Senior Motion Designer
Senior Motion Designer at Zopa, a UK digital bank, owning and evolving the brand's motion language across campaigns, paid social, web and CRM. Day-to-day is hands-on motion craft in After Effects (plus Figma and Adobe Creative Suite), building reusable templates and testing short-form video variants, in a hybrid London role (2-3 office days/week).
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- London
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Design
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Portfolio with deep motion expertise across brand, campaign and performance work for digital channels
- After Effects as a core strength, with working experience of Figma, Adobe Creative Suite and video-editing workflows
- Explain your contribution from idea to final delivery, make supporting design changes and lead the animation
- Paid-social experience: short-form video, testing, variants and platform adaptation
- Built reusable templates or libraries others can use
- Craft in rhythm, timing, typography, sound, accessibility and finish
- Clear reasoning behind creative choices; able to brief partners and bring stakeholders along
- Bring ideas early, work constructively with others and take responsibility for moving work forward
- Interest in AI tools and ability to explain where they add value vs. human craft
Nice to have
- Familiarity with fintech, financial services or another complex product category
- Experience with 3D, real-time or generative tools
- Hands-on AI production experience with clear quality checks before work goes live
- Time in an in-house studio alongside specialist agencies
Full description
Our StoryHello there. We’re Zopa.
We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at !
We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. It’s not just industry awards we’re winning, we’ve also been named in the top three UK’s Most Loved Workplaces.
If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa, so join us, and make it count. Want to see us in action? Follow us on Instagram @zopalife
The team
Our Brand Design and Creative team brings Zopa’s story to life across campaigns, performance marketing and owned channels. As our products and marketing grow, we’re looking for a Senior Motion Designer to help shape how the brand moves and make its value clear to customers.
Reporting to the Head of Brand Design and Creative, you’ll work closely with our Senior Brand Designer and Senior Social Designer, alongside marketers, writers and specialist partners. You’ll own and evolve our existing motion language and build the tools that help the wider team use it well.
This is a hands-on role across brand, campaign and marketing motion, with opportunities to collaborate with our product motion team where the experiences connect.
A day in the life
- 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.