Lead Motion Graphics Artist (Localisation & Adaptation)

Accountabilities: Creative Leadership: Lead motion graphics and animation projects from concept development to final delivery, translating creative briefs into engaging visual storytelling. Creative Direction and Mentorship: Establish high creative standards, provide constructive feedback, and mentor motion designers, including mid-level and senior artists, as well as freelance talent. Motion Design and Animation: Create sophisticated 2D and 3D motion graphics, animations, compositing, and visual effects for a range of client campaigns. Content Development: Produce animated assets, title sequences, explainer videos, product visualizations, and campaign adaptations for broadcast, digital, social media, online video (OLV), digital out-of-home (DOOH), cinema, and emerging media. Localization and Adaptation: Oversee the adaptation and localization of creative assets across markets, languages, formats, and territories while maintaining brand consistency and creative integrity. Advanced Post-Production: Apply expert-level skills in Adobe After Effects, rotoscoping, paint and cleanup, camera and object tracking, match-moving, compositing, and keying. Production Planning and Delivery: Collaborate with producers and creative teams to manage project schedules, workloads, resources, and delivery milestones within agreed timelines and budgets. Technical Quality Control: Supervise asset preparation, versioning, and final exports, ensuring technical accuracy, correct formats, and compliance with platform and broadcast specifications. Stakeholder Collaboration: Serve as the senior point of contact for motion graphics workstreams, coordinating with internal teams, clients, and external production partners. Freelance and Resource Management: Support resource planning and coordinate freelance motion artists when required to meet project demands. Workflow Optimization: Identify opportunities to improve production processes, tools, and delivery workflows, reducing rework and increasing efficiency. Performance and Quality Improvement: Monitor creative output, project delivery, and stakeholder feedback to maintain consistent quality and support scalable motion graphics capabilities. Requirements Professional Experience: At least 10 years of experience in motion graphics, animation, or post-production, including leadership responsibilities. Adobe Creative Suite: Advanced expertise in Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and Illustrator, with expert-level proficiency in After Effects. Advanced Post-Production Skills: Strong hands-on experience with rotoscoping, paint and cleanup, camera tracking, object tracking, match-moving, compositing, keying, and visual effects workflows. Localization and Adaptation: Extensive experience managing creative adaptations and localization projects across multiple markets, languages, and delivery requirements. Multi-Platform Content: Strong understanding of technical and creative specifications for broadcast, digital, social media, OLV, DOOH, and cinema. Specialist Tools: Experience with Mocha Pro, Silhouette, Nuke, Cinema 4D, Blender, or equivalent motion design and post-production tools. Technical Delivery Knowledge: Strong understanding of video codecs, file formats, color management, rendering, and end-to-end delivery workflows. Troubleshooting: Ability to identify and resolve complex technical post-production challenges efficiently while maintaining quality standards. Team Leadership: Proven experience leading creative teams, mentoring experienced artists, providing feedback, and coordinating freelance resources. Creative Judgment: Excellent visual storytelling, creative problem-solving, attention to detail, and the ability to maintain consistency with brand guidelines. Project Management: Ability to manage multiple projects, balance competing priorities, and deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines. Communication and Collaboration: Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across creative, production, client services, and external partner teams. Continuous Improvement: A proactive approach to refining workflows, improving production efficiency, and adopting new tools and techniques. Benefits Remote Work: Work remotely from India until further notice. Competitive Compensation: A competitive compensation and benefits package; specific salary details were not provided. Professional Development: Access to certification programs, mentorship, and talent development initiatives. Career Growth: Opportunities for internal mobility and continued professional development. Global Creative Exposure: Collaborate on projects for major international clients across industries, markets, and platforms. Collaborative Culture: Work with a multicultural, globally connected team that values creativity, open communication, and diverse perspectives. Team Engagement: Participate in team-building activities and company social events. Inclusive Workplace: Join an environment committed to equal opportunity, diversity, inclusion, and supporting employees in reaching their potential. Sustainability Initiatives: Contribute to business practices focused on environmental sustainability, IT education, community empowerment, fair operating practices, and gender equality.