Animator

About the Position

Join Ogilvy as an Animator in Baghdad, Iraq, where you'll create impactful animations for clients, combining creativity with technical skills.

About the Role

As an Animator at Ogilvy, you will be responsible for collaborating with clients and production teams to understand needs, design storyboards, and create and edit animations. You will use various software and techniques to produce animations, ensuring that the final product aligns with client needs and is delivered on time and within budget.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with clients and production teams to understand needs, review scripts, design storyboards, and create and edit animations
• Use software and techniques to produce animations
• Listen to feedback and alter animations to better suit client needs
• Ensure the final product aligns with client needs and is delivered on time and within budget
• Present the final animated piece to clients for their approval
• Use creativity and artistic techniques to tell a story or provide information in visual form
• Research industry trends and developments and learn new applications
• Effectively manage multiple project requests
• Understand the strategic thinking behind a brief, debate, and contribute to it
• Sell creative concepts and executions internally
• Build strong relationships with Account Management, Planning & Traffic
• Present ideas clearly, succinctly, and passionately
• Deal effectively with clients on a day-to-day level
• Display meticulously well-designed animation
• Have good knowledge of creative formats (above and below the line)

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or certificate in computer animation, fine arts, graphic design, or related field
• Strong interpersonal, communication, presentation, and computer skills
• Understanding of animation, storytelling, and character development techniques
• Attention to detail, adaptability, and receptiveness to feedback and direction
• Ability to work independently or with a team to develop animations and solve problems

Nice to Have

• More education, experience, or proficiency with specific animation software platforms
• Familiarity with the Ogilvy 360 and Brand Stewardship toolbox
• Understanding and ability to use discipline-specific tools

We Offer

• Opportunity to work with a leading global creative agency
• Be part of a team that values creativity, collaboration, and innovation
• Professional growth and development opportunities

About the Company

Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy more than 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity-innovating at the intersection of intelligence, imagination, and influence, with experts across advertising, sports & entertainment, PR & social, consulting, and health collaborating seamlessly across more than 120 offices spanning 90 countries.

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions, and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.

Memac Ogilvy is one of the leading creative networks in MENA with its flagship office in the UAE and a strong local footprint in the GCC and North Africa. It is part of the formidable worldwide Ogilvy network. It’s the only truly integrated comms network – with beyond Brand & Advertising, a deep PR & Influence, Social Media Performance, and Customer Engagement & Digital capability under 1 P&L and under single leadership. Memac Ogilvy is about Making Brands Matter. We deliver on this by combining expert and new capabilities for modern marketing solutions (we are not a traditional advertising agency anymore) with solid project management expertise for agile and effective delivery as well as through a passionate talent agenda.

The agency is the most awarded Middle Eastern agency in Cannes as well as a big winner at the local award show Lynx. It counts around 600 staff members.