Pinterest is hiring a Motion Designer to join its Paid Performance Marketing team with a focus on small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). You'll help shape how Pinterest connects with SMB audiences across social and digital advertising, creating motion-first campaign assets with world-class designers and writers.
Overview
$81,921 – $168,660 / year
remote
full-time
2-4 years of experience (mid level)
Technologies
- FigmaAdobe Creative SuiteAI toolsgenerative video
Responsibilities
- Evolve Pinterest's performance motion across social and digital touchpoints.
- Create globally resonant, high-impact motion assets that drive meaningful business outcomes for SMBs while staying true to the Pinterest brand.
- Iterate quickly and communicate ideas across concept frames, animatics, and rough cuts.
- Collaborate with designers, copywriters, producers, and growth partners from brief to final delivery.
- Use SMB performance data, creative insights, and channel best practices to refine motion approaches, timing, and narrative structure.
- Explore and responsibly integrate AI and emerging tools to speed up exploration, pre-viz, and variation while keeping a high bar for craft.
Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years of experience creating motion/video for performance marketing, digital advertising, or social content.
- Portfolio showcasing outstanding motion work across social and digital channels, with strong storytelling, pacing, and platform understanding.
- Exceptional attention to detail across layout, typography, color, and movement.
- Experience designing and animating for both product-focused and brand-building campaigns.
- Comfort working quickly across multiple projects with a bias toward testing and learning.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills; able to articulate motion decisions to creative and non-creative stakeholders.
- Experience with B2B and/or SMB audiences is a plus, but not required.
- Fluency with Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and modern AI toolsets.
- Experience with AI-adjacent motion tools (e.g., generative video) and interest in using them thoughtfully.
Benefits
- Equity eligible