Filmmaker & Motion Designer

About the role

Winston Films is looking for a Filmmaker & Motion Designer to join its Munich-area team in a hands-on position that blends production, editing, design, animation, and direct client interaction. The work mix includes remote work, office time, and travel across Europe.

This opportunity is designed for someone who is comfortable wearing multiple hats: shooting, editing, designing, animating, learning quickly, and helping turn complex subjects into clear, human stories. The team works on projects for science, research, deep tech, space, education, innovation, and demanding corporate environments across Europe.

Rather than a narrow specialist, the company wants a person with strong fundamentals, a thoughtful visual eye, calm client-facing skills, and the ambition to help shape a growing creative agency from the inside.

Company context

Winston Films is a small senior film team focused on making films for organisations whose work can be difficult to explain. Their projects often involve multilingual settings, technical topics, and high-stakes environments. Across every project, the team keeps the human element at the centre: helping people feel understood, comfortable, and represented authentically from the first conversation through to final delivery.

As the company expands, it is looking for someone who wants to contribute to both the team’s creative output and its evolving structure, rather than simply slotting into a fixed role.

What the job involves

The role calls for a versatile filmmaker with strong motion and graphic design instincts who is eager to work in a small, fast-moving team. You should feel at home behind the camera, be confident in post-production, and be excited to add a stronger design layer to the company’s work.

In practice, your work could range from filming a satellite test in the Netherlands, creating motion graphics for a corporate film in Zurich, supporting a European Union campaign, cutting an interview-led documentary, producing animated explainers for technical products, or helping improve internal workflows and systems.

You will collaborate closely with the team, learn the company’s approach, and gradually take on more ownership as your confidence and capability grow.

What the company is looking for

The ideal candidate does not need to have every skill fully mastered on day one, but should bring strong technical fundamentals, good creative judgment, and the drive to keep growing.

Required experience and abilities include camera operation, lighting, editing, motion design, visual detail, workflow experimentation, AI-assisted creative tools, and the ability to understand a brief and translate it into a strong final output. A calm, reassuring presence on shoots and in edits is also important, especially when working with scientists, executives, engineers, students, or public officials.

Full professional fluency in German and English is essential, including the ability to hold detailed, nuanced conversations with clients and interviewees in both languages. The role also involves travel throughout Europe, sometimes at short notice.

Bonus experience

Additional value will be given to candidates with interview or directing experience, photography skills, understanding of Figma, Webflow, or web design, and experience in branded content, documentaries, explainers, or work for science, research, education, technology, industry, or public institutions.

Working style fit

This role may suit you if you enjoy learning about complex topics, figuring things out independently, working in a small and supportive team, taking real ownership, and building something as it grows. A practical, resourceful attitude is important regardless of budget, along with an appreciation for craft and a belief that people come first.

This position is not intended for someone who only wants to specialise in one area, needs constant supervision, prefers rigid agency structures, is focused on high-volume social content, or wants a predictable corporate path with little ambiguity. It is also not suitable if you are unable or unwilling to travel.

Employment details

This is a full-time role based in the Munich area, with a hybrid work setup. Compensation starts at €45,000 to €58,000 gross per year, depending on experience, and is expected to increase as the role expands. The company is still growing and is transparent that this is not a large-agency salary, but it aims to compensate fairly while building a sustainable business.

The position is expected to evolve in responsibility, ownership, salary, and creative influence as the company grows. A training budget is included, and the team will support development in areas that strengthen both the employee and the company.

Winston Films uses Apple computers and software, together with Slack and Google Workspace. The intended start window is around September or October, though the exact date is flexible depending on the right candidate’s availability.

Application process

Applicants are asked to send a short written note or a short single-take video introducing themselves, explaining their interest in the role and in Winston Films, and sharing one personal detail not included in the CV that would help the team understand them better. Video submissions do not need editing, music, B-roll, or any production polish, and written and video applications will be considered equally.

Also required are a reel or portfolio that ideally includes both film and motion/design work, a short written summary of one or two portfolio projects that the candidate is especially proud of, and a CV showing training, experience, tools, languages, and previous work.

The company values taste, curiosity, attitude, and storytelling ability more than a perfectly polished CV. The hiring process includes an introductory conversation, a paid trial day on a real project or shoot, and then a six-month trial period.

Equal opportunity

Winston Films states that it is an equal opportunity employer.

Additional information

The role offers European travel and may require short-notice trips. The company expects the person hired to help shape their role over time as the business develops.

Contact

Applications are to be submitted by email to the company. The founders are Laurent Masson and Simone Punzo.