Senior Motion Designer

Department: Design

Location: São Paulo

Employment Type: FullTime

About Nu

Nu is the leading digital bank in Latin America, serving 140 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. The company has been leading an industry transformation by leveraging data and proprietary technology to develop innovative products and services.

Guided by its mission to fight complexity and empower people, Nu caters to customers’ complete financial journey, promoting financial access and advancement with responsible lending and transparency. The company is powered by an efficient and scalable business model that combines low cost to serve with growing returns.

Nu’s impact has been recognized in multiple awards, including Time 100 Most Influential Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Banks.

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• Define and evolve our global motion language across products, embedding it into the design system as reusable patterns.

• Lead motion design for high-impact product areas, balancing usability, performance, and brand.

• Translate concepts like trust and delight into functional motion patterns.

• Partner with design, engineering, research, and brand to integrate motion into workflows and product strategy.

• Mentor designers and raise the bar on motion craft, including critique rituals and execution benchmarks.

• Ensure motion works across devices, markets, bandwidth, and accessibility standards (e.g., prefers-reduced-motion), partnering with localization and accessibility teams.

• Use AI tools to scale the practice, and define metrics tying motion to usability, adoption, and retention.Define and evolve our global motion language across products, embedding it into the design system as reusable patterns.

• Lead motion design for high-impact product areas, balancing usability, performance, and brand.

• Translate concepts like trust and delight into functional motion patterns.

• Partner with design, engineering, research, and brand to integrate motion into workflows and product strategy.

• Mentor designers and raise the bar on motion craft, including critique rituals and execution benchmarks.

• Ensure motion works across devices, markets, bandwidth, and accessibility standards (e.g., prefers-reduced-motion), partnering with localization and accessibility teams.

• Use AI tools to scale the practice, and define metrics tying motion to usability, adoption, and retention.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading motion design for digital products at scale.

• Expertise in animation, interaction design, and prototyping (After Effects, Principle, ProtoPie, Figma, AI tools).

• Strong portfolio showing motion systems and end-to-end product work.

• Experience partnering with engineering to ship motion (CSS animations, Rive, native platforms).

• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence without authority.

• Knowledge of accessibility, performance, and global motion standards.

Benefits

• Chance of earning equity at Nubank

• Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)

• Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)

• NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program

• Life Insurance

• Medical Plan

• Dental Plan

• NuLanguage – Language Course Program

• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses

• Extended Parental Leave

• Daycare Allowance

• Parental Consultancy

• Work-from-home Allowance

• Gym Partnerships

• 30 days of paid vacation

• Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable

Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence–enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process. Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers.