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Senior Motion Designer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Nov 02, 2025 | |
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OverviewWe're looking for a Senior Motion Designer with a foundation in UX, product storytelling, and visual systems to join the Windows Direction team. This is a multidisciplinary role for a design generalist who brings motion fluency and editorial clarity to complex product narratives. You'll help shape motion-driven experiences that resonate with millions of users-crafting vibe-coded demos, prototypes, and videos that articulate the why, what, and how of new features. You'll collaborate across disciplines to surface value, clarify messaging, and amplify product experiences. You thrive in ambiguity, iterate quickly, and communicate with precision-distilling feedback into forward motion.You're curious about AI and its potential to improve workflows and enrich user lives. You stay tuned to the latest advancements, tools, and announcements-and you're proactive in learning from them. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesNarrative & Storytelling: You will bring a gift for translating complex product concepts into emotionally engaging motion and visual narrativeshelping partners and users understand the why and how of new features through clear, resonant storytelling.Collaboration & Product Fluency: You will stay close to product teams, pulling assets, crafting flows, and shaping stories that demonstrate usability and valuebringing clarity to what's being built and why it matters.Craft & Design Excellence: You bring deep experience in shaping great user experiencesand you advocate for design excellence and user-centered thinking. You're able to identify opportunities to elevate flow, emotional clarity, and product resonance through thoughtful improvements and intentional craft.User Insight Integration & Vision Alignment: You will work with UXR to make the user perspective part of the product development processensuring insights are digestible for product teams, inform feature vision, and are reflected in validation, readiness, and messaging.Motion Design & Editorial Clarity: You will create product tour videos and vibecoded prototypes that communicate what Windows is working onclarifying value and aligning internal storytelling with user experience.Brand Alignment & Visual Storytelling: You will support marketing teams by crafting flows, demos, and assets that align messaging with product intent and upcoming Windows updatesensuring coherence across touchpoints.Curiosity & Emerging Technology Fluency: You will bring curiosity and self-direction to exploring how AI can improve workflows and enrich user livesstaying tuned to new tools, announcements, and advancements, and learning from them. | |