Senior Art Director (Design)

Grounded in a talent-centric mindset, Maker Lab is a marketing agency designed to build decentralised technology-led agency teams, rooted in collaboration with clients from the ground up. Maker Lab’s cross-functional teams of multidisciplinary specialists are embedded into client teams across digital marketing competencies — from measurement & analytics to content production.

Art Director (Motion and Video)

As Art Director, you’ll come up with ideas that make business content entertaining, and bring them to life through motion and video. You’ll create concepts for video series, creator collaborations and campaigns, art direct shoots and motion design, and set the visual style for the team’s animated and video content. Because the brand’s voice is witty and pun-led, you’ll need strong idea and headline instincts as well as motion craft. You’ll work closely with the Senior Video Editor, Senior Designer and Project Manager.

Role:

• Develop video and motion-led concepts for social-first content and campaigns, from always-on series to festive and event moments.
• Create ideas, visual treatments and motion styles for recurring video series: host-led shows, interview and “ambush” formats, and tips series.
• Write punchy hooks, titles and on-screen copy, turning product messages into witty visual and motion ideas.
• Art direct short-form video shoots with creators and talent, and design motion graphics, animated titles, transitions and graphic packages.
• Create storyboards, animatics, style frames and mood boards to align stakeholders before production.
• Guide the Senior Designer and production partners, and work with the Senior Video Editor on the edit, to deliver high-quality, on-brand work.
• Keep content relevant by spotting video, motion and social trends, formats and cultural moments across markets.
• Present ideas and work to the Project Manager and client teams, and handle feedback.
• Ensure brand consistency across motion and video while pushing creative boundaries for a B2B audience.

You:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of art direction, motion design or video-led creative experience in a creative, social or digital agency.
• Strong reel and portfolio showing social-first motion and short-form video work, ideally for B2B or technology brands.
• Experience art directing video shoots, creator content or motion productions.
• Strong craft in After Effects and Premiere Pro, plus Adobe Creative Suite and Figma; Cinema 4D, Blender or other 3D tools a plus.
• Able to turn business messages into simple, entertaining, platform-native video and motion ideas.
• Confident presenting work and collaborating with editors, designers, project managers and clients.
• Experience with B2B, technology, or marketing-industry brands is a plus.
• Exceptional verbal and written English communication and presentation skills.

Please note: due to the high volume of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted with a follow-up introduction email. If you do not receive an email from Maker Lab, your application has been unsuccessful this time around. Look out for future roles! By submitting your application, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your data by the Maker Lab team for the purposes of your application. Where your application contains personal data of third parties, you confirm that you have obtained all necessary consents to provide the Maker Lab team with such personal data and that we may collect, use and/or disclose such data in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012.