Motion Designer, PPM SMB .

Design Better Podcast; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 82,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Motion Designer focused on SMBs to join our Paid Performance Marketing team. You’ll shape motion-first campaigns, collaborating with designers and writers to turn insights into high-performing creative while using animation and editing to tell compelling stories for SMB audiences.

With 3+ years in motion for performance marketing, you’ll leverage Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, explore AI tools thoughtfully, and communicate clearly with both creative and non-creative

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of motion work for performance marketing, digital advertising, or social content.
• Portfolio shows motion across social/digital with strong storytelling and pacing.
• Attention to detail in layout, typography, color, and movement.
• Experience designing and animating for product-focused and brand-building campaigns.
• Comfort working quickly across multiple projects with testing and learning.

Responsibilities

• Develop motion assets for SMB audiences across social and digital channels.
• Collaborate with designers, writers, producers, and growth partners to move ideas from brief to final delivery.
• Iterate based on data, creative insights, and channel best practices.
• Experiment with AI-adjacent tools to accelerate exploration while maintaining high craft.

Skills

Motion design

Video editing

Storytelling

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Communication

Tools

After Effects

Premiere Pro

Job description

About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.

Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.

As a Motion Designer focused on small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) on Pinterest’s Paid Performance Marketing team, you’ll help shape how Pinterest connects with SMB audiences across social and digital advertising. You’ll collaborate with world class designers and writers to concept, storyboard, and deliver motion-first campaigns for our Marketing team—using animation, editing, and visual storytelling to turn insights into effective, high-performing creative.

What you’ll do:

• Evolve Pinterest’s performance motion across social and digital touchpoints.
• Create globally resonant, high-impact motion assets that drive meaningful business outcomes for SMBs while staying true to the Pinterest brand.
• Iterate quickly and communicate ideas across various levels of fidelity—concept frames, animatics, rough cuts, with the ability to receive and give feedback constructively.
• Collaborate with designers, copywriters, producers, and growth partners to develop ideas from brief to final delivery, ensuring creative is on-brand, on-message, and optimized for performance.
• Use SMB performance data, creative insights, and channel best practices to continually refine motion approaches, timing, and narrative structure.
• Explore and responsibly integrate AI and emerging tools to speed up exploration, pre-viz, and variation while keeping a high bar for craft.

What we’re looking for:

• Minimum 3 years of experience creating motion/ video for performance marketing, digital advertising, or social content.
• A portfolio that showcases outstanding motion work across social and digital channels—demonstrating strong storytelling, pacing, and a clear understanding of platform constraints.
• Exceptional attention to detail across layout, typography, color, and movement in motion.
• Experience designing and animating for both product-focused and brand-building campaigns.
• Comfort working quickly and efficiently across multiple projects at once, with a bias toward testing and learning.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; you can clearly articulate your motion decisions to creative and non-creative stakeholders.
• Experience with B2B and/ or SMB audiences is great to have, but not required
• Master of motion design tools: you’re fluent with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, and modern AI toolsets.
• Experience with AI-adjacent motion tools (e.g., generative video, or similar) and an interest in using them thoughtfully to unlock new creative possibilities.

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.

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US based applicants only

$81,921—$168,660 USD

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.