesome adaptations from existing styles and assets.
About the role
- As part of our internal brand team, you’ll animate assets for social media and various interfaces and create/optimize templates for production that help our global animation team
- The job is focused around 2D animation, motion graphics and animated type, with small pockets of video editing.
- Animations are a mix of original motion graphics work and creating equally awesome motion content based on existing assets provided to you.
- You’ll animate campaign and social content for a top-name (and top- secret) brand.
- Working as part of a dedicated client team, you take part in a fully integrated production operation, with Monks from all disciplines collaborating in crafting awesome work. This means you can team up with top-notch artists, creative directors, producers and illustrators to create world wide content.
Requirements
- You have at least 5+ years of experience as an animator or motion graphics artist as well as experience with editing videos. Bonus if you do 3D animation. Online portfolio and/or work samples are required for consideration.
- You are able to translate briefs and copy into flawless pieces of work.
- You’re experienced working in Adobe Premiere and After Effects.
- You can deliver tight work, even under tight deadlines.
- When it comes to animation, you know how to do the basics right, or break ’em for artistic effect.
- Next to the language of motion, you can make yourself clear in English too, because the job’s not just about technical artistry.
- You can work independently and excel as part of a team, skillfully sharing your progress, problems and pitfalls with the team alongside your favorite GIFs.
- To excel in this role, you have to be a team player, skilled in communicating problems and progress, and practiced in working together with juniors and seniors alike.
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About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.