Staff Motion Designer, Design Innovation

The role

You will define and evolve the motion design language for Pinterest across surfaces and flagship features. You will establish reusable motion principles and patterns, partner with product and engineering teams, and build tools and prototypes to scale motion.

What you will do

• Define and evolve Pinterest's motion design language including principles, patterns, and tokens
• Lead motion direction for flagship and AI-forward experiences
• Partner with product designers, engineers, product managers, researchers, and content designers
• Turn high-craft explorations into scalable design system contributions
• Rapidly prototype and validate motion ideas using design tools, code, or AI-enabled tools
• Work with engineering to solve technical animation challenges
• Develop lightweight tools, templates, and workflows for designers and engineers
• Stay at the leading edge of AI-enabled motion and visual-creation tools
• Conduct motion quality reviews and mentor designers
• Articulate the rationale and user impact behind motion decisions to leaders and executives

Required qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience in motion design, product design, interaction design, or a closely related discipline
• Portfolio demonstrating exceptional motion craft in shipped digital products or platforms
• Staff/principal-level track record of influencing horizontally across teams
• Deep command of motion and interaction design principles
• Experience creating or materially evolving scalable motion systems
• Experience partnering closely with engineers to implement complex motion
• Design technologist mindset using prototyping tools, AI, and code
• Strong product and systems thinking
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills
• Collaborative, low-ego working style
• Bachelor's degree in design, animation, human-computer interaction, a related field, or equivalent experience

Nice to have

• 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
• Experience in large-scale consumer products, personalization, or rapid experimentation environments

About the company

Pinterest is a platform where millions of people find creative ideas and plan for memories. The company is on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.