motion graphics designer London, England
Freetrade
Full Time
London, England
28936 - 28000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
London
At Freetrade, we believe investing should be accessible to everyone. It’s one of the best ways to grow your savings but, for many, it seems complicated, expensive, and out of reach.
At Freetrade, we believe investing should be accessible to everyone. It’s one of the best ways to grow your savings but, for many, it seems complicated, expensive, and out of reach.
We’re here to change that.
We're a technology company that brings simple investing to everyone. We’ve built a beautiful app to buy and sell shares and ETFs in a fluid, mobile-first experience.
We’re building a team with diverse and unique perspectives in order to help us on our mission to demystify investing.
Our goal is to help our customers achieve better, long-term financial outcomes.
In 2023, we’ll be launching across the EU, following our successful launch in Sweden. We’ll also be transforming our product, developing new features and introducing new products. In the UK, we now have over 1.3m registered users, offering a range of products like the Freetrade Pension, a stocks and shares ISA, and our premium plan, Freetrade Plus.
Our growth has all been possible because of the backing of a passionate group of over 15,000 crowdfunding investors. As we’ve scaled, we’ve also raised money from world-class growth investors including Left Lane Capital, Molten Ventures, and L Catterton.
We are looking for an exceptional Graphic & motion designer to join our team. You will primarily be working with the marketing team to build our brand and drive commercial growth objectives.
You will:
- Develop the Freetrade brand across new and existing channels and ad placements for marketing.
- Work closely with product design to ensure consistent messaging and design across all assets.
- Deliver static and motion assets to support marketing and the wider business.
- Tailor designs to the marketing channel, having a keen knowledge of what design execution works best across different channels; from Instagram to print.
- Build on our current illustration base, evolving the designs with the brand.
- Analyse market trends to ensure our ads are market leading.
- Work cross-functionally to help ensure design consistency across the business.
- Use data to effectively optimise marketing assets. Creating iterative designs to maximise the effectiveness of our advertising
- Build positive relationships with cross-functional teams to ensure the design process is efficient.
- Identify design challenges and run workshops with the team to deliver improvements in design output and processes.
About you:
- You have 2-3 years of design experience, ideally within financial services, a startup, a scale-up environment or agency.
- You are a Graphic Designer with some experience with motion graphics. Ideally After Effects, Cinema 4D, 3DS Max, Blender and Lottie animation.
- You have superb knowledge of Figma and Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
- You have experience managing the creative process from inception to go live.
- You have proven graphic design experience and a strong portfolio.
- You have a keen interest in AI and how it can be leveraged to improve output and increase efficiency within design.
- You are comfortable working in a fast paced environment with changing and competing priorities.
- You are organised, can prioritise work efficiently and work within tight deadlines
- You have a growth mindset and are always looking for incremental improvements.
- You are scrappy and hands-on with no hesitation to get in the weeds.
- You have a degree in Art, Graphic Design, or a related discipline, ideally with further qualifications or openness to getting qualified within financial services i.e IOC.
- You have superb visual and concept skills
- You have a keen eye for detail and aesthetics
- You have a collaborative and a can-do attitude
- You are driven by Freetrades mission and uphold our values.
Benefits & Logistics
We offer a competitive salary plus stock options and lots of other benefits.
You’ll have a stake in the company you’re building, with stock options benchmarked to US companies.
The application process consists of a four stage process. You will initially have a phone interview with one of our internal Talent Specialists, followed by a call with the hiring manager and a run through of your portfolio, a cultural and behavioural interview, with the final round being a task with the hiring manager and members of the wider Marketing team.
The application process consists of a four stage process. You will initially have a phone interview with one of our internal Talent Specialists, followed by a call with the hiring manager and a run through of your portfolio, a cultural and behavioural interview, with the final round being a task with the hiring manager and members of the wider Marketing team.
Please share your portfolio with your CV.
We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability - we want to hear from you. We're very open about what we're working on, and the best places to learn more are our buzzing community forum and our blog.
We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability - we want to hear from you. We're very open about what we're working on, and the best places to learn more are our buzzing community forum and our blog.
Please note we are not accepting agency CVs.
About Freetrade
Freetrade is an award-winning investing app with over 1 million users. Our mission is to get everyone investing by making it simpler and more affordable. We bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds, ranging from leading financial services companies to Big Tech to more. Together we are focused on building an open and transparent stockbroker you can trust.
Openness and transparency is in our DNA and applies to all aspects of our company. We encourage an open and inclusive environment and pride ourselves on being candid, curious, focused, humble and gritty.
Our headquarters are based in London and we’re hiring.
Openness and transparency is in our DNA and applies to all aspects of our company. We encourage an open and inclusive environment and pride ourselves on being candid, curious, focused, humble and gritty.
Our headquarters are based in London and we’re hiring.
Department
Design
Employment Type
Permanent - Full Time
Location
London
Workplace type
Hybrid
Reporting To
Rory Thomas
