Staff Motion Designer: AI‑Forward Motion Systems Lead

Content Creators; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Staff Motion Designer to define and evolve the motion design language, enabling clear, coherent experiences across surfaces and flagship features. This role blends motion craft leadership, systems thinking, and design technology expertise.

You will establish reusable principles and tokens, partner with product and engineering teams, and build tools that scale motion across Pinterest. A strong background in motion systems and collaboration is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of motion design and related disciplines.
• Staff/principal-level track record across teams.
• Deep command of motion principles, timing, choreography, easing.
• Experience evolving scalable motion systems and governance.
• Collaboration with engineers and product teams to implement motion.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Pinterest’s motion design language—principles, patterns, and tokens—so motion is coherent and reusable.
• Lead motion direction for flagship and AI-forward experiences, clarifying state and hierarchy.
• Partner with designers, engineers, PMs, researchers to align feature work with motion strategy.
• Turn high-craft explorations into scalable design system contributions and tooling.
• Prototype and validate motion ideas using tools, code, and AI-enabled approaches.
• Work with engineering to balance performance, accessibility, and maintainability.

Skills

Motion design

Systems thinking

Design systems

Prototyping tools

AI in design

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in design

Job description

Pinterest is seeking a Staff Motion Designer to define and evolve the motion design language, enabling clear, coherent experiences across surfaces and flagship features. This role blends motion craft leadership, systems thinking, and design technology expertise.

You will establish reusable principles and tokens, partner with product and engineering teams, and build tools that scale motion across Pinterest. A strong background in motion systems and collaboration is essential.