Freelance Motion Designer

About the role

We're looking for an experienced freelance Motion Designer to join our medical communications team on an ad hoc basis. You'll be bringing healthcare and scientific content to life for our pharmaceutical clients: thought leader videos, infographic-style animation, data visualisation and explainers.

It suits someone with a real feel for timing, weight and craft, a sharp eye for detail, and who's happy juggling several projects in a busy, collaborative team where work regularly changes hands.

What you'll be working on

Most of what you'll animate is for healthcare professionals and pharma clients. Typical projects include:

• Thought leader and expert interview videos, with lower thirds, animated supers, supporting graphics and data overlays
• Infographic-style animation that makes clinical data, statistics and study results clear and accurate
• Mechanism of action and disease explainers
• Content for congresses, symposia and educational meetings
• Animated elements for e-learning, presentations and digital resources

What you'll do

• Design and animate in After Effects, from storyboard and styleframes through to final delivery
• Turn complex scientific and clinical information into clear, well-paced motion
• Work within client brand guidelines and medical accuracy requirements
• Turn around amends from creative leads, medical writers, account teams and clients
• Keep several projects moving at once, each on schedule
• Build clean, organised project files that anyone on the team can open and work in
• Hand over and pick up work in progress smoothly

What we'll look for in your reel

For us, craft beats volume and flashy effects every time. We'll be looking for:

• Timing. Movement that's well paced and lands with the voiceover or speaker, with holds that give people time to read the data.
• Weight. Considered easing, anticipation and follow-through, so elements feel like they have mass rather than sliding about on default keyframes.
• Craft and finish. Clean transitions, consistent spacing and polished typography, with nothing popping or jittering.
• Attention to detail. The kind of care that catches misaligned type, off-brand colour or a data error before it ever reaches review.

How we work

Projects move between designers as priorities change, so flexibility really matters here. You'll be someone who can:

• Handle several projects at different stages without letting quality slip
• Work well in a team, share what you know and take feedback constructively
• Hand work over cleanly, with well-named, well-structured files and clear notes on status and open amends
• Pick up someone else's project quickly, get to grips with its structure and match its style without rebuilding from scratch
• Stay calm and adaptable when briefs, deadlines or priorities shift

What you'll bring

• Proven professional experience as a motion designer, ideally in medical communications, healthcare or scientific content
• Advanced After Effects skills: keyframe and graph editor animation, shape layers, masking, tracking, precomp structure and basic expressions
• Strong working knowledge of Illustrator and Photoshop for preparing and building assets
• A solid grounding in animation principles, especially timing, spacing, easing and weight
• A good eye for typography, layout, colour and composition
• Experience animating data, charts and infographics clearly and accurately, to client brand guidelines
• Organised file management and a habit of documenting your work
• Confident communication and a genuinely collaborative approach