Motion Designer

Figma Posted July 18 / San Francisco / Full time / Hybrid Motion DesignerFigma Save Job To save jobs, sign up for Job Alerts Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! 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. Day to day, you'll create guided video tutorials for our YouTube Channel, as well as collaborate with other departments on other types of video content. You'll use your skills in motion and design to artfully explain complex topics in terms understandable by junior and prospective designers, empowering them to create. Our ideal candidate is a passionate educator and collaborator, who is driven by their curiosity to solve problems and learn something new. They're an effective communicator and sweat the details. They should feel comfortable communicating concepts to beginner-level designers and developers in a way that lifts them up and helps them grow. This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States. What You’ll Do At Figma 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 We'd Love To Hear From You If You Have 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 At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Pay Transparency Disclosure Annual Base Salary Range: $105,000 - $183,000 USD Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information. Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future. At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to View email address on click.appcast.io. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities. Examples Of Accommodations Include But Are Not Limited To Holding interviews in an accessible location Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers Changing the mode or format of interviews #J-18808-Ljbffr Stash Media Inc.