Staff Motion Designer, Design Innovation

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Pinterest is looking for a thoughtful highly skilled Staff Motion Designer to join the Design Innovation team. You will define and evolve the motion design language that brings clarity coherence and delight to Pinterest across surfaces and flagship features. This is a hands-on horizontal role for a rare blend of motion craft leader systems thinker and design technologist. You will establish reusable motion principles patterns tokens and implementation guidance within the design system; partner directly with product and engineering teams to solve challenging interaction problems; and build tools and prototypes that make it easier to explore and ship exceptional motion at scale. Your impact will extend from the details of a single interaction to the cohesive experience of Pinterest as a whole.

Join us to define the motion language that makes Pinterests next generation of products feel clear capable and unmistakably Pinterestraising the bar for craft trust and coherence for millions of Pinners.

• Define and evolve Pinterests motion design language principles interaction and transition patterns timing and tokens specifications and guidance so motion is intentional coherent accessible and reusable across the product ecosystem.
• Lead motion direction for flagship and AI-forward experiences using motion to clarify state cause and effect hierarchy feedback progress and system responsiveness.
• Partner horizontally with product designers engineers product managers researchers and content designers to connect individual feature work to a shared motion strategy and raise the quality of shipped experiences.
• Turn high-craft explorations into scalable design system contributions that reduce ad hoc implementation improve consistency and enable teams to move faster with confidence.
• Rapidly prototype and validate motion ideas using the right medium motion studies design tools code AI-enabled tools or custom prototypes to create shared understanding and accelerate decisions.
• Work closely with engineering throughout implementation to solve technically ambitious animation challenges while balancing performance platform conventions accessibility and maintainability.
• Develop or enable lightweight tools templates and workflows that help designers explore visual and motion ideas quickly and help engineering teams build sophisticated animations reliably.
• Stay at the leading edge of AI-enabled motion and visual-creation tools applying them strategically to improve ideation prototyping and production while maintaining critical thinking quality validation and ownership of final outcomes.
• Conduct motion quality reviews give actionable feedback on designs and implementations and mentor designers in motion principles systems thinking prototype craft and productive engineering partnership.
• Clearly articulate the rationale tradeoffs and user impact behind motion decisions to teams leaders and executives; build alignment around a high bar for motion craft and system quality.

• 8 years of experience in motion design product design interaction design or a closely related discipline with a portfolio demonstrating exceptional motion craft in shipped digital products or platforms.
• A staff/principal-level track record of influencing horizontally across teams shaping a product or design-system direction and raising quality without relying on formal authority.
• Deep command of motion and interaction design principles including timing choreography easing spring behavior feedback and transitions and strong judgment about when motion improves usability comprehension emotion and trust.
• Experience creating or materially evolving scalable motion systems such as principles token sets pattern libraries documentation tooling and governance that teams can adopt across products and platforms.
• Demonstrated experience partnering closely with engineers to implement complex motion; practical fluency in performance technical constraints platform conventions handoff and quality assurance.
• A design technologist mindset: comfortable using prototyping tools AI and code or technical workflows where useful to explore ideas communicate intent and improve how teams design and build.
• Strong product and systems thinking: able to connect craft decisions to user needs product strategy accessibility implementation efficiency and measurable impact.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills with the ability to synthesize ambiguity create clear documentation facilitate constructive critique and align diverse cross-functional partners.
• A collaborative low-ego working style with a passion for learning experimentation mentoring and inclusive design. You consider reduced-motion preferences cognitive load and diverse user needs from the beginning of the design process.
• Bachelors degree in design animation human-computer interaction a related field or equivalent experience.
• Bonus Points For:
  • Experience defining motion for AI conversational multimodal or other emerging product experiences.
  • Experience contributing to platform-wide design systems public motion systems or open-source animation libraries.
  • Experience building designer-facing or engineer-facing tools that improve motion prototyping handoff or implementation quality.
  • Experience in large-scale consumer products personalization or rapid experimentation environments.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

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