Senior Motion Designer

The role

You will own and evolve Zopa's motion principles and create motion for brand, campaigns, paid social and web. You will also build templates and asset libraries for the wider team.

What you will do

• Own and evolve Zopa's motion principles across typography, illustration, products and graphic devices.
• Bring campaign ideas and storyboards to life, contributing motion thinking from the earliest concepts.
• Create short-form motion for paid social and video, adapting hooks, messages and formats for testing.
• Partner with Performance Marketing to turn live learnings into the next round of creative.
• Build useful templates, components and asset libraries that help colleagues and partners deliver consistently.
• Make complex products and customer benefits easy to understand through clear, engaging stories.
• Produce motion for web, CRM, social and launch communications, with care for accessibility and delivery requirements.
• Brief and review specialist production partners while maintaining Zopa's motion standards.
• Explore AI-assisted workflows for ideas, iteration and production, applying your judgement to every output.

Required qualifications

• Portfolio showing deep motion expertise across brand, campaign and performance work for digital channels.
• After Effects as a core strength.
• Working experience of Figma, Adobe Creative Suite and video-editing workflows.
• From idea to final delivery: explain your contribution, make supporting design changes and lead the animation.
• Paid-social experience including short-form video, testing, variants and platform adaptation.
• Experience building reusable templates or libraries that other people can use.
• Craft across rhythm and timing, typography, sound, accessibility and finish.
• Creative choices backed by clear reasoning; able to brief partners and bring stakeholders with you.
• Bring ideas early, work constructively with others and take responsibility for moving work forward.
• Interest in AI tools; able to explain where they add value and where human craft should lead.

Nice to have

• Fintech, financial services or another complex product category.
• Experience with 3D, real-time or generative tools.
• Hands-on AI production experience including clear quality checks before work goes live.
• Time in an in-house studio alongside specialist agencies.

Benefits

• Flexible ways of working.
• Option to work from abroad for up to 120 days a year, subject to right to work.
• Support for work and home life from day one.

Before you apply

• Option to work from abroad is subject to having the right to work in the country of choice.
• Behavioural and competency-based interviews: do not use AI.
• Technical interviews: AI use depends on the stage; your Talent Partner will say what is expected.

About the company

Zopa started in 2005 as a peer-to-peer lending company and launched Zopa Bank in 2020. It describes itself as a bank that does the opposite of what customers dislike about finance.