What are the responsibilities and job description for the Motion Designer position at Cursor?
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.
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
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 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