Senior Motion Designer — Remote Brand Motion Systems

Zim Directory; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Zapier is seeking a Motion Designer for Brand Studio to shape how the brand moves across products, websites, and campaigns. You will craft motion systems, define the motion language, and work with product, design ops, and external partners to deliver high-ownership motion assets.

You’ll collaborate with PMM, Product Design, Web, and Social, using tools like Jitter and Figma Motion, while staying fast-moving in a remote, global team.

Qualifications

• Ability to turn a UI frame or brand brief into a story that lands.
• Experience building motion systems and pattern libraries.
• Understanding brand with timing, easing, personality.

Responsibilities

• 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 explainers.
• Build Zapier’s motion design language: ownable branded motion patterns across surfaces.
• Create motion guidelines, component libraries, and mogrt files for reuse by partners and social teams.
• Explore tools like Jitter and Figma Motion to enable on-brand assets.
• Produce short video snippets for paid social testing across multiple angles and formats.
• Support scalable templates for future launches.

Skills

UI storytelling

Brand motion design

Motion systems

Collaboration

AI tooling in design

Sound and rhythm

Tools

Jitter

Figma Motion

Mogrt files

Job description

Zapier is seeking a Motion Designer for Brand Studio to shape how the brand moves across products, websites, and campaigns. You will craft motion systems, define the motion language, and work with product, design ops, and external partners to deliver high-ownership motion assets.

You’ll collaborate with PMM, Product Design, Web, and Social, using tools like Jitter and Figma Motion, while staying fast-moving in a remote, global team.