Motion Designer, Brand

Company: Notion
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 2, 2026

Job Description:

About Us: Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money. In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays. About the Role: This role sits within the Creative Studio, a small team of designers, illustrators, copywriters, and filmmakers serving creative needs across the company. As our Brand Motion Designer, you'll lead motion-led projects from concept through storyboarding to final production, and build the motion systems that make animation a consistent part of how our brand shows up. We're looking for someone who approaches motion as a communication tool and can take complex concepts and make them clear, concise, and memorable. What You'll Achieve: Lead motion work from concept through production — brand campaigns, product launches, social content, event visuals, and explainer films. Collaborate with our video team, designers, and cross-functional partners to develop video and film projects that advance the brand. Build and extend motion design systems: principles, behaviors, and templates that others can use and build on. Translate dense concepts into short, clear stories that a broad audience can understand and remember. Raise the bar for motion across the company. Review work, mentor teammates, and bring a strong point of view about how animation serves communication. Skills You'll Need to Bring: 6 years of motion design experience in an agency or in-house creative team, with a portfolio that shows range across brand, product, and narrative work. Deep fluency in After Effects and Figma. You've worked on UI and character animation, not just video. Strong pre-production craft: concepting, scripting, and storyboarding ideas into clear motion beats. Clear, proactive communication. You can present work to non-designers and bring people along with your creative rationale. Genuine curiosity about where the tools are going. You're exploring Rive, Jitter, Cavalry, or generative AI in order to expand what's possible. You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results. Nice to Haves: You have live action or illustration skills. You’ve built tools, templates, or workflows that enable non-motion-designers to work with animation confidently. We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you. Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know. Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco or New York City, the estimated base salary range for this role is $165,000 - $185,000 per year. By clicking “Submit Application”, I understand and agree that Notion and its affiliates and subsidiaries will collect and process my information in accordance with Notion’s Global Recruiting Privacy Policy and NYLL 144 . LI-Onsite

Keywords: Notion, San Francisco , Motion Designer, Brand, Design, Graphic Design & CAD , San Francisco, California