Motion Graphics Designer

Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is an English Premier League Club, based in North London.

Led by the late great Bill Nicholson, the Club became the first in England to win the League and FA Cup Double in 1961, and the first in the UK to win a European Trophy two years later. Spurs has since been home to some of the game’s great entertainers, including Jimmy Greaves, Glenn Hoddle, Paul Gascoigne, David Ginola, Gareth Bale, Heung-Min Son and Harry Kane.

In April 2019, the Club opened an iconic new stadium that sits at the heart of a £1billion sport-led regeneration of North Tottenham. The stadium is the largest football club stadium in London and is a multi-use venue with the ability to host a variety of events 365 days a year, including NFL, boxing, rugby, concerts, and other major events, plus visitor attractions including Stadium Tours and the Dare Skywalk.

The stadium development scheme has to date created more than 4,000 new jobs for local people, with circa £300m pumped into the local economy each year.

Tottenham Hotspur has:

• A clear strategy to develop talent from within its Academy, showcased by a strong track record of Academy players graduating to the first-team squad.
• A £100m state-of-the-art Training Centre that supports the Club’s ambition to attract, develop and retain the best talent.
• Commercial partnerships with globally recognised brands including AIA Group Limited (AIA), one of the world’s leading providers of life insurance services, and Nike, the world’s leading sports footwear and apparel company.
• A commitment to minimizing its environmental impact across Club operations, being named as the greenest in the Premier League for the past three years. Tottenham Hotspur is a signatory of the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework, committing to halve carbon emissions by 2030 and become net zero carbon by 2040.
• An award-winning Foundation that is renowned for creating opportunities to help enhance the lives of people in its local community through education, employment, health, and social inclusion programmes.

The Club is seeking a Motion Graphics Designer to form a key part of the internal video production team also known as Spurs TV, by providing high quality static and motion graphics across the Club’s digital, social and broadcast platforms.

JOB PURPOSE

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club's official online, broadcast channel and stadium output produce a mixture of bespoke and visually striking animations for all matchday and non-matchday events. Engaging content from news, match action, behind-the-scenes features and documentaries, in-depth analysis, branded content, and live broadcasts.

Our content is seen across all Club digital and social platforms, broadcast globally, shown within the stadium on a match day and for non matchday events, as well as syndicated to partners and external media.

The Club is looking for a Motion Graphics Designer to work across our increased content offering across all Stadium and Spurs TV Channels. The successful candidate will be responsible for the creation of high-quality static and motions graphics to implement into all Spurs productions and platforms.

The successful candidate will be required to work across multiple productions, so a flexible individual is sought.  In addition, it is desirable that candidates hold a full driving license and own transport to attend shoots as and when required.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ideate and create innovative static and motion graphics for content productions and the platforms themselves.
• Work as part of a team to deliver long-form features, documentaries and live broadcasts under the guidance of the Senior Producers and Studio Producers.
• Support in the development of the wider edit team’s knowledge of graphics.
• Ensure and maintain a high visual quality across all graphics on all platforms.
• Develop creative design outputs for use across the Clubs Extended Reality stage.
• Support all other departments across the Club including but not limited to marketing, PR, communications and retail where possible.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Delivers to high standards, high attention to detail, takes responsibility and works efficiently.
• A desire to learn and develop skills within live graphics systems
• Well-organised and forward thinking
• Thinks of creative solutions to problems
• Values & respects others, builds relationships, collaborates.
• Creative, energetic and driven individual who thrives working under own initiative and pressure.
• A passion for football.
• Passionate for content creation - not afraid to try new things.
• Take verbal and written briefs and transform them into creative, immersive and exciting animations.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experienced working within video production as a Motion Graphics Designer. In particular with brands in the Sports/Entertainment sector.
• A good working knowledge of production technology. Live graphics playout is an advantage.

• Expert knowledge of motion graphics techniques across the Adobe CC suite, Cinema 4D and Apple Products. Other applications and hardware are an advantage.
• Familiar with Extended Reality Technology, including LED volumes used for video production.

• Flexible with working hours and happy to work evenings including home and away matchdays.
• Advanced knowledge of using Trapcode Suite 15.

Safeguarding is fundamental to the success in all that we do. Successful candidates are to be reminded they would be subject to various background, DBS and reference checks for this role.

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club welcomes applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, race, or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.