Motion Designer

Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.

We're in-person with cozy offices in North Beach, San Francisco and Manhattan, New York, replete with well-stocked libraries.

About the role

We’re looking for an exceptional motion designer to help evolve Cursor’s motion identity as we scale toward a universal platform for building software. As we grow, we’re building a brand studio focused on setting a high bar for creative excellence in a fast-moving company where brand and design play a meaningful role. This is a foundational role, with the opportunity to define Cursor’s motion language and establish systems that scale across marketing, product, and brand as the company grows.

What you’ll do

• Evolve Cursor’s motion identity and create scalable systems across product, marketing, and community

• Own motion work end-to-end — from narrative, storyboards and prototyping through final execution across product launches, campaigns, digital, film, content, and events

• Design for multiple audiences — from experienced developers to designers exploring code for the first time

• Develop and optimize motion workflows, including the integration of new tools to improve efficiency and scalability

• Collaborate with product designers to ensure motion consistency across the user experience

• Collaborate with external motion partners and provide clear creative feedback

• Ship fast, iterate constantly. Let the brand evolve as the product and company grow

You may be a fit if

• You have a portfolio demonstrating strong motion craft, typography, and strategic thinking across formats — from digital campaigns to motion systems and events

• You’ve built or evolved motion identities for technical products, developer-focused companies, or culturally defining brands

• You have experience creating engaging product launches and UI animation for software products

• You bring strong attention to pacing, composition, typography, and sound

• You have strong art direction skills, with the ability to set a clear creative bar and guide external creative partners

• You can articulate design decisions and rally teams around a creative vision

• You’re comfortable working in fast-paced, high-growth environments with ambiguity and complexity

• You’re ambitious, opinionated, and comfortable taking ownership to push work forward

• [Nice to have] Experience working at both fast-paced startups and agencies

• [Nice to have] Background in 3D or illustration