Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Gusto’s in house Brand Studio role stands out in a late stage SaaS environment where video increasingly carries product narrative, customer proof, and brand trust. The listing signals a studio that sits close to marketing and social distribution, which is typical of mature SaaS teams that need consistent storytelling across long form launches and always on channels, not one off campaign work.
For a SaaS career path, the value is in learning how post production craft translates into business clarity. Owning edits and motion from rough cut to delivery builds judgment around message discipline, iteration cycles, and channel specific constraints that recur across SaaS companies. The emphasis on scalable workflows and templates also maps to how internal creative functions evolve as SaaS organizations broaden their product lines and content volume.
This role best fits a senior maker who prefers hands on ownership over pure direction, and who enjoys balancing narrative polish with pragmatic turnaround. It suits someone comfortable collaborating with cross functional partners while retaining strong editorial instincts, and who wants their craft to influence how a SaaS brand shows up across multiple formats and touchpoints.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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.
Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day
- 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
Here’s what we’re looking for
- 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
Compensation Details
At Gusto, we strive to provide rewards that empower employees to achieve their financial and personal goals. We offer competitive compensation packages with a strong emphasis on equity based compensation (ownership in Gusto). To learn more about Gusto’s compensation philosophy and benefits offerings please view our Total Rewards Approach page.
Our cash compensation range for this role is $146,000/yr to $183,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $177,000/yr to $222,000/yr in San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
