Senior 3D Animator (In-House Creative Agency)

Job Description

London

3 days in the office, 2 days remote

Please submit your portfolio as part of your application

Why this job matters

As Senior 3D Animator, you’ll lead the motion design and animation output for your assigned brand. Reporting into the Principal Creative, you’ll bring ideas to life through engaging motion work and ensure high‑quality animated content is delivered consistently across all channels and platforms.

What you’ll be doing

Animation Leadership & Direction

• Lead the animation execution of campaigns and brand work, translating creative concepts into compelling motion design
• Champion animation craft and the power of motion storytelling within the agency

Team & Partner Management

• Build and maintain relationships with external animation partners, studios, and freelancers
• Select appropriate animation partners based on project requirements, style, and budget

Animation Production & Execution

• Oversee animation production across all formats - explainer videos, motion graphics, social content, broadcast, digital ads, etc.
• Ensure animation work meets brand guidelines while exploring creative possibilities
• Troubleshoot animation challenges and find creative solutions within constraints

Creative & Technical Direction

• Develop storyboards and animatics that visualize how concepts will work in motion
• Provide art direction on animation style, movement, timing, and aesthetics
• Make decisions on animation techniques - 2D, 3D, motion graphics, frame-by-frame, etc.

Brand Stewardship

• Drive the consistency, quality, and evolution of our brand’s motion design by safeguarding animation standards, developing scalable motion systems, and ensuring all movement expresses our brand’s personality.

Collaboration & Workflow

• Collaborate with creative, design, copy, social, project, production and account teams to deliver animations that align with brand vision and meet channel, narrative and delivery needs.

Production Management & Supplier Relations

• Manage external animation partners end to end — sourcing talent, negotiating budgets, ensuring quality delivery, and overseeing all financial and administrative processes.

Innovation & Inspiration

• Stay current on animation trends, techniques, and emerging technologies
• Experiment with new animation tools, software, or approaches
• Explore emerging technologies like AI animation tools, real-time rendering, etc.

The skills and experience you'll have under your belt

Essential Experience

• Strong experience in animation, motion design, or motion graphic
• Experience leading or mentoring animation teams, or taking the lead on animation production.
• A strong portfolio that showcases excellent animation craft across different styles, formats, and channels.
• Confidence working with external partners such as animation studios, freelancers, or production teams.
• Experience contributing to integrated campaigns that use animation across digital, social, retail, or broadcast.
• Exposure to major consumer brands — experience in telecoms or tech is a bonus, not a requirement.
• Ability to manage animation budgets, schedules, and production workflows effectively.

Highly Desirable

• Skills across both 2D and 3D animation.
• Experience shaping motion design systems or brand animation guidelines.
• Understanding of animation best practice for social and digital first platforms.
• Curiosity for emerging tools and technologies (e.g., AI assisted animation, real time engines).
• Experience combining animated content with live action footage.

Professional Development

• A commitment to ongoing development — whether through courses, workshops, self learning, or participation in the animation community.
• Engagement with new trends, tools, and industry thinking.

Benefits

• Annual on target bonus 10% (based on both personal and company performance)
• BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays with the option to buy up to one week's work of your contracted hours. This will also increase with service.
• 2 weeks carer’s leave
• From January 2025, all parents welcoming a new child will be eligible for our new Family Leave policy. You will receive 18 weeks at full pay, eight weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It is for all parents, no matter how your family is made.
• Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
• Life Assurance (4 x life cover pay)
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans.
• My Discounts gives colleagues access to unbeatable savings on everyday purchases at hundreds of retailers.
• Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership.
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
• Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community.
• Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV.’
• 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues

About us

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.

While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.

Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.