Senior Art Director — Illustration & Motion for Product

Expedia; New York (NY); On-site; USD 173,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness & travel reimbursement

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia is seeking a Senior Art Director, Illustration & Motion (Product) to own the craft layer across Expedia products. This on-site role shapes illustrations, icons, pictograms, and UI motion, collaborating with design systems, product design, and engineering to build scalable asset workflows, including AI-assisted production.

The candidate will lead iconography, visual language, and motion design, while establishing asset packaging, libraries, and documentation for cross-platform

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio showing illustration and motion in a product context
• Hands-on expertise with tools like Illustrator, Figma, After Effects, Rive
• AI fluency with examples of AI-assisted production while preserving craft and brand

Responsibilities

• Create icons, pictograms, spot illustrations, and illustrated assets for iOS, Android, and web
• Maintain Expedia's visual language across platforms ensuring accessibility and scalability
• Design UI animations, micro-interactions, and animated illustrations to enhance clarity and delight
• Prepare assets and motion specs for engineers using Lottie, Rive, and native animation
• Review builds and provide feedback to ensure alignment with design intent
• Build scalable asset systems including structure, naming, tokens, and versioning
• Develop organized Figma libraries and components for team use
• Collaborate with design system and engineering on packaging, delivery, and implementation
• Create documentation and guidelines for asset adoption and deprecation
• Develop AI-assisted workflows to increase output without compromising quality
• Set quality, brand, and ethical standards when adopting new AI tools
• Automate repetitive production tasks and support handoff to code
• Provide art direction and critique to designers and freelancers
• Translate product and brand goals into clear creative direction
• Manage multiple projects from concept through delivery

Skills

Illustration

Motion design

UI animation

Asset systems

Figma

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design, Motion, HCI, User Experience

Tools

Illustrator

Figma

After Effects

Rive

Job description

Expedia is seeking a Senior Art Director, Illustration & Motion (Product) to own the craft layer across Expedia products. This on-site role shapes illustrations, icons, pictograms, and UI motion, collaborating with design systems, product design, and engineering to build scalable asset workflows, including AI-assisted production.

The candidate will lead iconography, visual language, and motion design, while establishing asset packaging, libraries, and documentation for cross-platform