Freelance Motion Graphics Designer in City of London

We're the fastest growing EdTech startup in London, on a mission to change education forever. This is a moment where AI-native companies are reshaping entire industries. Medly is building that company for education. Since launch, we've reached over 400,000 students with retention rates that beat Duolingo, and we've delivered personalised learning with real results. We're backed by impact-focused VCs and supported by partners including UCL, Innovate UK, Microsoft, and Google.

We're looking for a freelance Motion Graphics Designer to work with our brand, growth, and product teams on an ongoing, rolling basis, remotely. You'll produce motion work across our marketing and our product - from ads and social to the animations inside the app students use every day. This is a hands-on role. You'll take briefs from rough idea to finished animation across marketing, brand, educational content, and in-product motion, owning the work end to end.

What you'll do:

• 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

What we're looking for:

• 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

Bonus points:

• 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

How we'll work together:

• Ongoing, rolling freelance engagement - not a one-off project
• Fully remote, with flexible hours
• We'll agree scope and timeline for each brief
• Paid a competitive day rate for days worked, invoiced monthly
• You'll need to be UK-based and able to invoice as a freelancer or contractor

Who thrives here:

• You care about quality and take pride in work that holds up under scrutiny
• Self-directed - you can own a brief end to end and manage your own time
• Fast and iterative; happy to ship, take feedback, and refine
• Comfortable working with a startup that moves very quickly and where priorities shift often