Motion Designer

Figma · San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States · Customer Operations and Support · listed July 17, 2026

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Seniority
Not stated
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$105,000 – $183,000 USD
Requirements listed
5
Length
936 words

In the posting’s own words

We’re looking for a Motion Designer to join our Product Education team. They’ll use their knowledge of Figma, design, and pedagogy to teach our users to successfully adopt Figma into their toolkit..

What it asks for · 5

  • Experience animating educational content for SaaS products and features
  • Demonstrated ability to create clear, concise, approachable, and accessible content
  • Proven ability to identify the optimal way to teach complex concepts or features, with a willingness to abandon ideas that didn't work along the way
  • Track record of creative, collaborative brainstorming on new projects and ideas
  • Passion for democratizing design and development, making career paths and opportunities accessible to everyone

What the job covers

  • Manage end-to-end video production, from inception to delivery
  • Collaborate with Education Designers and Content Strategists to create concise and clear scripts, and record voice overs
  • Ideate new videos, record audio and video, create visual assets, animate, edit, write descriptions, and publish final videos to YouTube
  • Create eye-catching motion graphics explainers, animations, and transitions to enhance and augment screen recordings
  • Work with our Product and Engineering teams to understand how new and existing features work, and the problems they solve for our users
  • Collaborate with the Marketing, Brand, Community, and Growth teams to coordinate positioning of our content for new features
  • Identify key success metrics, perform lightweight analytics, and engage with our users in video comments

Tools and skills named

Product & design
  • Figma7×
Go to market
  • SaaS

Words the posting leans on

  • video7×
  • create6×
  • design6×
  • content5×
  • designers4×
  • features4×
  • ideas4×
  • product4×
  • way4×
  • accessible3×
  • collaborate3×
  • community3×
  • education3×
  • motion3×
  • record3×
  • users3×

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