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Sr. Motion Designer
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · EMEA
Experience
Senior · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
Motion Designer in Zapier's Brand Studio, creating motion across product explainers, website animations, paid social video, keynote/event motion and campaign assets, and building Zapier's motion design language and reusable systems.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA
What you'll do
- 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
What we're looking for
- Can take a UI frame or a 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 doesn't wait for a fully baked storyboard to get started
- Thinks in systems: builds mogrts files, component libraries, and motion guidelines that other people can use independently
- Understands brand as well as UI: timing, easing, personality, the emotional register that makes motion feel ownable rather than generic
- Strong sense of sound and rhythm; knows how motion and sound work together and shapes that relationship intentionally
- Understands narrative: thinks about motion the way a director thinks about a scene, knowing 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 their practice, experimenting with video tools and sharing what they figure out
- Energized by ambiguity, moves fast, and doesn't wait for perfect conditions
Your team
Brand Studio
The creative team behind how Zapier shows up in the world; a small, high-ownership team embedded in Marketing, working at the intersection of brand, product, and enterprise positioning.
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About Zapier
Key facts
- Builds and uses automation every day to make work more efficient, creative, and human
- Fast-growing, profitable, impact-driven company