Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

As a Senior Motion Designer in the Brand team at Sky Creative, you’ll help drive the look and feel of the Sky Brand across our broadcast channels, advertising, 360 campaigns, installations and digital communications! You will see projects from conception through to delivery, designing and creating high-end work as part of an award-winning team.

What you’ll do:

• Modelling, texturing and animating high-end brand assets.
• Research and Development plus Style frame creation.
• Close collaboration with the design teams, production and VFX teams.
• Creation of workflows for design toolkit rollouts.
• Designing of brand elements for toolkit rollouts.
• Quality Control of Brand assets and their use across the business.
• Compositing and animation of brand elements to broadcast standards including UHD, HDR formats plus a good understanding of General Colour Space.
• Hands-on CGI for individual projects as a generalist, across all aspects of production. Including, but not limited to modelling, animation, simulation, texturing, lighting and rendering using C4D & Redshift. (Knowledge of Houdini a plus).

What you’ll bring:

• Expertise in general compositing principles with the ability to composite in After Effects & Nuke.
• Able to work within a VFX pipeline and adhere to workflows of a post-production environment.
• Demonstrative experience and knowledge of advanced 3D modelling and texturing for VFX.
• Be detail oriented, proactive, with great communication to lead teams internally.
• Advanced rendering and lighting skills in C4D but specifically in Redshift. Good Knowledge of X-Particles, technical skills for R&D (Xpresso & Python a plus) and advanced knowledge of Cinema 4D, After Effects, Premier.
• German or Italian fluency a plus.

Team Overview

As part of Sky’s Consumer Group, Sky Creative Agency provides Advertising, Brand Design and Broadcast Creative for multiple partners across the business. We have recently integrated Sky Works, Sky’s in-house Trading agency to create a fully integrated 360 through-the-line operation.

Our work is varied, from Broadcast Design teams embedded in Sky News to specialist digital performance marketing teams, brand Advertising and Master brand ownership. We are leading the way in an industry wide trend for in-housing and day in day out we are relentless in raising the standards of our work.

Our ambition is to drive excellence in Sky’s advertising and to help build Europe’s leading entertainment brand. We are committed to diversity, inclusivity, and as Europe’s largest in-house agency, believe we can be role models for our industry.

The rewards:

There’s a reason people can’t stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:
– Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
– A generous pension package
– Private healthcare
– Discounted mobile and broadband

Where you’ll work:

Osterley

Our Osterley campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Chiswick Park, Gunnersbury, Acton Town and Ealing Broadway tube stations. There’s also plenty of parking, bike shelters and showers.

On campus you’ll find six subsidised restaurants and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:

Recognised as an ‘Inclusive Top 50 Employer’ and a ‘Times Top 50 Employer for Women’, we’re working hard to ensure we’re a truly inclusive place to work. This means we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working.

And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Just so you know: we’ll be reviewing applications in Jan 2022. If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.