Senior Motion Designer — Remote Brand Studio

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

Job summary

Zapier is seeking a Motion Designer to craft branded motion across product explainers, website animations, and marketing assets. You will translate UI frames and brand briefs into compelling stories, building reusable motion systems for the team.

You’ll collaborate across PMM, Product Design, Web, and Social to ship motion that feels owns the Zapier brand. You’ll define motion language, develop mogrt libraries, and experiment with tools like Jitter and Figma Motion to deliver scalable, on-brand

Qualifications

• Translate a UI frame or brand brief into a compelling motion story.
• Build systematized motion patterns that teams can reuse.
• Balance brand and UI timing, personality, and rhythm in 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 fast moves without full briefs.
• Work from product UI frames to build polished product demo animations.
• Create motion language that is brand-owned across surfaces.
• Develop motion guidelines, component libraries, and mogrt files for repeatable assets.
• Explore tools like Jitter and Figma Motion for on-brand assets.
• Produce short video snippets for paid social testing.
• Support recurring product video formats into scalable templates.

Skills

Brand systems

Motion design

Storyboarding

Collaboration

AI tooling

Tools

Jitter

Figma Motion

Mogrt files

Job description

Zapier is seeking a Motion Designer to craft branded motion across product explainers, website animations, and marketing assets. You will translate UI frames and brand briefs into compelling stories, building reusable motion systems for the team.

You’ll collaborate across PMM, Product Design, Web, and Social to ship motion that feels owns the Zapier brand. You’ll define motion language, develop mogrt libraries, and experiment with tools like Jitter and Figma Motion to deliver scalable, on-brand