Staff Product Designer (Motion)

About the role

Deliveroo is looking for a Staff Product Designer (Motion) to join its Studio Central team in London. Studio Central is a new global product design team that sits at the intersection of product, brand and innovation, supporting Deliveroo, DoorDash, Wolt and 7Rooms. The role leads the shift toward build-first motion design, setting principles and systems that raise the quality of motion across the global product surfaces.

Key responsibilities

• Define the point of view and motion principles for how branded moments behave across products, improving the experience of customers, riders and merchants.
• Build reusable motion systems, expression frameworks, animated component libraries and AI-assisted tooling so designers can ship high-quality motion independently.
• Establish motion as a core discipline in Studio Central, including rituals, critiques and guidelines to scale the capability beyond one person.
• Partner with Product Design teams across Consumer, Ads & Promo, Rider, Merchant and New Verticals, using working prototypes instead of slide decks to advocate for in-product motion.
• Lead key brand moments from concept to production-ready, code-shippable motion (Lottie/dotLottie, CSS/JS animation, native transitions).
• Navigate ambiguous spaces to set design standards and processes across in-house teams, agencies and partners in Engineering and Marketing.

Required profile

• Proven experience in motion and visual craft at a systems level, with a track record of scaling frameworks or guidelines across multiple surfaces, products or teams.
• Demonstrated ability to move between art direction and execution, prototyping and delivering production-ready motion in code.
• Experience building structures from scratch, proposing frameworks, guidelines and operating models.
• A proactive approach to emerging technology, treating new tools as experiments to iterate on and ship quickly.

Required skills

• Motion prototyping in tools such as After Effects, Lottie or Rive.
• Delivering production-ready motion in code (Lottie/dotLottie, CSS/JS animation, native transitions).

What we offer

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• A low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment with fast shipping, testing and improvement.
• Flexible working and continuous learning.