Motion Designer

About The Role: Motion Designer at Sporty Group

Football.com, a rapidly expanding digital sports brand with a significant presence in Africa, particularly Nigeria and Ghana, is seeking an experienced Motion Designer. Millions of passionate football fans engage with our platforms, making the game central to everyday culture in these regions.

As a Motion Designer, you will join our creative team to build engaging and impactful visual content for various marketing channels. This role is crucial for strengthening our brand identity, fueling growth across African markets, and bringing football stories to life through dynamic and captivating design.

The ideal candidate is a creative storyteller with a proven background in motion graphics for marketing and social media. You will transform ideas into bold, visually compelling campaigns that truly resonate with football fans. Working closely with the wider marketing team, under the guidance of the Marketing Design Lead, you will ensure all creative output is effective and perfectly aligned with Sporty Group's brand vision.

What You'll Be Doing

• Create high-quality motion graphics and visual content for marketing campaigns across social media, digital advertising, and brand channels.
• Collaborate with performance marketing, brand, and content teams to ensure creative assets align with strategic business and campaign goals.
• Deliver projects from concept through to final execution, ensuring designs are on-brand, consistent, and optimised for performance.
• Contribute to campaign ideation, bringing fresh ideas and creative energy to marketing initiatives.
• Stay on top of creative trends, football culture, and emerging digital platforms to keep Football.com ahead of the curve.
• Work with analytics teams to apply performance insights and optimise creative output for maximum impact.
• Support recruitment and mentorship within the design function as Sporty Group expands its creative team.

What You'll Bring

• Degree in Design, Motion Graphics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Proven experience in a motion design or graphic design role, with a strong portfolio showcasing social media and marketing content.
• Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop) and other motion/animation tools.
• Experience creating playable ads, HTML5 animations, or interactive marketing assets (Unity, Google Web Designer, GDevelop, etc.) is highly desirable but not essential. Familiarity with Figma is a plus.
• Understanding of performance marketing creatives and how to optimise assets for engagement and conversion.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in cross-functional teams.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritise effectively, and deliver to tight deadlines.
• Passion for sport and a strong awareness of football culture.
• A proactive, curious, and self-motivated mindset, with the adaptability to thrive in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.

What’s In It For You

• Sporty Group operates as a remote-first company, committed to sustainability.
• A competitive salary complemented by individual performance-based bonuses every quarter.
• Enjoy 28 days of paid annual leave.
• Core working hours are 10 am-3 pm in your local time zone, with flexibility beyond these hours.
• Benefit from referral bonuses and flash bonuses.
• Receive top-of-the-line equipment to support your work.
• Participate in annual company retreats, fostering excellent internal networking opportunities.

Key skills/competency

• Motion Graphics
• Adobe Creative Suite
• After Effects
• Marketing Content
• Social Media Design
• Brand Identity
• Campaign Ideation
• Performance Marketing
• Football Culture
• Remote Collaboration