Lead Motion Graphics Artist (Localisation & Adaptation)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Motion Graphics Artist (Localisation & Adaptation) based in India. The Lead Motion Graphics Artist will oversee the creation and delivery of high-quality motion graphics, animations, and localized creative content for global brands across multiple platforms. This role combines creative direction, advanced motion design expertise, and production leadership to ensure every deliverable meets brand standards and technical specifications. You will transform creative briefs into compelling visual stories while managing adaptations for different markets, languages, and channels. Working closely with producers, creative teams, client services, and external partners, you will drive projects from concept through final delivery. You will also mentor artists, improve production workflows, and maintain exceptional quality across multiple concurrent projects. This is an opportunity to shape impactful global campaigns in a collaborative, technology-driven, and creatively ambitious environment.

Creative Leadership: Lead motion graphics and animation projects from concept development to final delivery, translating creative briefs into engaging visual storytelling. Creative Direction and Mentorship: Establish high creative standards, provide constructive feedback, and mentor motion designers, including mid-level and senior artists, as well as freelance talent. Motion Design and Animation: Create sophisticated 2D and 3D motion graphics, animations, compositing, and visual effects for a range of client campaigns. Content Development: Produce animated assets, title sequences, explainer videos, product visualizations, and campaign adaptations for broadcast, digital, social media, online video (OLV), digital out-of-home (DOOH), cinema, and emerging media. Localization and Adaptation: Oversee the adaptation and localization of creative assets across markets, languages, formats, and territories while maintaining brand consistency and creative integrity. Advanced Post-Production: Apply expert-level skills in Adobe After Effects, rotoscoping, paint and cleanup, camera and object tracking, match-moving, compositing, and keying. Production Planning and Delivery: Collaborate with producers and creative teams to manage project schedules, workloads, resources, and delivery milestones within agreed timelines and budgets. Technical Quality Control: Supervise asset preparation, versioning, and final exports, ensuring technical accuracy, correct formats, and compliance with platform and broadcast specifications. Stakeholder Collaboration: Serve as the senior point of contact for motion graphics workstreams, coordinating with internal teams, clients, and external production partners. Freelance and Resource Management: Support resource planning and coordinate freelance motion artists when required to meet project demands. Workflow Optimization: Identify opportunities to improve production processes, tools, and delivery workflows, reducing rework and increasing efficiency. Performance and Quality Improvement: Monitor creative output, project delivery, and stakeholder feedback to maintain consistent quality and support scalable motion graphics capabilities. Requirements Professional Experience: At least 10 years of experience in motion graphics, animation, or post-production, including leadership responsibilities. Adobe Creative Suite: Advanced expertise in Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and Illustrator, with expert-level proficiency in After Effects. Advanced Post-Production Skills: Strong hands-on experience with rotoscoping, paint and cleanup, camera tracking, object tracking, match-moving, compositing, keying, and visual effects workflows. Localization and Adaptation: Extensive experience managing creative adaptations and localization projects across multiple markets, languages, and delivery requirements. Multi-Platform Content: Strong understanding of technical and creative specifications for broadcast, digital, social media, OLV, DOOH, and cinema. Specialist Tools: Experience with Mocha Pro, Silhouette, Nuke, Cinema 4D, Blender, or equivalent motion design and post-production tools. Technical Delivery Knowledge: Strong understanding of video codecs, file formats, color management, rendering, and end-to-end delivery workflows. Troubleshooting: Ability to identify and resolve complex technical post-production challenges efficiently while maintaining quality standards. Team Leadership: Proven experience leading creative teams, mentoring experienced artists, providing feedback, and coordinating freelance resources. Creative Judgment: Excellent visual storytelling, creative problem-solving, attention to detail, and the ability to maintain consistency with brand guidelines. Project Management: Ability to manage multiple projects, balance competing priorities, and deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines. Communication and Collaboration: Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across creative, production, client services, and external partner teams. Continuous Improvement: A proactive approach to refining workflows, improving production efficiency, and adopting new tools and techniques. Benefits Remote Work: Work remotely from India until further notice. Competitive Compensation: A competitive compensation and benefits package; specific salary details were not provided. Professional Development: Access to certification programs, mentorship, and talent development initiatives. Career Growth: Opportunities for internal mobility and continued professional development. Global Creative Exposure: Collaborate on projects for major international clients across industries, markets, and platforms. Collaborative Culture: Work with a multicultural, globally connected team that values creativity, open communication, and diverse perspectives. Team Engagement: Participate in team-building activities and company social events. Inclusive Workplace: Join an environment committed to equal opportunity, diversity, inclusion, and supporting employees in reaching their potential. Sustainability Initiatives: Contribute to business practices focused on environmental sustainability, IT education, community empowerment, fair operating practices, and gender equality.