Motion Designer

Overview

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!

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.

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, create guided video tutorials for our You Tube Channel, and collaborate with other departments on other types of video content.
• Use skills in motion and design to artfully explain complex topics in terms understandable by junior and prospective designers, empowering them to create.
• 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 You Tube.
• 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 our users.
• Collaborate with 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.

• 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  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.

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 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.

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