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# Senior Motion Designer at Monzo

- **Company:** Monzo
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/8179750

## Job description

🚀 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](https://monzo.com/current-account/personal) and [business](https://monzo.com/business-banking) bank accounts, we offer [joint accounts](https://monzo.com/current-account/joint-account), [accounts for 16-17 year olds](https://monzo.com/current-account/16-17), a [free kids account](https://monzo.com/current-account/under-16s) and [credit cards](https://monzo.com/flex) in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also [save](https://monzo.com/savings), [invest](https://monzo.com/investments)and [combine their pensions](https://monzo.com/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](https://monzo.com/careers/) ✨

⭐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

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!

We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. [You can read them here.](https://monzo.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-on-using-ai-to-ace-an-interview-at-monzo)

We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out.

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## #LI-TR1

## 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](https://monzo.com/blog/diversity-and-inclusion), 2026 [Diversity and Inclusion Report](https://monzo.com/blog/our-2026-diversity-and-inclusion-report) and 2025 [Gender Pay Gap Report.](https://monzo.com/blog/gender-pay-gap-report-2025)

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.

If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊

## About Monzo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Monzo is a UK-based digital bank offering personal and business current accounts, savings, loans, investments, and insurance through a mobile-first platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series I, unicorn)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (offices also in Cardiff, Dublin, and Barcelona)
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Tom Blomfield, Gary Dolman, Jonas Huckestein Templestein, Jason Bates, Paul Rippon (current co‑CEOs are Diana Layfield and Conor Walsh)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Digital banking and financial services (consumer finance, payments, lending)
- Target customers: B2C (personal banking) and B2B/SMB (business banking); primarily UK‑based, with growing EU presence
- Mission or purpose statement: “Building a bank you’d be proud to use” – focused on solving problems, not selling financial products, and making money work for everyone.

## Products & Services
- **Personal Current Account**: Mobile‑banking account with budgeting tools, spending insights, and automated savings. Features real‑time notifications, card controls, and biometric authentication.
- **Business Current Account**: Separate account for small businesses with expense categorisation, invoicing, and integration with accounting software.
- **Savings Pots**: Sub‑accounts inside the app to save toward goals; includes interest‑bearing options.
- **Credit Cards & Loans**: Personal credit cards, overdrafts, and Flex (buy‑now‑pay‑later style borrowing). Also offers personal loans.
- **Investments**: Share dealing and ISA products (introduced in 2024).
- **Insurance**: Home, travel, and gadget insurance (underwritten by partners).
- **Pension Management**: Tools to manage and consolidate pension pots within the app.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $5.2 B (current, per Tracxn; latest round Series I)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue £1 B+ (as of 31 Mar 2025), total funding $1.81 B
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst, Passion Capital, Accel (lead investors in previous rounds)
- **Growth Signals**: 15 million+ personal and business customers; headcount of ~3,786 (YoY growth 26.8% per Revelio Labs); expansion into EU via Dublin office; launched investment and pension products in 2024; continued lending product innovation (Flex, credit cards).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Community‑driven product development** – Customers actively suggest features, test the app, and give feedback, creating strong brand loyalty.
- **Mobile‑first architecture** – Built from scratch as a digital‑only bank, offering a seamless user experience with real‑time budgeting and spending insights.
- **Regulatory innovation** – One of the first UK challengers to obtain a full banking licence, enabling deposit‑taking and lending.
- **Open‑source culture** – Engages with the engineering community through open‑source contributions and transparent development.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Deepening lending and investment offerings, and building a wealth management suite.
- **International growth**: Scaling in the European market (office in Barcelona, Dublin hub, and hiring for EU‑focused roles).
- **Embedded finance**: Enabling third‑party services to use Monzo’s banking infrastructure.
- **Operational efficiency**: Using AI/ML for risk management, fraud detection, and personalised financial recommendations.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Open, collaborative, and inclusive; regular community events, yoga, and lunch‑and‑learns; contributes to open‑source software.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Office‑based roles allow occasional remote work; distributed workers receive equipment budget. Roles in London, Cardiff, Dublin, Barcelona, or UK‑remote.
- **Visas**: Monzo sponsors visas for tech, engineering, and product roles due to Home Office regulations.
- **Learning**: £1,000 annual budget for books, courses, and conferences; regular knowledge‑sharing sessions.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Annual salary reviews; performance‑based incentive awards (cash/equity mix); pension (4% Monzo contribution, matching up to 6%); private healthcare; life insurance (4x salary); 26 days holiday + bank holidays (or opt‑out for 34 days); 8‑week sabbatical every 5 years; generous family leave (primary caregiver 26 weeks full pay, secondary 13 weeks full pay); paid sick leave; cycle‑to‑work scheme.
- **Office Perks**: Free breakfast, hot lunches twice a week, snacks, and drinks in London office.

## Sources
1. [monzo.com/careers](https://monzo.com/careers) – Benefits, visa policy, flexible working, culture
2. [monzo.com/about](https://monzo.com/about) – Company overview, mission, customer count
3. [tracxn.com/d/companies/monzo](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/monzo/__HguZJzK7Q_qZsyIz1Y4VwV75H5fHjDMtGaXPelPAxpU) – Funding, valuation, revenue, employee count, founders, CEOs
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/monzo](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/7963253) – Open roles, location details
5. [reveliolabs.com/companies/monzo-bank/employees](https://www.reveliolabs.com/companies/monzo-bank/employees/) – Headcount growth

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