Senior Motion Designer

Whereby; Deutschland; Hybrid; EUR 70.000 - 84.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Learning budget

MacBook provided

Flexible hours

Home-office support

Zusammenfassung

Monzo is seeking a Senior Motion Designer to shape our visual identity through dynamic motion and high-quality animation. You’ll collaborate with designers and writers, delivering content that supports campaigns, product UI, and marketing across channels.

You’ll bring expert After Effects and Adobe Creative Suite skills, plus experience with LottieFiles/Rive and 2D animation. A strong portfolio and brand storytelling are essential.

Qualifikationen

• Proven track record in motion design with portfolio in branding and in-app animation.
• Expert proficiency in After Effects and Photoshop/Illustrator.
• Experience with Figma asset workflows and collaborative brainstorming.
• Strong understanding of design principles, color theory and typography.
• Excellent communication and time management in fast-paced environments.
• Ability to design within brand guidelines and evolve them.

Aufgaben

• Create motion design across channels including in-app, ads, and campaigns.
• Collaborate with product designers, engineers, writers and marketing leads.
• Develop motion storyboards and animate assets; build a library of core animations.
• Ensure brand consistency and evolve brand identity through motion.

Kenntnisse

Motion design

After Effects

Adobe Creative Suite

Brand storytelling

2D animation

LottieFiles / Rive

Tools

Figma

FigJam

Cinema 4D

Blender

Jobbeschreibung

We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us.

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo

London (Hybrid) | £60,000 - £72,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + Benefits

Our Design Team

We’re a team of 115+ designers, researchers, and brand experts led by Chief Design Officer, Vuokko Aro. We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.
We’re seeking an experienced and versatile Senior Motion Designer with a strong portfolio in motion graphics, animation and creative ideation.

In this role, you’ll shape Monzo’s visual identity through dynamic motion, deliver high-quality animation solutions aligned with strategic goals, and drive innovative ideas as a conceptual thinker. Your designs will combine creativity and vision, ensuring they’re both compelling and rooted in strong concepts. As part of our dynamic internal creative studio, you’ll collaborate with designers and writers, exchanging feedback and raising design standards.

Working closely with the Creative Director, you’ll ensure consistency and evolve the Monzo brand by partnering with product designers, marketing teams, and external agencies. Key projects include developing motion storyboards, creating animated campaign assets, collaborating on motion for web and product designs and elevating internal design projects.

You’ll play a key role by…

• Creative Motion Design. Shaping how Monzo's brand looks, feels, and moves across various channels. You'll concept, design, and animate engaging content, from in-app animations to scroll-stopping ads and launch videos.
• Work closely with product designers and engineers to bring motion design to life within the product, using tools like LottieFiles or Rive to implement animations directly into the app experience.
• Collaboration & Storytelling. Working closely with writers, designers, and marketing leads, you’ll help bring big ideas to life with motion and creativity. You'll create world-class animations to drive rich narrative elements across integrated touchpoints like campaigns, email, web, and product UI. You’ll be knowledgeable in understanding safe zones for growth assets, compliance and size ratios across all communication channels like Meta and Youtube.
• Hands-On Animation. You’ll be hands-on in crafting work, from concepting storylines and visuals for scripts to designing storyboards and animation tests for proof of concept. You’ll animate in a variety of 2D styles and techniques and help build a library of core brand animations for use across multiple touchpoints. You’ll be animating our branded illustrations and learning from the best at bringing those magic touches to life.
• Brand Evolution. Maintain and apply knowledge of our brand identity systems while also exploring opportunities to evolve these systems to support our stakeholders as needed. You’ll manage your time effectively to meet deadlines and delivery schedules.

We’d love to hear from you if…

• You have a proven track record in motion design roles, with a strong portfolio or reel demonstrating your work in branding, in-app interactive animation (using tools like LottieFiles or Rive) and visual storytelling.
• You demonstrate expert proficiency in After Effects and Adobe Creative Suite (including Photoshop, Illustrator).
• You have experience in Figma asset import and export. You'll actively participate in FigJam brainstorming sessions and collaborate with the team.
• You possess a strong understanding of design principles, colour theory and typography.
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate complex motion concepts clearly to both internal teams and stakeholders.
• You can manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight deadlines.
• You have experience in fast-paced environments, perhaps within tech startups or working on engaging brands.
• You’re obsessed with strategically designing within a brand, and have strong skills with evolving within brand guidelines.
• Motion skills or 3D programs (like Blender or Cinema 4D) are a plus.

What’s in it for you

£60,000 - £72,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance

We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.

£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.

Plus lots more!

The application journey has 4 key steps

• 30-minute call with our Recruiter, Tom
• 1-hour Craft interview, where you’ll present either a single case study or your portfolio
• A take-home task for you to complete in your own time
• 1-hour final interview, where we’ll review your take-home task and explore values & ways of working

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Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2025 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

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