Midweight Studio Hybrid Designer & Animator
Edelman · Johannesburg
Edelman is a voice synonymous with trust, reimagining a future where the currency of communication is action. Our culture thrives on three promises: boldness is possibility, empathy is progress, and curiosity is momentum.
At Edelman, we understand diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) transform our colleagues, our company, our clients, and our communities. We are in relentless pursuit of an equitable and inspiring workplace that is respectful of all, reflects and represents the world in which we live, and fosters trust, collaboration and belonging.
The Role
We are looking for a Midweight Studio Hybrid Designer & Animator to create high-quality design work and bring it to life through animation for Edelman's clients. Working alongside designers, creative leads, client teams and producers, you will develop visual assets across digital, social, print, internal communications and brand-led outputs, then animate selected assets for motion, video and screen-based use.
As part of a global studio team, you will support projects across multiple markets. Adapting static and animated work for regional audiences while maintaining creative excellence and production quality across layouts, motion systems, file formats and delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and animate high-quality assets for digital, social, print, screen and brand communications.
- Translate briefs into static layouts, style-frames, storyboards and motion-ready design systems.
- Create visual systems, campaign assets, social formats, infographics, icons, illustrations, templates and motion toolkits.
- Animate assets using keyframes, transitions, timing, pacing, type animation and simple compositing.
- Prepare animation timelines, production files, renders and exports that meet Edelman's Studio and delivery standards.
- Work with Creative Leads, Client Leads and Production teams from brief through design, animation, feedback and final delivery.
- Adapt design and motion assets across different markets, languages, aspect ratios and output formats.
- Manage multiple projects, version control, asset packaging, render and quality checks and final exports while meeting tight deadlines.
- This role would report into the Design Lead in South Africa.
Requirements
- 3+ years' experience in graphic design, studio design or motion design within an agency or creative studio environment.
- Strong design skills across layout, typography, composition, visual systems and brand consistency.
- Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, with animation capability in After Effects and familiarity with Premiere Pro or similar production tools.
- Ability to take a static design from concept and layout through to animated output.
- Strong organisational and communication skills, with the ability to follow briefs, production schedules and feedback rounds.
- Understanding of production requirements including storyboards, style-frames, animatics, codecs, frame rates, aspect ratios, safe areas, renders, file packaging and final delivery specs.
- Experience with AI-assisted design or animation tools, plus knowledge of Figma, is an advantage.
What We're Looking For
- Passionate about both design and animation.
- Craft focused, detail-oriented work by performing thorough quality checks before reviews.
- Detail-oriented, organised and confident taking work from static layouts into animated outputs.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced agency and production environment.
- Collaborative, open to feedback and able to work across creative and production teams.
- Confident supporting client-facing work and preparing polished files for review, render and delivery.
Please submit a portfolio and/or showreel showcasing relevant design and animation work alongside your CV as part of your application.
We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.