PLEASE NOTE: This is a temporary contractor assignment managed by Magnit

Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward.

Motion design falls under product design:

• Design products—systematically, interactively, visually—with pixel-level precision
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product management, and research to develop impactful, user-centric, and data-informed solutions
• Collaborate with and manage feedback from stakeholders across the company Work alongside engineers throughout the implementation and quality assurance phases
• Uphold and inspire a high level of design execution and diverse creative explorations across the team
• Make selfless design decisions for the betterment of Pinterest

Specific to motion design:

• Design motion behaviors and interaction transitions that clarify hierarchy, state changes, system feedback, and overall product usability
• Create high-quality motion studies, prototypes, and production-ready specs to communicate timing, easing, choreography, and interaction intent to cross-functional partners
• Partner closely with engineering to ensure motion is implemented with craft, performance, and fidelity, and that interactions feel polished across platforms and devices
• Define and evolve motion principles, patterns, and guidelines that scale within the product design system
• Use motion strategically to enhance comprehension, delight, and continuity, while maintaining accessibility and avoiding unnecessary distraction
• Contribute to end-to-end product experiences through animation and interaction design, including onboarding, feedback states, transitions, empty states, and moments of delight
• Advocate for motion as a functional part of the user experience, not just a visual layer, grounding decisions in user needs, product goals, and platform constraints
• Refine motion details through iteration and QA, ensuring animation quality, consistency, and performance in the shipped produc

Motion design falls under product design:
 

• Proven track record envisioning, building, and iterating on digital products in close partnership with product management and engineering
• Strong portfolio that demonstrates outstanding design skills (refined aesthetic sensibilities and high quality craft are a must, prototyping is a plus) and product thinking informed by qualitative and quantitative insights
• Great communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate your design decisions and the problems they’re solving
• Attention to detail and a sense of pride and ownership over the quality of the product
• Solid understanding of layout, typography, color, and other graphic design principles
• Ability to work within and extend a design system. Experience working in design systems and/or product redesigns is a plus
• Team player with strong collaboration skills and ability bring cross-functional partners along in the journey
• High level of self-awareness with a growth mindset

Specific to motion design:

• Strong motion design craft, with demonstrated expertise in timing, easing, choreography, spatial relationships, and animation principles for digital products
• Portfolio showing motion as part of product UX, including interaction design, transitions, feedback states, and prototypes that improve usability and experience quality
• Ability to prototype motion and interaction concepts in tools such as After Effects, Figma, Principle, ProtoPie, Rive, or similar workflows
• Experience translating motion concepts into implementable specifications and partnering with engineers to bring them to life with high fidelity
• Understanding of motion systems and scalable interaction patterns, with the ability to create reusable guidance for product teams
• Sensitivity to performance, accessibility, and platform conventions when designing animation for real product environments
• Strong systems thinking, with the ability to use motion consistently across flows, states, and surfaces rather than treating it as one-off animation Ability to balance expression and restraint, knowing when motion should delight, when it should guide, and when it should stay out of the way

Benefits Offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K

Magnit Global (the operator of this Talent Community) is a global leader of contingent talent services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.