Figma

Motion Designer

Figma$105K — $183K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience animating educational content for SaaS products.
  • Ability to create clear and accessible content.
  • Proven skills in teaching complex concepts simply.
  • Collaborative brainstorming experience on projects.
  • Passion for making design and development accessible.

Responsibilities

  • Manage video production from concept to delivery.
  • Collaborate with designers to create scripts and record voice-overs.
  • Ideate, record, animate, edit, and publish video tutorials.
  • Create motion graphics to enhance video content.
  • Work with product teams to understand features and their user benefits.
  • Coordinate content positioning with multiple departments.
  • Analyze engagement metrics and interact with users in comments.

Benefits

  • Health, dental & vision insurance.
  • Retirement plan with company contribution.
  • Parental leave and family planning support.
  • Mental health and wellness benefits.
  • Generous paid time off (PTO).
  • Company recharge days for work-life balance.
  • Learning and development stipend.
  • Work from home stipend and cell phone reimbursement.
Full Job Description
We9re looking for a Motion Designer to join our Product Education team. They9ll use their knowledge of Figma, design, and pedagogy to teach our users to successfully adopt Figma into their toolkit..

Day to day, you9ll create guided video tutorials for our YouTube Channel, as well as collaborate with other departments on other types of video content. You9ll 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. They9re 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 you9ll 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

We9d 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 didn9t 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 you9re excited about this role but your past experience doesn9t 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

If based in Figma9s 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. Figma9s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Annual Base Salary Range:

$105,000-$183,000 USD

About Figma

Figma is a cloud-based design and prototyping tool for digital projects. The company was founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace. Figma's software is used by designers and developers to create user interfaces, websites, and mobile applications. The company has offices in San Francisco and London.
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500 employees
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Founded
2012

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