About The Role
Role Overview
The Senior Designer (Video & Animation) role will work in Journey’s 59 Studio and will be part of 59’s multidisciplinary Design Department to research, develop, refine and design responses to a broad slate of creative challenges across 59 and Journey’s global project portfolio.
59’s Design team is made up of video designers, animators, spatial designers, architects, lighting and technical designers. You will apply your video design/animation skills collaboratively, across a number of projects, to help realise our work.
This role will suit someone with a minimum of 5 years’ experience designing for live performance, exhibition and/or installations or someone who has been working in another industry or context for some time and is looking to transfer their skills to 59 and Journey’s diverse, ever-expanding portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:
Working with Project Directors and Designer Directors to analyse and interpret a client brief
Attending client-facing design meetings alongside a Project Director and Design Director in order to assimilate and understand a creative brief
Engaging in internal design discussions, reviews and critical feedback
Supporting the delivery of internal and client-facing design presentations
Demonstrating an understanding and an overview of the project as a whole
Personally undertaking design work at a number of different developmental stages, which would include:
Conceptual design
Storyboarding
Visualisation and communication to external parties
Building reusable design templates and workflows in various software packages related to your specialism and design approach
Maintaining project files and design assets
Archiving projects
Working with a Director to lead and execute the creative process on a project, having an awareness for the details on all aspects of the project
Leading and coordinating the design process on multiple, varying scale projects with substantial budgets, taking them to completion
Managing freelance teams and assisting with overseeing the delivery of projects on-site
Undertaking line management of Design Department team members as required
Working as the lead designer for smaller scale projects, with the support of members of the Design team
Managing your own time confidently and meeting deadlines
Contributing to the ongoing work to generate a wider network of freelance/external company relationships
Understanding the interdisciplinary nature of the 59 & Journey teams, contributing to understanding one another's workflows and processes in day-to-day work
Investigating new ways of engaging audiences through the application of technology to narrative challenges
Identifying opportunities for departmental development in both creative and technical areas, including the adoption of new hardware, and software-driven processes
Undertaking other project and non-project creative and design work as reasonably required by the company
Contributing to 59's work around Sustainability, Belonging & Inclusion and Universal Design
Candidate Specifications
Required
Minimum 5 years’ experience, education or training in video design and/or animation
Demonstrable experience designing projects from pre-concept through to delivery on site
Demonstrable interest in a story-driven design approach
Excellent command of Adobe tools for motion graphics and video, especially After Effects, Photoshop and Premiere Pro
A thorough understanding of digital media formats, including video codecs, 2D graphics and 3D model file formats
An ability to multitask effectively and handle multiple workflows at any one time
Evidence of a lateral thinking design ability to take a concept / brief and develop it into a specific form
Ability to co-conceive design ideas / concepts in visual form with 59’s Design Directors, and communicate them to a wide range of stakeholders, clients, internal team, collaborating creative team, technical…