Sr. Motion Designer

AI at Zapier

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Job Posted: October 2026

Location: EMEA 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.

In this role you'll work closely with a team of brand designers and design ops, collaborate cross-functionally with PMM, Product Design, Web, and Social, and partner with external agencies on bigger productions. You'll help define how Zapier moves across every surface, and build the systems and tooling that let the whole org ship motion work independently without Brand Studio in the room every time.If you want to advance your career at a fast-growing, profitable, impact-driven company, read on…

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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