Motion Designer

figma

San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States · San Francisco · NY • United States

Posted Jul 17, 2026

Full-time
Customer Operations and Support

Job description

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, 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

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.

Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; parental leave and reproductive or family planning support; mental health and wellness benefits; and paid time off. Figma provides paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations. Exempt employees are eligible for employer‑provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave. PTO is subject to manager approval. Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending accounts. Figma also offers sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. All compensation and benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and may be modified by Figma at any time, consistent with applicable law.

Annual Base Salary Range:

$105,000—$183,000 USD

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 accommodations-ext@figma.com. 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

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.