As a Motion Graphics Designer, you'll create and animate visuals for campaigns, collaborating with teams to enhance Xero's brand storytelling.
Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
How you’ll make an impact
As a Motion Graphics Designer in the Visual Media team, you’ll help shape how over 4.4 million subscribers see and experience the Xero brand. You’ll bring ideas to life through animation, illustration, and storytelling. Transforming complex information into visually engaging content that connects with small businesses across the globe.
Working closely with our global team and fellow creatives in the Hub, Xero’s in-house creative agency, you’ll craft videos and visuals that are not just beautiful, but purposeful. From product launches to brand campaigns, your motion work will play a key role in how we inspire, educate, and connect with our audience at scale.
You’ll also be part of a collaborative environment where feedback flows freely, ideas are shared openly, and creativity is celebrated. Whether you’re supporting large-scale global campaigns or creating assets for product and UI, your craft will help elevate Xero’s visual storytelling every step of the way.
If you think in frames, dream in motion, and have the portfolio to prove it, we’d love to connect.
This is a parental leave cover role that could go permanent.
What you’ll do
- Design and animate high-quality motion graphics, iconography, and illustrations that align with Xero’s brand and elevate our storytelling across global campaigns
- Collaborate with writers, designers, marketers, and fellow motion designers to concept and produce engaging content for a range of channels including video, social, digital, and more.
- Support the development of storyboards, scripts, and visual treatments that bring ideas to life in a clear, compelling way
- Maintain a high level of craft and brand consistency across all motion work, from quick-turn animations to large-scale product and marketing videos
- Contribute to the evolution of our illustration and motion systems, helping build reusable assets and expand the creative potential of our library
- Work with producers to manage timelines and deliver high-quality content on time and on brief
- Stay curious. Bring fresh ideas, new techniques, and a creative eye to every project.
- Participate in feedback sessions and team critiques with openness, contributing to a culture of creativity, growth, and collaboration
What you’ll bring with you
- A showreel is essential. Applications without one will not be considered.
- 3 to 5 years of relevant industry experience as a motion graphics designer with focus on animation
- Excellent portfolio showcasing your skills in motion design, animation, and illustration
- Proficiency in industry-standard tools like After Effects, Illustrator; familiarity with Cinema 4D, Unreal or Rive is a plus
- Solid understanding of animation principles, visual composition, timing, and pacing
- A collaborative mindset and strong communication skills. You’re comfortable sharing ideas, taking feedback, and working with creatives and stakeholders alike
- The ability to work across multiple projects with varying timelines, while maintaining high quality and attention to detail
- A desire to grow and experiment. Staying curious about new motion trends, AI tools, and storytelling techniques.
- An understanding of brand consistency, and how to adapt your work to fit a unified visual identity
Why Xero?
Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.
Top Skills
After Effects
Cinema 4D
Illustrator
Rive
Unreal
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