Motion Designer, Monzo
£60-75k
+ Share options
Digital-only bank platform and marketplace
Posted today
Digital-only bank platform and marketplace
1001+ employees
Posted today
£60-75k
+ Share options
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a new kind of bank that makes money work for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- You have a proven track record in motion design roles, with a strong portfolio or reel demonstrating your work in branding, animation 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 the job involves
- We’re a team of 80+ 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 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
- Creative Motion Design. Shaping how Monzo's brand looks, feels, and moves across various channels. You'll concept, design, and animate engaging content, from scroll-stopping ads to launch videos and branded visuals for major events
- 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
Application process
- The application journey has 3 key steps
- 30-minute call with our Recruiter, Tom
- 1-hour craft interview with two members of the Design team
- 1-hour interview covering values & ways of working
- To help us understand your skills and experience, we kindly ask that you include both your CV and a portfolio showcasing your work. This process should take around 3-4 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Monzo is a challenger bank that fully operates online and offers a full range of current, savings, business accounts, and more. The speed of the challenger banks to provide a great experience has been impressive, and the number of competitors appearing has proven the consumer desire for innovation.
Monzo remains one of the popular online banks, with more than 6 million active users. The company faces competition from more traditional banks, such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, which have launched their own digital banks. However, the new technologies that the company is built on enable it to expand quickly (with fewer issues) than the incumbent players' offerings.
With an increasing amount of people switching banks, the company's ever-expanding suite of banking and financial services (such as its buy-now-pay-later offering) has resulted in Monzo receiving the second-highest net switching gains among digital challenger banks (just behind Starling).
After setting U.S. expansion plans aside in 2020, the company launched in the U.S. market in early 2022, partnering with Sutton Bank to provide its U.S. accounts. After several years focused on narrowing its losses, Monzo hit profitability in the first two months of 2023. In the same year, 2 million new customers joined, tallying its customer base at 9 million in 2024.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 18 rounds)
May 2024
$190m
LATE VC
Mar 2024
$461.7m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.9bn
Company benefits
- Yearly Salary Review + Proactive pay increases to reflect growing responsibilities + Share options
- Flexible working hours
- Work From Home Opportunities + we'll pay for any equipment you need to do your job
- 24 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays
- Paid sick leave for both physical & mental health + Health insurance via AXA or Vitality + Additional health insurance through Medicash
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Learning budget of £1,000 a year
- Aviva Pension Scheme + 4% Employer Contribution
- Paid maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave (after 13 weeks of employment)
- 52 weeks of primary caregiver leave (6 months at 100% pay, 13 weeks at Statutory Maternity Pay, 13 weeks unpaid)
- 3 months of secondary caregiver leave at 100% pay
- Unum Life Insurance
- Access to fertility and family-forming health benefits via Fertifa
- Abellio Season Travel Tickets + Cycle-to-Work Scheme
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
TS Anil
(CEO)Also a Board Member at Accion. Previously Board Member at UK Finance, Global Head of Payments, Products & Platforms at Visa and was the Global Head of Retail Products at Standard Chartered Bank.
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