Junior Motion Designer (temporary contract until Dec 2025)

Join our Movement and Champion Restaurant Culture! 💚

At TheFork we believe that the best things in life happen around the table.
As the leading restaurant booking platform in Europe, we connect the broadest community of loyal diners with the world’s favorite restaurants. Powered by innovation and a deep passion for the restaurant industry, we create unique dining experiences across 11 countries.

We’re part of the Tripadvisor Group and proud to be building a diverse, people-first culture where “respect”, “ownership”, “growth” and “better together” values thrive.
If you’re passionate about food, technology, and making a real impact, your seat at the table is ready.

👉 Discover life at TheFork

What you will do

As our Junior Motion Designer, you will be instrumental in elevating TheFork's brand presence through captivating motion design and video editing skills. Your core responsibilities will include to produce a wide range of digital campaigns, with a strong emphasis on performance marketing channels such as UAC, Meta, YouTube, and TikTok:

• Creative Visionary: Developing eye-catching and engaging creatives for all sorts of digital platforms. Translating marketing concepts and briefs into compelling motion graphics and proactively proposing new layouts, design templates, and innovative visual approaches.
• Brand Champion: Ensuring a cohesive and consistent brand experience across all visual assets, while providing frameworks and flexibility for local market adaptations. Effectively following brand guidelines and playbooks while proactively contributing fresh perspectives and innovative ideas to elevate our brand storytelling across diverse markets.
• Motion Maestro: Refreshing existing visual content and creating new, dynamic videos and engaging template effects to keep our brand communication vibrant and impactful.
• Collaborative Growth Mindset: Actively collaborating with team members, fostering a supportive and knowledge-sharing environment that encourages mutual growth, skill development, and the opportunity to make a significant impact.
• Staying Ahead of the Curve: Keeping abreast of the latest motion design trends, techniques, and technologies to ensure our creatives are cutting-edge and effective.

Who you are:

You Must Meet These Critical Qualifications

• You bring up to 2-3 years of hands-on experience in shaping brands visually, ideally within a marketing or digital environment, supported by a compelling portfolio showcasing your most relevant motion design projects.
• You possess a high level of expertise in Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. Familiarity with Figma, Illustrator, and Photoshop is highly valued. Experience with other design and motion graphics software is a plus.
• You have a strong and demonstrable understanding of Brand Design principles applied to marketing and digital campaigns, with proven experience in creating impactful visuals for standard mobile and paid social video formats.
• A 200% digital mindset with an innate understanding of online platforms and a proactive approach to exploring and implementing new design possibilities. You are not afraid to try new things when it comes to design.
• You possess an exceptional eye for detail, understanding the nuances of visual storytelling and the importance of every frame.
• Experience working for a tech company or in a similarly fast-paced environment is highly desirable, demonstrating your ability to thrive under pressure and meet deadlines.
• You are highly organized with an operational mindset, capable of effectively managing multiple projects simultaneously and prioritizing tasks efficiently.
• You are a strong communicator, able to articulate your creative vision clearly, confidently pitch ideas, and effectively collaborate with stakeholders across different levels and teams.
• You embody an empathetic, inclusive, and curious attitude, embracing change and fostering a positive and forward-thinking spirit within the team. You are not bound by "that's how we've always done it."
• Language Proficiency: You possess a high level of English (business language) as a must.

You Can Impress With These Additions

• Strong familiarity with Figma, Illustrator, and Photoshop is highly valued. Experience with other design and motion graphics software is a plus.
• Fluency in French, Spanish, or Italian is a significant plus.
• Experience working for a tech company or in a similarly fast-paced environment.
• Experience in Generative AI and/or prompting.

What we offer you:

😄 An awesome team

🏠 A temporary contract

⚖️ Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week + up to 4 total weeks additional flexibility during the summer period and in December to work fully remotely)

💸 Competitive fixed salary

🍕 Lunch vouchers available for each working day (because yes, we like to try our best restaurants)

🌎 International teams and a multicultural environment spanning 10 offices across Europe

🤝Highly inclusive working environment

🤸‍♀️ Lifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse expenses related to physical and leisure activities, family support, travel etc

🎓 Continuous learning and development programs

😌 Free access to the Calm app to help you build resilience wherever you are in your mental health journey

⏳ A program dedicated to helping you have the best work/life balance

👩‍🦽 Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee

🍴 Amazing offices with dining, a coffee point on each floor, and leisure area

🎤 Team building events

We believe that we are better together, and we welcome you for who you are. We endeavor to ensure that everyone - regardless of ability, age, socio-economic & cultural background, ethnicity, faith, gender, gender expression, gender identity, ideology, national origin, race, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law -has the opportunity to reach their full potential. At TheFork, we want you to bring us your unique perspectives and experiences, so we can collectively continue disrupting the restaurant industry and go from good to great.

TheFork is committed to a fair recruitment process. If you have special needs and require reasonable support during your application, interview, or participation in the selection process due to health conditions or disability, please direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly.

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