Cursor Senior Motion Designer at Cursor defines and documents the brand's motion language and produces motion design across campaigns and products. The role includes creating AI-assisted templates and directing creative teams.
Responsibilities
Motion system: Define and document the brand's motion language (timing, easing, transitions, logo animation, typography in motion, and graphic behaviors) so other teams can apply it correctly
Workflows & toolkits: Turn recurring motion work into repeatable, AI-assisted templates, tools, and generators that let marketing, product, and other teams produce on-brand motion without you in the room
Campaigns: Concept and produce motion end to end, from storyboards through final delivery, across launch films, product videos, social, paid, web, and out-of-home
Product motion: Partner with product designers and engineers to bring brand motion into product surfaces, from interactions and transitions to onboarding and launch moments
Creative direction: Direct agencies, animators, and freelancers with clear briefs and candid feedback so the output meets the bar you'd set yourself
Collaboration at speed: Partner with marketing, product, engineering, and leadership, present your thinking clearly to senior stakeholders, and move between projects quickly while keeping a high bar and improving the process
Qualification
A reel of shipped motion design workFluency in AI coding toolsSharp instincts for timingA systems mindsetSelf-directed
Required
Minimum of 6 years of motion design experience, in-house or at an agency or studio
Professional experience with After Effects and at least one 3D tool (Cinema 4D or Blender)
A reel of shipped motion design work
Preferred
Fluency in AI coding tools, especially Cursor. You can build your own tools, scripts, prototypes, and simple web pages instead of waiting on engineering
Hands-on experience with AI video and image generation tools as part of a real production workflow
A reel and portfolio that show both motion system work and shipped campaigns. Bonus if they include tools or workflows you built
Sharp instincts for timing, rhythm, typography in motion, and storytelling, from concept and storyboard through execution
A systems mindset: you naturally turn one-off tasks into reusable processes and think about how creative work scales
Conviction in your design decisions and the ability to explain why they matter, to designers, marketers, and leadership alike
Fluency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud
Self-directed, fast, and energized by variety and ambiguity
