Junior Motion Designer

About Footballco

Footballco is the world’s leading football media company, built for the next generation of fans.

Our portfolio includes some of the game’s biggest and most iconic football platforms; including GOAL.com, MUNDIAL and Indivisa. Fuelling these platforms is a global editorial team spanning 17 different counties and an award-winning branded content team, who work with some of the world’s biggest brands to create fully integrated campaigns that connect to modern football’s ever-evolving audience.

Our mission is to give fans more of the game by building football communities that entertain, inform, and inspire action. We cover what you need to know and what you didn’t know is coming next. Our content spans football news & analysis, original reporting, social media, web stores, video, podcasts, newsletters, and live scores. By doing nothing but football, we offer fans everything in football.

With 300 permanent employees across the world, Footballco is a diverse, disruptive, brave, dynamic, agile and fun organisation. With the football fan always front of mind, leveraging a world class tech platform and our track record of being first to market.

And we are looking for talent that makes us better.

About the Role

We are looking for a Junior Motion Designer in Leeds to join our ever expanding global internal agency and support our creative output for some top global brands. As a junior motion designer you’ll utilise your knowledge of After Effects to bring passion, creativity and a keen eye for detail across multiple points of delivery and clients! Your eager-to-learn attitude will broaden the scope of work, enabling you to train on the job and develop your skills with us. Your enthusiasm for design and knowledge of up to date trends will help to bring content to life which is also showcased in your showreel and portfolio.

With some relevant experience under your belt, you have working knowledge of agency processes, tackling creative briefs, and implementing creative feedback. You will be confident in presenting your ideas, communicating with the team and expressing your creative flair.

An in-depth understanding of football is preferred, however not essential. Football transcends all aspects of popular culture and so should your thinking.

What You Have

• Good use of After Effects and experience working in Photoshop & Illustrator.
• A good understanding of composition, narrative and pacing.
• Ability to conceptualise, storyboard and create video across digital and social channels.
• Ability to produce graphical assets and styleframes in Photoshop.
• Experience working in an agency-like setting.
• Great organisation and communication skills with the team.
• Confident presenting and explaining ideas.
• Proactive, ambitious, detail-oriented attitude.
• Collaborative and enthusiastic vibes for your craft.
• A keen eye for text animation and upcoming type trends.
• Design knowledge and outlook to bring a motion piece to life.
• An understanding of Cinema4D would be a great bonus!

Footballco is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.