Motion Designer, PPM SMB

Pinterest • San Francisco, CA

4d • Remote

About The Position

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 designers and writers to concept, storyboard, and deliver motion-first campaigns for the Marketing team, using animation, editing, and visual storytelling to turn insights into effective, high-performing creative.

The role supports Pinterest’s performance motion across social and digital touchpoints. You’ll create globally resonant, high-impact motion assets that drive business outcomes for SMBs while staying true to the Pinterest brand. You’ll work from brief through final delivery, iterate based on performance data and feedback, and explore AI and emerging tools to support creative development while maintaining a high standard of craft.

The role can be situated anywhere in the country. In-person office collaboration is required 1–2 times every six months. The position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience creating motion or video for performance marketing, digital advertising, or social content.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong motion work across social and digital channels, storytelling, pacing, and 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.
• Ability to work quickly and efficiently across multiple projects, with a bias toward testing and learning.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to articulate motion decisions to creative and non-creative stakeholders.
• Fluency with Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and modern AI toolsets.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with B2B and/or SMB audiences.
• Experience with AI-adjacent motion tools, such as generative video, and an interest in using them thoughtfully to unlock new creative possibilities.

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 different levels of fidelity, including concept frames, animatics, and rough cuts; 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 refine motion approaches, timing, and narrative structure.
• Explore and responsibly integrate AI and emerging tools to speed up exploration, pre-visualization, and creative variation while maintaining a high bar for craft.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed