Motion Designer

San Francisco, United StatesOn-site

Responsibilities

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
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: •
Track record of creative, collaborative brainstorming on new projects and ideas

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.
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..
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.
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
Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.
Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual
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.
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
Figma’s compensation and
Annual Base Salary Range: $105,000 — $183,000 USD

If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com .

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all.
If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
Core to Figma’s success—and heart—is our community.
We care deeply about empowering our community, particularly through a time of rapid change in the industry, and one of the ways we can do that is through education.
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.
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.
Work with our Product and Engineering teams to understand how new and existing features work, and the problems they solve for our users