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We have decades of experience building highly effective campaigns backed by incredible AAA game trailers, and now we’re expanding to do it all in London.\nHiring the best talent is a part of that. Our cross functional teams are built to be nimble, highly effective, and empowered to bring their expertise and creativity to every project, big and small.\nYou are an ambassador of the company and its values at all times. Among other things, this means exhibiting excellent leadership and collaboration, crystal clear communication, and a positive, motivational demeanor. You also must be self-motivated, and able to work independently or as part of a team.\nTHIS ROLE:\nYour role will consist of creating and executing top-tier design across multiple disciplines. Armed with an expertise in both 2d & 3d design from concept to completion, you will be asked to balance aesthetics and technical requirements across a variety of campaigns with different needs.\nYou will be a prolific maker and thinker, expected to contribute to pitches, trailer projects, vis ID development, key art and everything in between.\nThis is a hybrid work-from-home/onsite position, with the default being work-from-home, but with onsite work on an as-needed basis at our studio in London.\nBIG PICTURE RESPONSIBILITIES:\nLeadership - As a senior member of the team you are tasked with helping to improve Hammer on all fronts from doing best-in-class creative work to having improved processes and functioning as a better company. 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Take an active interest in exploring and developing new pipelines and workflows at Hammer to execute the best work possible. \nDesign Expertise - You will be a key tastemaker at Hammer Creative, ensuring that every frame, pitch deck, and style guide leaves our doors looking perfect. \nIN DETAIL\nCreate conceptual designs and styleframes and ensure the project is set up to be executed within our pipeline. \nBuild standout presentation decks with branding, typography, logos, and layout expertise - Use your creativity to make every deck visually engaging and strategically powerful\nDemonstrate senior skills of the Adobe suite, 3d software (Blender, C4D, Maya), Figma (for presentation design), and other design and animation tools as needed\nTake a keen interest in Unreal Engine and expand your knowledge and capabilities in it to better collaborate with the capture and special projects team\nWork on a variety of different briefs that use some or all of your skills in design, visual story-telling, illustration, 2d/3d motion design, and compositing\nElevate any title card, end logo, and branding graphic you’re assigned to create or animate\nOptimize workflows and provide recommendations on new workflows or technologies that can help improve efficiency\nOrganize and brief teammates, external partners, etc. on concepts and tasks\nMentor, supervise and develop junior talent as the department continues to grow\nHelp direct junior employees, animators, and partners in creating high quality, stylish executions of brand creative in its many forms \nWork with the Operations Supervisor and Senior Art Director in developing a contractor database and scheduling periodic reviews to assess existing and emerging talent \nWork with artists, producers, and any other assigned team members to review, improve, and approve outgoing presentations\nWhen asked participate in client presentations, pitches, and feedback calls to help communicate and support ideas\nParticipate in creative concepting, generating asset ideas and working together with art directors and other creatives to develop their ideas in unique, visually driven ways\nContribute to case studies, Hammer website, and other marketing materials promoting our work \nDevelop Hammer’s Art Department capabilities, leading its growth and staffing to ensure it’s functioning in the best possible way for both the work we do and the types of work we wish to pursue\nProvide feedback and guidance for the visual development of assigned, high value work including CG, animation, live action, and beyond \nHelp members of the department grow in skill and further their careers. 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