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.
About You
- 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. You build mogrts files, component libraries, and motion guidelines that other people can use independently, and every project is an opportunity to make the next one ship faster
- 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. You know how motion and sound work together, and you shape that relationship intentionally rather than as an afterthought
- You understand narrative. You think about motion the way a director thinks about a scene: setup, tension, resolution. You know when to breathe and when to accelerate, and you can articulate that thinking to stakeholders
- You manage up with creative insight, bringing your expertise into conversations proactively so stakeholders understand the why behind every creative choice
- You use AI as a genuine part of your practice, experimenting with video tools and sharing what you figure out so the whole team benefits
- You're energized by ambiguity, move fast, and don't wait for perfect conditions
Things 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 launch.
