UI/UX Motion Designer - After Effects

Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

UI/UX Motion Designer - After Effects - £54/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire / Hybrid potential - 8 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

The motion interaction designer is responsible for bringing life to the UX/UI vision through creative use of motion, interaction, choreography and transitions that create cohesion and delight within the digital experience. The motion designer will be primarily involved in defining how motion brings life to the UI but will also lend their skills as a means of communicating concepts and demonstrating the vision to key stakeholders.

Key accountabilities
- Create and implement motion design systems, animations, transitions and micro interactions into the design of HMI and UI UX content across various digital platforms
- Collaborate closely with UI and UX designers to translate static design content into dynamic intuitive experiences
- Work closely with technical teams and SW developers to ensure dynamic content is optimised and feasible.
- Maintain visual consistency across multiple interactions within digital experiences
- Liaise and co-ordinate with creative operations, programme management and business operations teams to ensure content delivery timing can be supported.
- Stakeholder management across interdependent design functions

Essential skills:
- Experience creating animations/motion graphics in After Effects
- Storyboarding/sketching
- Defining motion/animation styles and behaviours for handover documentation

Critical capabilities:
- Excellent interaction design experience gained in agency and corporate settings
- Demonstrable experience of delivering motion and interaction design solutions across multiple digital applications, screen sizes and devices.
- Understanding of animation design principles & timing, easing etc.
- Deep knowledge of interaction design.
- Strong proficiency in After Effects, principle, framer, etc.
- 3d skills in cinema4d, blender etc., preferable.
- Familiarity with front-end technologies such as html, css, java etc.
- Experience of prototype builds and iterative improvement
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to present complex information to all levels within the business
- Comfortable working across different cultures, geography and time zones.
- Able to adapt to a fast-paced design environment.

Experience & Qualifications Required:
- Min 3 years motion graphics experience
- Creating motion graphics to be integrated into a wider UI
- Ability to work with a blend of 2D and 3D assets
- Ability to work in studio and remote as required

Desirable Experience & Qualifications:
- Experience in creative character design and animation
- Interest in China-market design preferences
- Interest in automotive UX/HMI design
Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.