Sr. Motion Designer
Zapier · Design · Senior · 1mo ago
Open to candidates across EMEA.
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Open to candidates across EMEA.
“Location: EMEA”
The role is based remotely in the EMEA region.
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- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- No company-paid get-togethers mentioned.
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About the role
As a Motion Designer within the Brand Studio team embedded in Marketing, you will work at the intersection of brand, product, and enterprise positioning. You will collaborate with brand designers, product marketing, product design, and external partners to establish how Zapier moves across every surface. A key part of the role is creating repeatable guidelines, component libraries, and templates that empower the broader organization to ship on-brand motion assets independently.
What you'll do
- Design and produce motion across product explainers, website animations, paid social video snippets, keynote assets, and campaign materials
- Work directly from UI frames provided by product teams to build polished product demo animations and feature explainers
- Build Zapier's motion design language, establishing ownable branded motion patterns across every surface
- Create motion guidelines, component libraries, and mogrts files for repeatable building blocks
- Explore tooling like Jitter and Figma Motion to enable internal partners to produce on-brand animated assets independently
- Produce and iterate on short video snippets for paid social testing across various formats and angles
What you bring
- Ability to take UI frames or brand briefs and independently turn them into compelling narratives and polished animations
- Systems-oriented approach to motion, including experience building component libraries, guidelines, and mogrts files
- Deep understanding of timing, easing, narrative pacing, and sound design in motion work
- Comfort using AI video tools as an active part of your creative workflow
- Experience managing up with creative insight and articulating design decisions to cross-functional stakeholders
About Zapier
Zapier is a leading workflow automation platform that helps individuals and businesses connect web applications and streamline their everyday work.
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