Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging. 

The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions. 

Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.

We are looking for a passionate and creative filmmaker to lead animation and storyboard projects in creating AI-generated motion animations for advertising. The ideal candidate will combine artistic direction skills and filming experience to coordinate the development of innovative and effective advertising pieces, from initial concept to final delivery. This role will oversee the workflow of animation and storyboard creation using AI, ensuring quality objectives and deadlines are met.

Responsibilities: Manage and coordinate animation projects, from storyboard conceptualization to delivery. Collaborate with creative teams, including scriptwriters, animators, and AI specialists, to develop ad concepts that resonate with client needs. Supervise the creation and optimization of storyboards using AI tools and animation techniques. Ensure that projects maintain high visual and narrative quality, aligned with advertising objectives. Develop work schedules and manage resources to ensure timely delivery within budget. Review and provide feedback on the animation team’s work, ensuring consistency with brand and client standards. Maintain fluid communication with clients to ensure project expectations and objectives are aligned at every stage. Research and propose new AI-based tools and technologies for animation and storyboard creation and optimization. Requirements: Over 3 years of experience in direction, audiovisual project management, or advertising animation. Proven experience in creative project management with the ability to coordinate interdisciplinary teams. Familiarity with digital animation tools (After Effects, Toon Boom, Blender, etc.) and AI software for animation and design. Experience with AI tools for visual creation and content generation, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, or similar. Experience in creating storyboards for advertisements. Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to coordinate teams and manage client expectations. Creativity and artistic vision to conceptualize effective advertising narratives. Ability to problem-solve and make decisions under pressure in fast-paced environments.

Diversity & Inclusion

Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves.  We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging. 

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.

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