Junior / Midweight Motion Designer

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.

JOB PURPOSE

This role is part of our Technology business unit based in Croatia. Our offices are home to a diverse and talented team of people across various disciplines. We combine our skills in developing future-ready technical solutions with our expertise in creating beautiful designs to deliver exceptional and engaging digital experiences that build lasting relationships with our clients like Microsoft, Samsung, Panasonic, JBL, Adidas and About you.

As a Junior or Midweight Motion Designer, you support motion art direction through ideas, visuals, and narrative. You help bring concepts to life using motion craft and visual thinking. You care about story, framing, and how visuals communicate over time. You are hands on, curious, and keen to grow your skills.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Support the visual and motion direction of social media projects from concept to delivery
• Help develop creative ideas rooted in narrative, pacing, and visual structure
• Design and animate high quality motion work across campaigns and formats
• Create styleframes and motion elements that support the overall creative vision
• Collaborate closely with designers, creatives, and other disciplines
• Apply feedback to improve work and keep projects moving forward
• Stay curious about new tools, references, and techniques across motion and visual design

WHAT YOU BRING:

• Experience as a motion designer with an interest in art direction and visual storytelling 
• Good visual judgement and confidence contributing ideas to creative discussions
• Solid motion design skills with a good sense of timing, framing, and storytelling
• A social first mind who is aware of designing for social and current social trends
• Experience creating styleframes, visual systems, or narrative driven motion
• Drawing skills or frame by frame animation experience are a plus
• Curiosity around AI tools and interest in learning how they can support creative work
• A portfolio or showreel showing concept, craft, and motion design work

WE OFFER

• Transparent career development and pay;
• A flexible, hybrid working policy (5 days in the office per month).
• A rewarding, supportive and healthy company culture.
• Supplemental and additional health insurance;
• Pension scheme: third pillar pension fund. 
• Referral bonus program.
• Stay happy and healthy with a contribution to your health through the OpenUp platform, and a multisport programme;
• A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021.
• Awesome clients. Whether big, small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with all of them. And we celebrate all of our successes together!
• The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.
• Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.

WHY DEPT®?

We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA.

We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter.

At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION 

At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives.

Not sure you meet all qualifications? Apply, and let us decide! Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs when they think they may not meet every requirement, when in fact they do. We believe in giving everyone a fair chance to shine.

We also encourage you to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us.

Want to know more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion? Check out our efforts here.