Freelance Motion Graphics Designer

London, UK (Remote)

£35/hr – £45/hrIntern/New GradOther

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end motion across marketing and product, turning briefs into on-brand animation that fuels the funnel and educates students.

  • Marketing Motion: Create social/ad creative and landing-page motion to move users through the funnel.
  • In-app Motion: Design micro-interactions and animation delivered as Lottie/Rive assets.
  • Foundational Production & Collaboration: Turn briefs into finished animations and partner with brand, growth, content, and engineering to align funnel and product.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Create marketing and social creative - paid ads, organic social, and landing-page motion
  • Design and animate in-product motion - micro-interactions, transitions, and character/mascot animation in the app, delivered as Lottie/Rive where needed
  • Produce short-form educational video - lesson intros, concept explainers, and clips for students
  • Produce brand and launch content - brand films and announcement videos
  • Turn briefs and storyboards into finished, on-brand animations, owning each one from concept to final export
  • Partner with brand, growth, content, and engineering so motion strengthens both the marketing funnel and the product

Requirements

  • A strong showreel and portfolio spanning more than one of: social/ad creative, explainer video, brand film, or in-app animation
  • Mastery of After Effects and the wider Adobe suite, and comfortable designing in Figma
  • Strong animation fundamentals - timing, easing, composition, and type in motion
  • Able to take a brief and run with it independently, delivering finished work to deadline
  • Reliable, communicative, and easy to collaborate with as a remote freelancer
  • You’ll need to be UK-based and able to invoice as a freelancer or contractor

Preferred

  • Hands-on experience shipping in-app animation with Lottie and/or Rive
  • Illustration, character design, or sound design skills
  • Experience producing educational or explainer content
  • Comfort editing footage in Premiere alongside motion graphics
  • Interest in education and how students actually learn

Benefits

  • Fully remote, with flexible hours
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Medly AI

At Medly, our mission is to democratise education, by providing a personalised AI tutor for every student. Medly is a startup founded by two doctors with backgrounds in tech and teaching who left the NHS, as we wanted to democratise access to personalised education. Our proprietary AI architecture, combines neuroscience with teaching theory to create truly adaptive learning experiences. Unlike traditional one-size-fits-all approaches, our AI tutor learns and evolves with each student, adapting to their knowledge gaps in their curriculum delivering personalised education at scale. We're a small, extremely mission driven company that is growing fast and is backed by Innovate UK, impact focused venture capital and both Microsoft and Google's Startup programmes.

Founded in 2023
London, England, GBR
22 employees (7 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
594.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$38
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25%
Direct
62.4%
Referral
0.7%
Social
9.8%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~22

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (18% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$3.7M
Last Raise
$2.2M
Seed, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2025
    Seed • $2.2M
  • Aug 2024
    Seed • $1.5M
  • May 2024
    Seed