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Zopa is a fintech company founded in 2005 as the first peer-to-peer lending platform, now operating as Zopa Bank with a mission to redefine banking by putting customers first. The Brand Design and Creative team brings Zopa's story to life across campaigns, performance marketing, and owned channels.
As Senior Motion Designer, you will report to the Head of Brand Design and Creative and work closely with the Senior Brand Designer, Senior Social Designer, marketers, writers, and specialist partners. This is a hands-on role spanning brand, campaign, and marketing motion, with opportunities to collaborate with the product motion team.
Key responsibilities include:
- 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 concept stage
- Create short-form motion for paid social and video, testing hooks, messages, and formats
- Partner with Performance Marketing to iterate on creative based on live learnings
- Build templates, components, and asset libraries for team and partner use
- Simplify complex products and customer benefits through clear, engaging motion stories
- Produce motion for web, CRM, social, and launch communications with attention to accessibility
- Brief and review specialist production partners while maintaining motion standards
- Explore AI-assisted workflows for ideas, iteration, and production with critical judgment
The role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days per week in the London office, with flexibility to work abroad up to 120 days annually (subject to work authorization).
Requirements:
- Deep motion expertise across brand, campaign, and performance work for digital channels, demonstrated in portfolio
- After Effects as a core strength; working experience with Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and video-editing workflows
- Ability to explain contributions from idea to final delivery, make supporting design changes, and lead animation
- Paid-social experience including short-form video, testing, variants, and platform adaptation
- Demonstrated practice building reusable systems: templates or libraries for team use
- Strong craft fundamentals: rhythm, timing, typography, sound, accessibility, and finish
- Ability to articulate creative reasoning and brief partners effectively
- Collaborative approach, bringing ideas early and taking responsibility for moving work forward
- Genuine interest in AI tools with ability to assess where they add value versus where human craft should lead
Bonus qualifications:
- Fintech or financial services experience
- Experience with 3D, real-time, or generative tools
- Hands-on AI production experience with quality checks
- In-house studio experience alongside specialist agencies
