About this Role
Research & Advisory Creative is an in-house creative team of 50+ associates responsible for creating compelling materials to support Gartner s research and advisory needs. We are looking for an experienced, organized creative professional with excellent aesthetic capabilities and project/resource management skills. Candidates must have a sharp creative eye, love visual storytelling, and be able to balance design with client communication and creative consultation
What You ll Do
- Guide internal associates through all facets of the motion graphics production and video editing process including the development of creative concepts, storyboarding, designing, editing, and post production.
- Work closely with the creative director, design team, and writers to create compelling and engaging videos and motion graphics that reflect a brand-centric approach.
- Partner with internal clients, understand their business goals, and develop the appropriate multimedia solutions to help them meet their communications needs.
- Digitize and encode video from and to a variety of devices and codecs
- Set standards for motion graphics and videos and ability to direct external vendors to meet brand standards
- Collaborate with other creative staff to exchange ideas, files, clips, segments, video formats, specifications, etc.
What You ll Need
- Bachelor s degree in animation, video production, graphic arts or related degree.
- 4-6 years of interactive or motion design experience, preferably with an in-house creative services team, ad agency, or production house.
- A strong understanding of professional video production, including pre-production, production, and post-production environments, workflows, equipment and technologies.
- Excellent storytelling, pacing, timing and concept development skills
- Effective communication, negotiation, and influencing skills required to build consensus with business partners
- Ability to create custom artwork for animation as necessary
- Working knowledge and technical proficiency in Adobe After Effects and Apple Motion.
- Proficiency with Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro, compositing, media encoding, transcoding and video processing
- Comprehensive knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and illustrator
- Skill with recording and cleaning audio
- 3D software experience such as Cinema 4D, Blender a plus
- Ability to shoot video with DSLR or Pro XD cameras (including working knowledge of lighting and staging)
Who You Are
- Understanding of standard proofreading marks (Good to have)
- Strong communicator (verbal and written)
- Exceptional attention to detail, capable of delivering error free content