Careers

Key responsibilities

• Generating interesting creative work with strong conceptual and strategic foundations
• Focused on maintaining an exceptional level of craft and attention to detail
• Taking responsibility to hit deadlines and being aware of timings.
• Supporting the Creative Director to ensure that work gets delivered on time to a high standard
• Effectively distilling and communicating direction to the team after client feedback or after internal design review
• Creating high quality presentations of creative work for internal and external use
• Collaborating with client teams, motion and development to build a positive working relationship

Skills and experience

• Broad experience - You’ll have at least 2 years of industry experience, with proven skills and competencies. Must have a passion for branding, design and digital
• Excellent varied portfolio - Work should demonstrate concept-driven design, superior execution, show experimentation, versatility, strategic thinking and energy. Significant brand identity and digital projects within the industry. You should have worked across both print and digital executions
• People skills - Comfortable working as a team and confident to take part in workshops and interactions with clients
• Excellent presenter - Excellent communication and presentation skills. Able to put an attractive and compelling presentation together and present it
• Broad tool-kit - High level of skill in Adobe CC (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, XD) and Figma
• Bonus tool-kit - Experience in 3D, animation, coding and interaction design is a bonus. An understanding of peripheral design processes (i.e. art direction and film/stills production, print production) would also be a bonus.

Your personality

• A good work ethic
• Passionate about branding, design, motion and digital
• Flexible and adaptable to challenges
• Multi-disciplined
• Curious and are eager to learn
• Collaborative and a team player
• Good communication and organisational skills

What we offer

• £27,000 - £32,000 per annum. Based on experience
• Yearly bonus scheme
• Improved workplace pension
• Monthly well-being allowance
• 23 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Your Birthday off and a £100 present
• Hybrid working: The team work remotely on Mondays and Fridays. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be based in our Manchester studio
• Learning and development programs individual to you
• Free refreshments, breakfast and fruit are provided in the office
• Regular team building socials and meals out

Key Responsibilities

• Produce outstanding creative work to constantly challenge the level of BGN’s output.
• Work confidently alone as well as in a team, being able to meet deadlines.
• Have flexibility and willingness to work from the conceptual phase to delivery across multiple projects, crafting moving assets, films and other forms of animation.
• Working collaboratively with other motion designers, brand designers and developers.
• Support the motion design team to ensure that work is well executed and delivered on time.
• Take part in occasional client calls throughout a project.

Skills and experience

• Experience - A minimum of 2 years experience with a primary focus on motion.
• Great showreel - A strong portfolio and showreel of animation work. Either commercial or self-initiated projects.
• Design understanding - Have a good understanding of design principles and work confidently with typography, photography, illustration and any kind of imagery necessary to produce animation.
• Conceptual thinker - Be able to implement traditional animation principles into branding and to come up with new unique overarching concepts to guide motion graphics.
• Broad tool-kit - High level of skill in After Effects and a good understanding of Adobe CC.
• Bonus toolkit - Experience in 3D, editing and frame-by-frame animation. Coding, colour grading, audio production, AR and VR are a bonus.

Your personality

• A good work ethic
• Passionate about branding, design, motion and digital
• Flexible and adaptable to challenges
• Multi-disciplined
• Curious and eager to learn
• Collaborative and a team player
• Good communication and organisational skills

What we offer

• Up to £30,000 per annum. Based on experience
• Yearly bonus scheme
• Improved workplace pension
• Monthly well-being allowance
• 23 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Your Birthday off and a £100 present
• Hybrid working: The team work remotely on Mondays and Fridays. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be based in our Manchester studio
• Learning and development programs individual to you
• Free refreshments, breakfast and fruit are provided in the office
• Regular team building socials and meals out

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Client Services team and assist on client projects.
• Proofread artwork and mark up amendments for the internal team
• Assist with writing briefs for the creative team.
• Conduct category and competitor research to keep up-to-date with our clients' industries.
• Review daily insights, websites, and industry press, sharing articles and interesting campaigns with the team.
• Take notes in meetings and organise follow-ups with relevant team members.

About You:

• Currently pursuing a degree in Marketing, Communications, Business Studies or a related field.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage various tasks.
• Enthusiastic, proactive, and have a can-do attitude.
• High attention to detail and ability to follow directions.
• Proficient in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Eager to learn about our internal processes and take on new challenges.

What We Offer:

• Paid internship, in line with the national living wage.
• A laptop for the duration of your internship.

Perks:

• Gain experience working in a creative branding agency.
• Opportunity to work with an experienced and supportive team.
• Free refreshments, breakfast, and fruit provided in the studio all week.
• Dog-friendly studio.

Please send your application to rachael@bgn.agency.