Rose began his career running the cinemas at the Bristol's Watershed Media Centre and Arnolfini Gallery in the 1980s.
[3] He worked with Channel Four Television and later joined Aardman Animations in 1994 as Head of Development.
[4] Rose headed the feature film division of Aardman Animations and was executive producer for animated films such as Chicken Run and the Oscar and BAFTA-winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
[5] Rose also produced the 1995 Oscar-winning Wallace & Gromit film, A Close Shave, directed by Nick Park.
[6] In 2003 Rose, alongside producer Martin Pope, co-founded Magic Light Pictures,[7] a London-based independent film production company which produced animated films including The Gruffalo and The Snail and the Whale, which was nominated for 4 Oscars and won 4 BAFTAs.