Moniepoint, Africa's second-fastest-growing company, is hiring a motion designer to work remotely from Nigeria on products used by over 3 million people. The role is not a brand-video position buried inside marketing. Motion here sits inside the product team, alongside engineers and designers building tools for business banking, payments, and credit.
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About Moniepoint
Moniepoint launched in 2019 and has grown into one of Africa's most widely used financial platforms, offering business banking, personal banking, payments, credit, and business management tools in a single product.
The company is design-driven, with a cross-functional structure where motion designers work directly with product designers, engineers, illustrators, and marketing. Access to the full product stack at that level of scale is not something most Nigerian design roles offer.
What the Role Involves
- Design and prototype motion interactions for Moniepoint's web and mobile products
- Build micro-interactions and UI animations that guide users through financial tasks, payments, onboarding, and credit applications
- Define and maintain motion principles inside the company's design system
- Collaborate with engineers during handoff to ensure animations perform well in production
- Create marketing motion graphics for brand campaigns alongside the marketing team
- Iterate on work based on usability testing and performance data
- Track where motion design is heading - new interaction patterns, fintech-specific UX shifts, and tool evolution
The listing is specific about tools: After Effects, Figma, Framer, Principle, Lottie, Rive, and CSS animations. Fluency in most of these is expected, not just one.
What They Want
Must Have
- Strong hands-on experience in interactive motion design, micro-interactions, and UI animations
- Proficiency across After Effects, Figma, Framer, Principle, Lottie, Rive, and CSS animations
- Solid grasp of timing, easing, and physics - the difference between an animation that feels right and one that doesn't
- Ability to work within a design system and contribute to scalable motion guidelines
- Experience working closely with engineers, not just handing over files, but solving implementation problems together
- Understanding of accessibility in motion design (reduced motion preferences, seizure risk thresholds)
- Ability to balance visual craft with performance constraints
GizPulse inference - not stated in the listing: Prior experience in fintech or SaaS, exposure to animating for financial concepts (trust signals, progress states, error handling), and a portfolio spanning both product animations and marketing motion graphics would all be competitive advantages.
Salary and Benefits
Moniepoint lists "competitive compensation and benefits package" without disclosing a figure.
For context: senior motion designers at well-funded Nigerian tech companies typically earn ₦400,000 to ₦1,500,000 per month. Experience level determines where you land in that range. At Moniepoint's stage of growth, the upper end or above is reasonable to expect, but ask for the actual number on the recruiter call.
Other listed benefits:
- Remote-friendly work culture
- Access to learning resources (type not specified)
- Exposure to a high-growth, cross-functional product team
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Is This Open to Nigerians?
Yes - unambiguously. The listing states "Remote, Lagos, Nigeria" and "Remote, Nigeria" as the primary locations. Payment in naira or USD is not confirmed.
Whether applicants based outside Nigeria can apply is not stated.
How to Apply
- Go to the application page:
- Fill in your name, email, phone, and country
- Upload your CV in PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT, or RTF format
- Provide your portfolio link - mandatory
What your portfolio must show: Moniepoint wants micro-interactions, product animations, and marketing motion graphics.
They also want to see your process and decision-making, not just the final output. If you have fintech or SaaS work, put it first. If you don't, show how your motion works and is connected to user behaviour or product outcomes, not just how it looks. A portfolio of showreel-style videos without process context will likely not clear the first review.
- Add your LinkedIn profile and personal website if relevant
- Complete the NDPA consent and optional demographic questions
- No stated deadline, but do not treat "rolling" as indefinite
The Hiring Process
Moniepoint runs five stages:
- Application and portfolio review: craft, creativity, and output quality
- Recruiter phone call: background, expectations, and fit
- Design interview: your motion process, tools, and how you collaborate with engineers
- Motion Design Challenge: an open-ended scenario testing craft, systems thinking, and communication.
- Executive conversation: final discussion with senior leadership on vision and culture alignment
GizPulse Verdict
Moniepoint has 3 million users and is named Africa's second-fastest-growing company. The product is real, and the team is large enough that a motion designer here would be contributing to a design system, not producing vanity animations in isolation.
Who this is for: A mid-to-senior motion designer who has worked inside a product team, not just an agency; knows what a design system is; and has a portfolio that includes product animations, not only marketing content.
Who should think twice: Junior designers whose portfolios are built on social media reels and brand work. The engineering collaboration requirements and design system contribute to someone who can operate independently within a product organisation.
One tip: Before the Motion Design Challenge lands in your inbox, go through the Moniepoint app onboarding, payment flows, and error states. Note what feels rough or inconsistent. When the brief arrives, bring that product knowledge into your solution. Candidates who understand what already exists will produce work that is immediately useful, not just technically clean.