At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- EMEA
About the role
- 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.
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 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
Requirements
- You can take a UI frame or a brand brief and turn it into a story that lands
- You think in systems, building mogrts files, component libraries, and motion guidelines that other people can use independently
- You understand brand as well as UI, including timing, easing, personality, and the emotional register
- You have a strong sense of sound and rhythm and know how motion and sound work together
- You understand narrative and think about motion the way a director thinks about a scene
- You manage up with creative insight, bringing your expertise into conversations proactively
- You use AI as a genuine part of your practice, experimenting with video tools and sharing what you figure out
- You're energized by ambiguity, move fast, and don't wait for perfect conditions
Workplace
- Role is located in EMEA
- Zapier is an all-remote company
Skills
- Jitter
- Figma Motion
