Senior Editor & Motion Designer, Brand Studio

Onsite in Denver, CO, this Senior Editor & Motion Designer role in Gusto's Brand Studio focuses on end-to-end post-production, pacing, sound, color, and motion design across brand films, product stories, and social content, with an emphasis on scalable workflows and templates.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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 well-developed storytelling, mindful motion design, and range across formats
• Sharp instincts for sound design, pacing, color, and transitions
• Comfort transitioning between polished, narrative-driven work and fast, social-first content
• Robust collaboration skills across creative, production, and marketing partners
• A maker mindset—you enjoy improving how work gets made, not just making the work itself

Technologies

• AI-enabled workflows

Benefits

• competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs)
• equity based compensation (ownership in Gusto)

About the Opportunity

Editing and motion are where our stories truly take shape. Pacing, sound, motion, and color aren’t finishing touches—they’re the work. They’re how we earn trust, convey clarity, and make people feel something.

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 Editor & 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.

If you’re energized by being close to the work, care deeply about preference, and enjoy improving both the output and the process, this role will be a exemplary fit.

Compensation Details

• Cash compensation ranges: $146,000 to $183,000 per year in Denver and most remote locations; $177,000 to $222,000 per year in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York
• Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above
• Equity-based compensation (ownership in Gusto) is part of the overall package