Senior Designer with Motion
Publicis Groupe · London
Company descriptionLeSHOP is a creative agency specialising in commerce.
Our mission is to make brands unmissable wherever and whenever a purchase decision is being made, driving growth in both their brand equity and their commercial performance.
We bring brand thinking to commerce challenges and commerce thinking to brand challenges, breaking silos to deliver stronger results for our client partners.
Overview
About the role
LeSHOP have partnered with one of the UK’s leading energy providers to build an embedded creative studio team dedicated exclusively to their account. Working in close tandem with the client’s in-house studio, you will take day-to-day direction directly from the client while enjoying all the perks and backing of being a Publicis employee.
This hybrid role is based in London, splitting your time between LeSHOP offices at TVC (2 days/week), the client's office (1 day/week), and remote working (2 days/week).
As a Senior Designer, you will play a pivotal role bridging high-craft design, expert motion graphics, and emerging generative technologies. We are looking for someone with standout motion design capabilities—which will form over half of your day-to-day work—and a natural talent for utilizing AI tools to elevate creative ideation and execution.
Responsibilities
What you will do
Motion Design & Ownership (40-50%+ of the role): Bring the client’s brand to life across digital channels by creating dynamic assets, campaign elements, and animated illustrations. Champion motion principles across the team and continuously refine our studio motion standards.
Gen-AI Innovation: Explore and integrate generative AI design and motion tools into daily workflows to streamline ideation, rapidly prototype concepts, and expand visual possibilities.
Multi-Channel Design: Deliver high-crafted visual assets across email, digital media, printed collateral, event graphics, and OOH experience materials.
Strategic Collaboration: Partner closely with client brief owners, project managers, and the wider studio team to deliver creative solutions that are strategically aligned, on brief, and on time.
Qualifications
About you
Our ideal candidate possesses exceptional communication skills, attention to detail, and artistic flare as well as a strategic attitude and the ability to think creatively about briefs. You have extensive design experience and a demonstrated skill in motion. You should have some or all of the following:
An outstanding portfolio of published work spanning different channels, from print to digital, including advertising, branding, motion, web, etc.
Expert motion skills using After Affects and other Adobe tools.
A keen interest in emerging technologies, particularly AI, and its potential applications in design and motion graphics.
An interest in or foundational knowledge of 3D animation principles and software is a plus.
Email and performance marketing channel expertise.
Experience working within a creative agency or an in-house studio is a plus.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaboratively as part of a team, fostering strong working relationships.
Possess the ability to think creatively, present ideas, and articulate the thinking behind them.
Excellent attention to detail.
Confidence in multi-tasking and delivering projects on time and on brief.
Independent problem-solving skills.
An open-mind and a passion for learning - receptive to feedback.
Ambition and a drive for high standards.
A positive attitude, excellent communication and listening skills, and the initiative to compromise when necessary.
Additional information
LeSHOP offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Full details are shared when you join, but highlights include core benefits such as Pension, Life Assurance, and Private Medical cover, alongside enhanced policies like Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave. You’ll also have access to a range of additional initiatives, including:
📖 Please check out the Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).
Publicis Groupe works primarily from the office or our clients' office four days per week.
At LeSHOP, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.
We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs - for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition - please let us know. We’ll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.
Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included.
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What you will do
Motion Design & Ownership (40-50%+ of the role): Bring the client’s brand to life across digital channels by creating dynamic assets, campaign elements, and animated illustrations. Champion motion principles across the team and continuously refine our studio motion standards.
Gen-AI Innovation: Explore and integrate generative AI design and motion tools into daily workflows to streamline ideation, rapidly prototype concepts, and expand visual possibilities.
Multi-Channel Design: Deliver high-crafted visual assets across email, digital media, printed collateral, event graphics, and OOH experience materials.
Strategic Collaboration: Partner closely with client brief owners, project managers, and the wider studio team to deliver creative solutions that are strategically aligned, on brief, and on time.
About you
Our ideal candidate possesses exceptional communication skills, attention to detail, and artistic flare as well as a strategic attitude and the ability to think creatively about briefs. You have extensive design experience and a demonstrated skill in motion. You should have some or all of the following:
An outstanding portfolio of published work spanning different channels, from print to digital, including advertising, branding, motion, web, etc.
Expert motion skills using After Affects and other Adobe tools.
A keen interest in emerging technologies, particularly AI, and its potential applications in design and motion graphics.
An interest in or foundational knowledge of 3D animation principles and software is a plus.
Email and performance marketing channel expertise.
Experience working within a creative agency or an in-house studio is a plus.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaboratively as part of a team, fostering strong working relationships.
Possess the ability to think creatively, present ideas, and articulate the thinking behind them.
Excellent attention to detail.
Confidence in multi-tasking and delivering projects on time and on brief.
Independent problem-solving skills.
An open-mind and a passion for learning - receptive to feedback.
Ambition and a drive for high standards.
A positive attitude, excellent communication and listening skills, and the initiative to compromise when necessary.