Zapier is hiring a Senior Motion Designer for Brand Studio, the creative team behind how Zapier shows up in the world. The role turns brand briefs and UI frames into animated stories for campaigns, product launches, and the marketing site. You will own projects from storyboard to final render and help define how Zapier moves across every surface.
Overview
Compensation not specified
remote
full-time
No experience required (senior level)
Technologies
- JitterFigma Motion
Responsibilities
- Design and produce motion across product explainers, website animations, paid social video snippets, keynote and event motion, and campaign assets.
- Draft simple storyboards for straightforward projects to move quickly without a separate brief-to-board cycle.
- Work directly from UI frames provided by the product team to build polished product demo animations and feature explainers.
- Build Zapier's motion design language: ownable branded motion patterns that establish how Zapier feels in motion across every surface.
- Create motion guidelines, component libraries, and mogrts files that give partners and social teams repeatable building blocks to work from independently.
- Explore tools like Jitter and Figma Motion to enable partners to generate on-brand animated assets without Brand Studio involvement every time.
- Produce short video snippets for paid social testing across multiple angles and formats.
- Support the recurring product video format and turn it into a scalable template for future launches.
Qualifications
- Can take a UI frame or brand brief and turn it into a story that lands; asks the right questions, understands the product well enough to know what the animation needs to communicate, and does not wait for a fully baked storyboard.
- Thinks in systems: builds mogrts files, component libraries, and motion guidelines that others can use independently; treats every project as an opportunity to make the next one ship faster.
- Understands brand as well as UI: timing, easing, personality, and the emotional register that makes motion feel ownable rather than generic.
- Has a strong sense of sound and rhythm; knows how motion and sound work together and shapes that relationship intentionally.
- Understands narrative: thinks about motion like a director thinks about a scene, including setup, tension, and resolution; knows when to breathe and when to accelerate, and can articulate that thinking to stakeholders.
- Manages up with creative insight, bringing expertise into conversations proactively so stakeholders understand the why behind every creative choice.
- Uses AI as a genuine part of practice, experimenting with video tools and sharing learnings so the whole team benefits.
- Is energized by ambiguity, moves fast, and does not wait for perfect conditions.
Benefits
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