BBC Creative is the BBC’s in-house agency. Our ambition is simple: to be the best in the world at what we do, for the world's best broadcaster.
 
We connect the dots between all the amazing things the BBC does and the ever-changing external landscape—finding the most powerful and compelling ways for the BBC to show up. We want to get people talking about the BBC and leave a positive mark on popular culture.

Main Responsibilities

 We’re searching for a Senior Motion Designer to join our talented multidisciplinary team. 

We’re looking for someone with relevant experience in a motion design role (permanent or freelance). You’ll be a hands-on designer, passionate about bringing ideas to life through motion, with leadership potential.
 
This role will suit someone with a strong knowledge of motion graphics and animation principles, a great design eye, and excellent communication skills. 

You’ll be leading projects and primarily working on promos, broadcast design, title sequences, and advertising campaigns.
 
This is an exciting opportunity to develop your creativity in a collaborative environment, with the support of the wider team. 

A key part of the role is overseeing projects from start to finish—bringing them to life and seeing them published on TV.
 
This is your chance to create work that gets people talking about the BBC, nurture talent within the team, and develop your creative direction skills across a broad range of briefs.

You will:

• Create best-in-class motion design for broadcast, campaigns, and animation projects.
• Contribute to creative ideation, strategy, and direction.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, creative teams, and freelancers.
• Scope projects, develop timelines, and align on creative ambitions.
• Work with project management teams to delegate motion projects to internal and freelance designers.
• Present ideas clearly and communicate feedback between teams and stakeholders.
• Act as a line manager to motion designers, helping them develop the necessary skills, tools, and processes to succeed in their roles

Are you the right Candidate?

• Leadership potential, with the ability to drive complex projects and mentor junior designers—ensuring both your own work and the work you oversee is of the highest standard.
• A compelling portfolio/showreel that demonstrates the breadth of your motion design skills and craft.
• Highly proficient user in Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator) Any experience with 3D software would be a welcome bonus.
• A conceptual thinker—you don’t just make things move but have a clear ‘why’ behind your motion principles and executions.
• Strong communication and presentation skills that enable you to confidently liaise with stakeholders, justify creative decisions, and sell ideas effectively.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills, with the ability to lead others and ensure assets are delivered to the highest standard.

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. (London Weighting may be applicable)

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

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Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.