Position Title: UX/UI Lead Motion Animator

Duration: Contract

Location: Gaydon

Position Description:

• 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 AfterEffects
• 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

Why work through Contech's?

Contechs are a leading Automotive, Design, Engineering, Technology & Innovation Recruitment Consultancy. Founded in 1997, with an inhouse Contractor Care Team to support all external employee's, acts as an employment agency for permanent and contract recruitment.

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