Senior Motion Designer . Monzo

Design Better Podcast; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

£1,000 learning budget per year

Macbooks provided

Job summary

Monzo is seeking an experienced Senior Motion Designer to shape the bank's visual identity through dynamic 2D motion across in-app, campaigns and product UI.

You'll collaborate with designers, writers and marketing to deliver high-quality animations, evolve branding, and drive innovative ideas within a hybrid London team.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in motion design with branding and in-app animation.

Responsibilities

• Create motion designs shaping Monzo's brand across channels.

Skills

Motion design

After Effects

Adobe Creative Suite

LottieFiles

Rive

Branding

Storytelling

Typography

Communication

Project management

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

Figma

FigJam

Blender

Cinema 4D

Job description

Full-time Mid Career (3-8 years) Motion Design

About this role

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.

Key responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications & experience

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
• 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!

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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.

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.