About DEPT®
DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world's most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We're 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.
Job Purpose
This role is part of our Global Studios team. We create emotive yet conversion-focused ideas, products and campaigns at scale and speed. Our specialty is hyper-personalised, digital communications that change perceptions, shape new behaviours, and shift market share for our clients. This role is dedicated exclusively to Creative Automation—using technology to produce creative assets at scale. You will be designing and animating templates in Adobe After Effects that integrate with Lightspeed, our proprietary automation engine, to render the assets at scale. You need to be naturally curious, technically-minded, and eager to experiment. We're looking for candidates who never shy away from a challenge, are excited to find new and novel solutions to creative problems and who, most importantly, enjoy the more technical side of motion design and animation.
Responsibilities
•Build reusable creative automation templates in Adobe After Effects.
•Help solve creative challenges with novel and clever technical solutions.
•Become an expert in Lightspeed—our proprietary Adobe After Effects extension for building and designing creative automation templates.
•Take pride in your work and have excellent project file 'housekeeping' skills — name your layers!
•Be an ambassador of the entire creative automation team.
Requirements
•A portfolio demonstrating creative projects with a clear technical aspect.
•A deep understanding of Adobe After Effects.
•Comfortable writing and using expressions in After Effects.
•Knowledge of the basic principles of JavaScript.
•A keen interest in and knowledge of third party scripts, plugins and extensions for Adobe software.
•Proactive and self-motivated with strong initiative.
•Eager to learn and develop new and existing skills.
•Meticulous attention to detail.
•Independent and confident, but works well with others.
•Process-driven and a great communicator.
Conditions & Benefits
•A flexible, hybrid working policy (2 days from the office, depending on location).
•An excellent salary based on experience and equal pay policies.
•Pension, free private healthcare, mental health support, and company sick pay scheme.
•26 days paid holiday (plus UK Bank Holidays).
•Help getting you to work with a season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme.
•Enhanced family friendly policies to support new parents.
•Social and Cultural Events, with opportunities to connect with colleagues through organised activities and celebrations.
•Inspirational Talks, bringing the outside in with regular guest speakers and events.
•Learning and Development, supporting your growth with continuous opportunities to learn and advance.
•Buddy Programme: paired with a 'Buddy' to help you through your first weeks at DEPT®.
•A reputation for doing good — DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021 and named 'Agency of the Year' at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards.
•Opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries.
•Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.
We are open to a few different levels for this role.
