Staff Motion Designer, Design Innovation

Pinterest · San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, CA, USRemote

In short

▸Diseñador de movimiento de alto nivel que define la identidad visual dinámica de Pinterest.
▸Trabaja en equipo con producto, ingeniería y diseño para crear animaciones escalables, accesibles y coherentes.
▸Destaca por integrar inteligencia artificial en el proceso creativo y técnico del diseño de movimiento.

Fluency in English is required for collaboration across global teams.

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia sólida en diseño de movimiento para productos digitales a escala.
✓Capacidad para definir principios, patrones y tokens reutilizables en un sistema de diseño.
✓Conocimiento avanzado de interacciones, transiciones y timing para experiencia de usuario.
✓Habilidad para colaborar con ingenieros y product managers en la implementación técnica.
✓Experiencia en prototipado rápido con herramientas visuales, código o IA.
✓Enfoque en accesibilidad, rendimiento y coherencia en animaciones a gran escala.

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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 . Pinterest is looking for a thoughtful, highly skilled Staff Motion Designer to join the Design Innovation team. You will define and evolve the motion design language that brings clarity, coherence, and delight to Pinterest across surfaces and flagship features. This is a hands-on, horizontal role for a rare blend of motion craft leader, systems thinker, and design technologist. You will establish reusable motion principles, patterns, tokens, and implementation guidance within the design system; partner directly with product and engineering teams to solve challenging interaction problems; and build tools and prototypes that make it easier to explore and ship exceptional motion at scale. Your impact will extend from the details of a single interaction to the cohesive experience of Pinterest as a whole. Join us to define the motion language that makes Pinterest’s next generation of products feel clear, capable, and unmistakably Pinterest—raising the bar for craft, trust, and coherence for millions of Pinners. What you’ll do: • Define and evolve Pinterest’s motion design language – principles, interaction and transition patterns, timing and tokens, specifications, and guidance – so motion is intentional, coherent, accessible, and reusable across the product ecosystem. • Lead motion direction for flagship and AI-forward experiences, using motion to clarify state, cause and effect, hierarchy, feedback, progress, and system responsiveness. • Partner horizontally with product designers, engineers, product managers, researchers, and content designers to connect individual feature work to a shared motion strategy and raise the quality of shipped experiences. • Turn high-craft explorations into scalable design system contributions that reduce ad hoc implementation, improve consistency, and enable teams to move faster with confidence. • Rapidly prototype and validate motion ideas using the right medium – motion studies, design tools, code, AI-enabled tools, or custom prototypes – to create shared understanding and accelerate decisions. • Work closely with engineering throughout implementation to solve technically ambitious animation challenges while balancing performance, platform conventions, accessibility, and maintainability. • Develop or enable lightweight tools, templates, and workflows that help designers explore visual and motion ideas quickly and help engineering teams build sophisticated animations reliably. • Stay at the leading edge of AI-enabled motion and visual-creation tools, applyi

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