Senior Motion Designer

About Nu

Nu serves more than 140 million customers, guided by a mission to fight complexity and empower people. The company has been leading an industry transformation through innovative products and human-centered services.

Proprietary technology and data at scale power Nu’s digital platform, built to promote financial access, advancement, and transparency. Its business model thrives on customer love and lower costs, feeding a flywheel of growth and profitability.

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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.

To maintain a consistent and fair process for every candidate, Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback. See how our policy works here