Performance Marketing Motion Designer / Video Editor (Spain)

Location: Madrid, Spain; hybrid role requiring attendance at the Madrid office 2–3 days per week

Compensation: Day rate; exact amount not specified

Company

Canva is a global design platform used by more than 250 million monthly active users in over 190 countries.

What you will do

• Lead motion design for social-first performance creative, animating Canva product and brand assets.
• Create and optimize short-form social and YouTube ads through rapid sprint cycles and weekly performance feedback.
• Develop YouTube assets with platform-specific pacing, storytelling, polish, and retention goals.
• Recut creator and UGC footage into native-feeling content for Meta, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and other channels.
• Create motion assets for performance and brand campaigns, with occasional support for lifecycle, events, partnerships, and static graphic design.
• Experiment with AI and modern motion-design tools to improve creative production workflows.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of motion design experience and a portfolio of shipped work across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube.
• Strong proficiency in After Effects or Cavalry, with the ability to take motion concepts from brief to delivery independently.
• Solid video-editing skills in CapCut, Canva Video, and/or Premiere Pro, including social-first editing.
• Experience editing creator content, identifying hooks, producing variants, and adapting work to different platforms.
• Interest in social media creative, comfort with data-driven feedback, and basic graphic-design literacy.
• Spanish and good English required.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, fast-moving marketing team combining creativity and data.
• Work closely with creative strategists, media experts, brand design, creative operations, and the country marketing team.
• Full-time hours under a 12-month contract.
• Virtual interviews are conducted during the hiring process.