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.