# Motion Designer, PPM SMB

**Company**: Pinterest
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $81,921-$168,660 USD
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Motion Designer focused on small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) on Pinterest's Paid Performance Marketing team, you'll help shape how Pinterest connects with SMB audiences across social and digital advertising.

You'll collaborate with world-class designers and writers to concept, storyboard, and deliver motion-first campaigns for our Marketing team,using animation, editing, and visual storytelling to turn insights into effective, high-performing creative.

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 various levels of fidelity,concept frames, animatics, rough cuts,with the ability to receive and give feedback constructively.

- Collaborate with designers, copywriters, producers, and growth partners to develop ideas from brief to final delivery, ensuring creative is on-brand, on-message, and optimized for performance.

- Use SMB performance data, creative insights, and channel best practices to continually 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.

Requirements:

- Minimum 3 years of experience creating motion/video for performance marketing, digital advertising, or social content.

- A portfolio that showcases outstanding motion work across social and digital channels,demonstrating strong storytelling, pacing, and a clear understanding of platform constraints.

- Exceptional attention to detail across layout, typography, color, and movement in motion.

- Experience designing and animating for both product-focused and brand-building campaigns.

- Comfort working quickly and efficiently across multiple projects at once, with a bias toward testing and learning.

- Strong collaboration and communication skills; you can clearly articulate your motion decisions to creative and non-creative stakeholders.

- Experience with B2B and/or SMB audiences is great to have, but not required.

- Master of motion design tools: you're fluent with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, and modern AI toolsets.

- Experience with AI-adjacent motion tools (e.g., generative video, or similar) and an interest in using them thoughtfully to unlock new creative possibilities.

Benefits:

- Base salary range: $81,921-$168,660 USD

- Eligible for equity

In-office requirement: This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months.

## Skills

### Required
- motion design
- video creation
- performance marketing
- digital advertising
- social content
- animation
- editing
- visual storytelling
- Figma
- Adobe Creative Suite
- AI toolsets

### Nice to have
- B2B
- SMB
- generative video
- AI-adjacent motion tools

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