Senior Motion Designer, Gusto
Brand Studio
$146-183k
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
Open for applications
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$146-183k
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To grow the small business economy.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re energized by being close to the work, care deeply about taste, and enjoy improving both the output and the process, this role will be a top-notch fit
- 8+ years of experience editing and designing motion for brand, film, agency, or content studios
- Expert-level fluency in editing and motion tools, with curiosity and judgment around emerging AI-enabled methods
- A portfolio that demonstrates robust storytelling, mindful motion design, and range across formats
- Sharp instincts for sound design, pacing, color, and transitions
- Comfort shifting between polished, narrative-driven work and fast, social-first content
- Proficient collaboration skills across creative, production, and marketing partners
- A maker mindset—you enjoy improving how work gets made, not just making the work itself
What the job involves
- Gusto is expanding our in-house creative studio inside our fast-moving, late-stage startup
- We make cinematic brand films, product stories, and customer-driven narratives—and we also partner closely with our social team to bring those stories to life where our audience spends time
- It’s common to shift between a polished long-form piece and fast-turn social work in the same week
- We’re looking for a Staff Motion Designer who is a hands-on maker: someone who loves editing and motion design, takes real ownership of the final product, and wants to help shape how video and motion show up across our brand
- This is a senior individual contributor role, focused on post-production craft and storytelling
- In this role, you’ll own the motion and edit from rough cut through final delivery
- You’ll make judgment calls about pacing, sound, animation, and color
- You’ll collaborate closely with other creatives and cross-functional partners on our marketing team to produce great work that defines our brand and that has an impact
- And you’ll help us raise the bar while also making the work easier to scale—through better workflows, smarter templates, and mindful use of modern tools
- Edit brand films, product stories, interviews, explainers, and social-first content
- Design motion graphics, typography, transitions, and animation that serve the story—not the other way around
- Shape expressive arcs through pacing, sound design, and color
- Partner closely with other creatives and cross-functional partners from our marketing, comms and social teams from rough cut through final delivery
- Build repeatable templates and workflows that enable faster turnaround without sacrificing quality
- Use modern editing and motion tools—including AI-enabled workflows—to explore, iterate, and produce more proficiently
- Keep post-production organized and deliver final assets that meet creative and technical standards
Our take
For many small businesses, vital administrative tasks such as payroll, taxes, and benefits are manual tasks that take time and energy which many SMB owners don’t have. The three co-founders of Gusto – all coming from small business backgrounds – collaborated on a Fintech company that would handle employee payments, benefits administration, and compliance support specifically for small businesses.
The company may have started slowly, as the founders focused on nailing each individual aspect of Gusto’s operations, but has now skyrocketed to unicorn status with more than 400,000 customers and a multi-billion dollar valuation. And in 2021, Gusto began acquiring other companies to strengthen its offering and its position in a competitive market, including two other fintech startups, Ardius and Symmetry.
Through its continued acquisitions and fundraising efforts, the company has carved out a strong position for itself in the space. Although Gusto has found itself impacted by the macroeconomic situation, through the significant effect it has had on its clientele, the company still appears positive for the future after raising funds in 2023 that has seen it reach key profitability benchmarks. It continues to expand its platform, most recently partnering with Parafin to launch a payroll line of credit for small businesses. With a growing suite of services and a clear focus on supporting small businesses through changing economic conditions, Gusto looks set to sustain its momentum and further strengthen its position in the HR and payroll technology market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
45% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
May 2022
$55m
SERIES E
Aug 2021
$175m
SERIES E
Total funding: $706.3m
Company benefits
- Health and Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents. Family care and support, including family planning and fertility benefits. Gender-affirming care and support. A variety of mental health resources.
- Time Away: It's important to take time away for yourself or to take care of your family. Gusto offers paid vacation, sick time, bereavement, and holidays, paid leaves, sabbatical, and more!
- Free meals and refreshments: If you work at one of our offices, enjoy food, drinks, and snacks— on us. Conversation and community is an added bonus!
- Perks:
Company HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Joshua Reeves
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford and went onto co-found Gusto in 2011.
Tomer London
(Co-Founder & CPO)Has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. Was a Researcher at Intel, and then interned at Bump Technologies. Co-founded Vizmo, a mobile self-service technologies company, in 2008. Co-founded Gusto in 2011.
Edward Kim
(Co-Founder & Head of Engineering)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Was Senior Project Engineer at Volkswagen of America Electronics Research Lab and then co-founded Picwing, a printed photos company, in 2008. Co-founded Gusto in 2011.
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