Motion Designer

Figma•San Francisco, CA

4h•$105,000 - $183,000•Remote

About The Position

Figma is growing its 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 they'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. The Product Education team is looking for a Motion Designer to use their knowledge of Figma, design, and pedagogy to teach users to successfully adopt Figma into their toolkit. Day to day, this role will involve creating guided video tutorials for the YouTube Channel and collaborating with other departments on other types of video content. The Motion Designer will use their skills in motion and design to artfully explain complex topics in terms understandable by junior and prospective designers, empowering them to create.

Requirements

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

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
Work with Product and Engineering teams to understand how new and existing features work, and the problems they solve for users
Collaborate with Marketing, Brand, Community, and Growth teams to coordinate positioning of content for new features
Identify key success metrics, perform lightweight analytics, and engage with users in video comments