# Staff Motion Designer, Design Innovation at Pinterest

- Company: Pinterest
- What the company does: Discover recipes, home ideas, style inspiration and other ideas to try. Backed by Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins and a16z.
- Company website: https://www.pinterest.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, CA, US
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://www.pinterestcareers.com/jobs/?gh_jid=7770898
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/pinterest-staff-motion-designer-design-innovation/

## About the role

Experience defining motion for AI, conversational, multimodal, or other emerging product experiences. By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of experience in motion design, product design, interaction design, or a closely related discipline, with a portfolio demonstrating exceptional motion craft in shipped digital products or platforms
- A staff/principal-level track record of influencing horizontally across teams, shaping a product or design-system direction, and raising quality without relying on formal authority
- Experience creating or materially evolving scalable motion systems, such as principles, token sets, pattern libraries, documentation, tooling, and governance that teams can adopt across products and platforms
- Demonstrated experience partnering closely with engineers to implement complex motion, practical fluency in performance, technical constraints, platform conventions, handoff, and quality assurance
- A design technologist mindset: comfortable using prototyping tools, AI, and code or technical workflows where useful to explore ideas, communicate intent, and improve how teams design and build
- Strong product and systems thinking: able to connect craft decisions to user needs, product strategy, accessibility, implementation efficiency, and measurable impact

Tags: Design