Sr. Motion Designer - Zapier

About the Role

Zapier is looking for a Senior 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.

In this role, you'll work closely with a team of brand designers and design ops, collaborate cross-functionally with Product Marketing (PMM), Product Design, Web, and Social, and partner with external agencies on larger productions. You will help define how Zapier moves across every surface and build the systems and tooling that let the entire organization ship motion work independently.

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 to enable rapid execution 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 .mogrt 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 requiring Brand Studio involvement every time.
• Produce short video snippets for paid social testing across multiple angles and formats.
• Support recurring product video formats and transform them into scalable templates for future launches.

About You

• Storytelling from UI: You can take a UI frame or a brand brief and turn it into a compelling story. You ask the right questions, understand the product deeply, and don't wait for a fully baked storyboard to get started.
• Systems Thinking: You build .mogrt files, component libraries, and motion guidelines that other teams can use independently, treating every project as an opportunity to make the next one ship faster.
• Brand & UI Craft: You understand timing, easing, personality, and the emotional register that makes motion feel ownable rather than generic.
• Sound & Rhythm: You have a strong sense of how motion and sound integrate, shaping that relationship intentionally rather than as an afterthought.
• Narrative Structure: You approach motion like a director approaching a scene (setup, tension, resolution), knowing when to pause and when to accelerate, and can articulate that thinking clearly to stakeholders.
• Proactive Communication: You manage up with creative insight, proactively bringing your expertise into conversations so stakeholders understand the rationale behind creative choices.
• AI Fluency: You leverage AI as a genuine part of your creative practice, experimenting with emerging video tools and sharing insights with the broader team.
• Autonomous & Adaptable: You thrive in ambiguous environments, move fast, and don't wait for perfect conditions to deliver high-quality work.

AI at Zapier

At Zapier, we build and use automation every day to make work more efficient, creative, and human. Using AI tools during your application process is welcome, provided they are used responsibly and transparently.

How to Apply

Zapier has a non-standard application process designed to promote inclusion and equity. Education credentials and resumes are secondary to your answers to our application questions, which allow us to evaluate your skillset and perspective directly.