Junior Art Director Digital

About the Role

LIGANOVA HORIZON is a digital experience agency for international brands and part of the LIGANOVA Group. The team creates digital experiences, campaigns, and visual systems at the intersection of creative quality, technological innovation, and strategic thinking for demanding international clients and projects.

In this position, you will help shape international digital brand worlds that are visually strong, relevant in a technological sense, and built specifically for digital environments. You will work within an interdisciplinary group spanning design, motion, 3D, creative technology, and strategy, contributing to work that goes well beyond isolated assets.

AI, motion, and emerging creative technologies are treated as core parts of modern digital creation here, from ideation and design to animation workflows and scalable content production.

Responsibilities

• Develop visual concepts, designs, and motion assets for international digital campaigns, experiences, and platforms.
• Translate creative frameworks and visual systems into finished design and motion work.
• Contribute to motion, 3D, and visual design tasks within cross-functional project teams.
• Support the integration of AI and generative AI tools into creative workflows.
• Create animations, visuals, and moving-image content for a range of digital touchpoints.
• Work closely with senior art directors, creative directors, creative technologists, and developers.
• Help evolve visual styles, motion languages, and digital design systems.
• Maintain a high standard of design quality and consistent execution across deliverables.
• Stay engaged with trends in digital design, motion, 3D, visual culture, and AI.

Requirements

• A completed degree or equivalent training in design, motion design, visual communication, or digital media.
• Initial professional experience or relevant internships/projects, ideally in a digital or agency setting.
• Strong visual sensitivity and a clear feel for composition, motion, and digital aesthetics.
• Basic motion design knowledge and preferably some early exposure to 3D.
• Strong interest in digital trends, new technologies, and AI/generative AI applications.
• Understanding that AI and motion are increasingly essential in contemporary digital creation.
• Curiosity, willingness to learn, and motivation to grow creatively and professionally.
• Structured working habits, reliability, and a collaborative mindset.
• Very good German skills and good English skills.

Perks

• Work in an award-winning design office in central Frankfurt, designed for exchange, inspiration, and growth.
• Hybrid working model supported by modern mobile work equipment.
• Access to extras such as a large kitchen for shared cooking sessions, a sun deck, a ping-pong table, good coffee, drinks, and JobRad.
• Attractive partner discounts.
• An open culture that encourages individuality and values diversity as creative potential.
• International collaboration with colleagues in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Berlin, and Amsterdam.

Additional Information

You will be part of a diverse and welcoming environment where individuality is encouraged and the shared goal is to help each person become the best version of themselves. The role connects you to an international network with genuine exchange and no rigid team structures.

The workplace is located in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany.