[Hiring] Senior Motion Designer @Zapier

Role Description

We're looking for a Motion Designer to join Brand Studio, the creative team behind how Zapier shows up in the world. Brand Studio is a small, high-ownership team embedded in Marketing, working at the intersection of brand, product, and enterprise positioning. We care deeply about craft, think strategically about systems, and move fast when the moment calls for it.

• Design and produce motion across product explainers, website animations, paid social video snippets, keynote and event motion, and campaign assets.
• Draft simple storyboards yourself for straightforward projects so we can move fast 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

• You can take a UI frame or a brand brief and turn it into a story that lands.
• You ask the right questions, understand the product well enough to know what the animation needs to communicate, and don't wait for a fully baked storyboard to get started.
• You think in systems, building mogrts files, component libraries, and motion guidelines that others can use independently.
• You understand brand as well as UI: timing, easing, personality, the emotional register that makes motion feel ownable rather than generic.
• You have a strong sense of sound and rhythm, shaping the relationship between motion and sound intentionally.
• You understand narrative, thinking about motion the way a director thinks about a scene: setup, tension, resolution.
• You manage up with creative insight, proactively bringing your expertise into conversations.
• You use AI as a genuine part of your practice, experimenting with video tools and sharing insights with the team.
• You're energized by ambiguity, move fast, and don't wait for perfect conditions.

Company Description

Zapier is an equal-opportunity employer and we're excited to work with talented and empathetic people of all identities. Zapier does not discriminate based on someone's identity in any aspect of hiring or employment as required by law and in line with our commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity.