Shikho is looking for a powerhouse Senior Animator to join our brand team. This role is for a creator who brings 2D and 3D magic, a motion graphics brain, and a collaborative energy to every project. You will bridge the gap between day to day motion briefs and high end visual execution, taking complete ownership of the visual journey for our social media platforms, app, digital products, and websites to make learning hyper engaging for students.
• Multidimensional Animation: Animate anything from complex scientific concepts and characters to abstract stories that simplify the learning experience for Shikho users.• Mixed Media Mastery: Seamlessly mix 3D elements with real world footage, including CGI, tracking, and compositing for brand films and app content.• Asset Creation: Create original 2D and 3D designs, backgrounds, and dynamic typography using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Character Animator, and/or other relevant tools.• Omnichannel Design: Integrate technical and visual solutions into design concepts specifically for social media platforms, the Shikho app, digital products, and websites.• Workflow Ownership: Take full responsibility for the animation pipeline, building efficient workflows and ensuring all output meets the high production standards of the Shikho brand.• Strategic Research: Constantly find new ways to speed up production through new plugins, software, and shortcuts to keep up with the fast paced EdTech environment.• Cross Functional Collaboration: Partner with academic experts, copywriters, visualizers, and the brand team to ensure every lesson or marketing asset is both accurate and visually stunning.
• Professional Background: Minimum of 3 years of experience in a top digital marketing agency or a high growth in-house brand.
• Industry Preference: Previous experience within the EdTech sector is highly preferred as you will be visualizing academic content.
• Digital Expertise: Deep experience creating motion content and visual assets for social media, mobile apps, and digital platforms.
• The Toolkit: Expert level proficiency in relevant tools.
• Motion Expertise: A portfolio showcasing clean, smooth, and modern motion graphics that align with an established digital product.
• Resilient Mindset: A composed and solution oriented professional demeanor when navigating frequent project iterations or strict campaign timelines.
• Project Ownership: Ability to take full ownership of a project from the first brief to the final export with minimal supervision.
• Communication: Strong communication skills to explain visual choices and technical solutions to stakeholders across multiple teams.
• Drive: Proven ability to work with a high degree of ownership and meet tight targets under pressure while maintaining the Shikho quality standard.
The Important Bits:
- Job type: Full Time
- Department: Brand Marketing & Production
- Location: Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Salary: Competitive and Negotiable Based on Experience
- Working Days: 5 days a week, from Sunday to Thursday
- Other Benefits: Festival Bonus, Group Life & Medical Insurance, Annual Leave, Leave Encashment, Annual Performance Review, etc.
About Shikho:
Shikho is a Bangladeshi education technology start-up with a mission to democratise access to high-quality education. It has so far raised $8 million USD of international funding from global venture capitalists in Singapore and America, the highest for a Bangladeshi seed-stage startup and the highest in education technology for the country. Investors include education technology investment specialists Learn Capital from Silicon Valley, regional experts Wavemaker Partners from Singapore along with the Family Office of Singtel Chairman and local partner SAJIDA Foundation. Shikho aims to build a holistic learning ecosystem for a digitally enabled Bangladeshi student population, across primary, secondary, and tertiary education.
Shikho in the News:
9th Brac Bank-The Daily Star ICT Awards
Bangladeshi edtech Shikho closes seed investment of USD 5.3 million
Shikho raises new investment from SAJIDA Foundation, international investors to expand reach and impact
Shikho: Transforming lives, one student at a time
Shikho making its mark on Forbes list
Shikho and its Founder, Shahir Chowdhury featured in Bloomberg New Economy 2023 Catalysts
Shikho is the leading and category-defining Bangladeshi education technology (edtech) startup focused on building a hyper-localized digital learning ecosystem centered on modernizing the delivery of supplementary education for school, college, university as well as professionals. Combining expertise across content, instruction, media and technology the company’s products and solutions aim to make online learning accessible, enjoyable, engaging, and effective for a learning age population of 85 million Bengali speaking students below the age of 25.
The technology platform addresses each part of the Bangladeshi student journey — covering daily lessons, homework, exam-prep, tutoring, and skill development — in an affordable, convenient, and cohesive way. Shikho’s web and mobile applications include access to interactive live classes conducted by expert tutors, original animated video lessons that help visualize complex concepts, a vast library of in-app questions and solutions, personalized real-time performance tracking, and a recommendation engine that prompts users based on their strengths and weaknesses.
The company currently operates out of four offices in Dhaka and Jessore and has 450 employees. It is backed by global venture capital firms, Learn Capital, Wavemaker Partners, Anchorless Bangladesh, Sturgeon Capital, Goodwater, Sajida Foundation, alongside strategic angels and family offices. The company has raised $7m USD of funding and was featured in Forbes Asia 100 to Watch List in 2022 and its Founder, Shahir Chowdhury was listed as a 2023 Bloomberg Catalyst.
