Lead Designer

Framestore is looking for a Lead Designer to join our busy facility working across a diverse range and high-end creative content. You will be working with a team of designers, taking projects from conception to delivery.

The Lead Designer will work closely with the Creative Directors, Design Directors, Art Directors Producers and Artists providing an overall leadership role across the Design/animation. You will have a strong passion for motion design and animation.

Day to day the Lead Designer will be confident in pitching for projects, helping to visualise the ideas of the CD / DD / AD by contributing to and generating concepts, style frames and tests. They will take a lead role over the animation team per project to manage those artists and deliver consistency in the design and animation. They will work from pitch right through to delivery phase, on the box, delivering high quality results.

They will collaborate with and support the CD / AD in their vision and they will ensure that vision is respectfully carried across the show. They will help in the research and development of ideas and styles with the CD / AD, being a sounding board and bringing fresh ideas to the table.

The lead designer should have extensive experience as a Senior Designer and have a wide variety of visual styles, a brilliant eye for design, strong knowledge and research base for varying styles, an ability to adapt creative based on client ask and a strong understanding of the creative process.