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Zapier is seeking a Senior Motion Designer to join Brand Studio, the creative team responsible for how Zapier presents itself across all channels. Brand Studio is a small, high-ownership team embedded in Marketing, working at the intersection of brand, product, and enterprise positioning.
In this role, you will design and produce motion across product explainers, website animations, paid social video snippets, keynote and event motion, and campaign assets. You'll work closely with brand designers and design ops, collaborate cross-functionally with PMM, Product Design, Web, and Social teams, and partner with external agencies on larger productions. A key part of your responsibility is building systems and tooling that enable the broader organization to ship motion work independently.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and produce motion across multiple formats: product explainers, website animations, paid social videos, keynote/event motion, and campaign assets
- Draft storyboards for straightforward projects to move fast without extended brief-to-board cycles
- Build polished product demo animations and feature explainers directly from UI frames
- Establish Zapier's motion design language with ownable branded motion patterns
- Create motion guidelines, component libraries, and mogrts files for partners and social teams to use independently
- Explore tools like Jitter and Figma Motion to enable on-brand asset generation without Brand Studio involvement
- Produce short video snippets for paid social testing across multiple angles and formats
- Support and scale recurring product video formats for future launches
You should be able to take a UI frame or brand brief and turn it into a compelling story. You think in systems, building reusable components and guidelines that make future projects ship faster. You understand brand as well as UI—timing, easing, personality, and emotional register. You have a strong sense of sound and rhythm, understanding how motion and audio work together intentionally. You think narratively about motion like a director thinks about a scene: setup, tension, resolution. You manage up with creative insight, bringing expertise proactively so stakeholders understand the reasoning behind creative choices. You use AI as a genuine part of your practice and share learnings with the team. You're energized by ambiguity, move fast, and don't wait for perfect conditions.
Zapier is an all-remote, profitable, fast-growing company. The company welcomes diverse perspectives and does not require formal education for this role, though educational background will be verified if an offer is extended. Zapier is committed to inclusion and will provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
