Motion Designer — SMB Performance Campaigns

Pinterest, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 82,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest, Inc. is seeking a Motion Designer focused on small and medium-sized businesses for our Paid Performance Marketing team.

You will conceptualize, storyboard, and deliver motion-first campaigns for SMBs, collaborating with world-class designers and writers to turn insights into high-performing creative. In-office collaboration is expected 1–2 times every 6 months, with the role open to candidates nationwide in the United States.

Qualifications

• 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 with strong storytelling and pacing.
• Attention to detail across layout, typography, color, and movement in motion.
• Experience designing and animating for product-focused and brand-building campaigns.
• Ability to work quickly across multiple projects with a bias toward testing and learning.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; ability to articulate motion decisions to creative and non-creative stakeholders.
• Experience with B2B and/or SMB audiences is a plus but not required.
• Fluent with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite; familiarity with modern AI toolsets.

Responsibilities

• Evolve Pinterest’s motion across social and digital touchpoints.
• Create globally resonant, high-impact motion assets for SMBs that align with the Pinterest brand.
• Iterate quickly and communicate ideas across fidelity levels from concept frames to rough cuts.
• Collaborate with designers, copywriters, producers, and growth partners to develop ideas from brief to final delivery.
• Use SMB performance data and insights to refine motion approaches, timing, and narrative structure.
• Explore and responsibly integrate AI and emerging tools to speed up exploration and variation while maintaining craft.

Skills

Motion design

Performance marketing

Storytelling

Figma

Adobe CC

AI tools

Collaboration

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Pinterest, Inc. is seeking a Motion Designer focused on small and medium-sized businesses for our Paid Performance Marketing team.

You will conceptualize, storyboard, and deliver motion-first campaigns for SMBs, collaborating with world-class designers and writers to turn insights into high-performing creative. In-office collaboration is expected 1–2 times every 6 months, with the role open to candidates nationwide in the United States.