# Motion Design Lead at DEPT® > Hungary · Staff · Design · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Adept%3A8188504 (read 2026-11-08). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [DEPT®](https://alderhq.app/companies/dept) - Location text: Budapest; MTUK - Where it can be done from (inferred): Hungary (evidence: "Location: Budapest; MTUK") - Posted: 2026-09-09 (60 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-07 · last verified: 2026-11-07 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dept/jobs/8188504 ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: not posted ## Description (the employer's text) Budapest \| GMT Time Zone 10:00 AM - 6:30PM DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50\|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021. ### JOB PURPOSE This position sits in our Marketing & Technology service, supporting teams across EMEA. We combine data, technology, creative content, and paid media to crack brands’ business problems and drive revenue through digital marketing solutions like ad campaigns, augmented reality, and chatbots. Our clients include eBay, Open AI, VISA, Meta, and The White Company. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll spend your time on the tools as well as leading a team of designers, and you'll help us expand the team. You’ll be an expert designer with a motion background to help lead our Hungary team. Location: This role is based in Hungary. If you're able to match UK working hours, that would be very welcome, as you'll work closely with initially our London team but also teams across EMEA. As a Motion Design Lead, you'll be both a senior maker and a people leader. You'll own the design on a number of clients as brand guardian and lead designer, producing work yourself while guiding, coaching, and line managing a team of designers at a range of levels. You'll also play an active part in hiring, from shaping roles and interviewing to onboarding new starters. Our designers work on projects that call for art direction, graphic design, 2D motion, and editing. Each has their own specialism, whether illustration, 3D, or motion, so the team brings something different to every project. You'll help bring the best out of each of them while setting the standard through your own craft. As a motion lead, you’ll help define motion principles on projects, inspire fellow motion designers and help set high standards across the business. You'll work closely with design leads to build processes, raise the quality of our output, and evolve how the team works. ### WHAT YOU’LL DO ### Hands-on craft - Create and execute high-quality work across campaigns, from concept and look and feel through to final delivery - Work directly in the tools on art direction, graphic design, motion, and video editing, as the work needs - Expert motion knowledge across motion, animation, editing to help the team and our clients. - Generate creative ideas and campaign look and feels across a variety of formats and platforms, including global campaigns - Maintain brand consistency across all marketing projects for the clients you lead on - Be aware of and respond to current design trends and culture, and stay up to date with industry developments and tools ### Leading the team - Lead, develop, motivate, and inspire a team of designers, and encourage collaboration within it - Line manage designers: run regular one-to-ones, set goals, give clear and constructive feedback, and support career progression - Review work, give craft guidance, and raise the quality of design across all deliverables from the team - Work with the design leads to build processes and structures and to shape how we work - Suggest best ways of working, and hustle for the best opportunities for the team ### Hiring and team building - Take an active role in hiring: help define roles, review portfolios and showreels, interview candidates, and make recommendations - Help onboard new starters and set them up to do their best work - Contribute to building a team with a healthy mix of skills and specialisms ### Collaboration and clients - Build productive working relationships with other disciplines across the agency to deliver projects - Collaborate with other heads of design and creative planners - Present work internally and externally, and act as a design lead on client accounts ### WHAT YOU BRING --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Adept%3A8188504 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.