Senior Designer (Video & Animation) - 12 Month FTC Sabbatical Cover

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 a