Senior Motion Designer, Onetrace
3+ days a week in office (Canary Wharf, London)
Software for subcontractors to capture, document, and streamline construction projects in one place
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Software for subcontractors to capture, document, and streamline construction projects in one place
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
3+ days a week in office (Canary Wharf, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build the simplest, most reliable tech that contractors have ever used.
Role
Who you are
- You have worked in a high-growth or scaling SaaS environment
- Proven experience using Figma, After Effects and Premier Pro
- Experience and knowledge of 3D tools such as Cinema 4D or Blender for product mockups and abstract tech visuals
- Ability to animate product interfaces, dashboards, and software workflows cleanly and accurately
- Experience pulling static vector assets and UI components directly from product design files
- Knowledge of aspect ratios, compression, and file-size constraints for web, email, and paid media
- Capability to map out frame-by-frame visual concepts
- Ability to make complex or technical topics visually engaging and easy to understand
- Openness to iterating and tweaking animations based on performance metrics, A/B test results, and click-through rates
- Comfort working in fast-paced sprint cycles with marketing campaign deadlines
- Confident and comfortable working cross-functionally
- Resilient to adjust creative work based on brand guidelines and stakeholder feedback
Desirable
- Basic frontend coding skills in HTML or CSS
- Skilled in AI tool integrations to accelerate concept exploration and mood-boarding phases
- Experience working with external agencies
What the job involves
- Own motion and video production end-to-end, from concept through to delivery, creating a continuous stream of high-quality content across campaigns, product launches, social, events and brand initiatives
- Build and evolve Onetrace's motion language, defining the principles, pacing and style that make our brand instantly recognisable in motion
- Proactively identify opportunities where motion can increase engagement, improve product understanding or strengthen our brand, rather than waiting for briefs
- Create engaging animations, motion graphics and promotional videos for social media, digital campaigns, email, product marketing and exhibitions
- Turn complex product features and workflows into clear, compelling motion content that informs and engages
- Lead video editing, colour grading, sound design and final asset delivery, ensuring every piece meets a high creative standard
- Partner closely with marketing, commercial teams and external agencies to deliver impactful creative that supports business goals
- Take ownership of project quality, timelines and delivery standards, helping establish scalable motion design processes as the function grows
- Explore and adopt new creative tools, including AI-powered workflows, to improve efficiency, experimentation and the quality of our motion output
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Compliance and transparency within the construction & building industry have always been of great importance. The fast-paced and ever-changing environment of this workplace means that a multitude of trades must coordinate and work together towards a shared goal. This requires software that simplifies and accelerates workflows, creating synergy between the many moving parts of a construction team.
Onetrace is a digital tool that helps subcontractors gather data for the capturing, documentation, and streamlining of their operations. It stores everything in one place for teams, their clients, and auditors. Though there are many digital tools for subcontractors to choose from, many were originally built to solve the specific challenges faced by their creators and were repurposed for widespread use. This can lead to overcomplicated construction products that are unreliable. With its focus on subcontractors, Onetrace's digital tools aim for agility and reliability in the face of unpredictable and ever-changing environments.
Onetrace's team has years of experience in the construction industry. As a result, they've witnessed first-hand the need for more effective project management, making the company an ideal digital partner for subcontractors.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company benefits
- 🏥 Private medical insurance (Bupa)
- 🍼 Enhanced parental leave
- ✈️ Remote work abroad (2 Weeks Annually)
- 🌴 Annual team offsite
- 🏖️ 25 days PTO
- 🚆 Season ticket loan scheme
- 💰 NEST pension
- 🧑💻 Apple MacBook with all the necessary software
- 🏢 WeWork membership
- 🏡 Hybrid working
- 💬 Employee assistance programme
Company values
- Care enough to make it better: we challenge ideas, improve what’s in front of us and take pride in raising the bar
- Focus on what matters: we prioritise impact, cut through noise and stay disciplined in how we spend our time
- Take ownership: we take responsibility for outcomes, follow things through and act with integrity and accountability
- Succeed as One: we work as one team - sharing context, supporting each other and putting collective success first
Company HQ
Canary Wharf, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Lewis Bird
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-Founded Onetrace in 2019. They have also been a Managing Director of NextDev & Sota Ventures since 2012.
Greg McClelland
(Co-Founder )Previously a Managing Director of Optimum Contractors and Optimum Cleaning Group. They were also an Engineering Specialist at RPM Jig & Tool.
People progressing
Tanay joined in 2022 as an Onboarding & Training Executive. Now Implementation Manager, he ensures every Mid-Market and Enterprise customer has a smooth transition from sale to onboarding!
Benjy joined Onetrace as a founding AE. He quickly proved himself as a top performer and, over time, grew into a Senior AE, consistently driving results and setting the standard for excellence.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Onetrace
Dina Lagou (Head of People & Operations )
- We build with diversity. We lead with respect.
- At Onetrace, our team includes over 15 nationalities. We’re proud to be a multicultural, collaborative team - bringing together different voices, perspectives, and experiences to shape the future of construction technology.
- Inclusivity isn’t just part of our culture, it’s baked into our product design and customer experience. From the features we build to the way we work together, we believe great technology starts with understanding and respecting the people it’s built for.
- We believe diversity isn’t a ‘nice-to-have’ - it’s essential to building great products. The more inclusive we are as a team, the better we reflect and serve the diverse trades, people and cultures using Onetrace every day.
- Internally, we’re committed to creating a space where everyone feels they belong - where our values of respect above all and doing the right thing aren’t just words, but behaviours we live and reinforce together. Externally, that same mindset shows up in how we partner with customers - through our product, our communication and our commitment to raising the standard across the industry. Because to build technology that works for everyone, it needs to be shaped by everyone.
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