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Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other's unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.
At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we're looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we'll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.
Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.
Pinterest is looking for a thoughtful, highly skilled Staff Motion Designer to join the Design Innovation team. You will define and evolve the motion design language that brings clarity, coherence, and delight to Pinterest across surfaces and flagship features. This is a hands-on, horizontal role for a rare blend of motion craft leader, systems thinker, and design technologist. You will establish reusable motion principles, patterns, tokens, and implementation guidance within the design system; partner directly with product and engineering teams to solve challenging interaction problems; and build tools and prototypes that make it easier to explore and ship exceptional motion at scale. Your impact will extend from the details of a single interaction to the cohesive experience of Pinterest as a whole.
Join us to define the motion language that makes Pinterest's next generation of products feel clear, capable, and unmistakably Pinterest—raising the bar for craft, trust, and coherence for millions of Pinners.
What you'll do:
- Define and evolve Pinterest's motion design language – principles, interaction and transition patterns, timing and tokens, specifications, and guidance – so motion is intentional, coherent, accessible, and reusable across the product ecosystem.
- Lead motion direction for flagship and AI-forward experiences, using motion to clarify state, cause and effect, hierarchy, feedback, progress, and system responsiveness.
- Partner horizontally with product designers, engineers, product managers, researchers, and content designers to connect individual feature work to a shared motion strategy and raise the quality of shipped experiences.
- Turn high-craft explorations into scalable design system contributions that reduce ad hoc implementation, improve consistency, and enable teams to move faster with confidence.
- Rapidly prototype and validate motion ideas using the right medium – motion studies, design tools, code, AI-enabled tools, or custom prototypes – to create shared understanding and accelerate decisions.
- Work closely with engineering throughout implementation to solve technically ambitious animation challenges while balancing performance, platform conventions, accessibility, and maintainability.
- Develop or enable lightweight tools, templates, and workflows that help designers explore visual and motion ideas quickly and help engineering teams build sophisticated animations reliably.
- Stay at the leading edge of AI-enabled motion and visual-creation tools, applying them strategically to improve ideation, prototyping, and production while maintaining critical thinking, quality validation, and ownership of final outcomes.
- Conduct motion quality reviews, give actionable feedback on designs and implementations, and mentor designers in motion principles, systems thinking, prototype craft, and productive engineering partnership.
- Clearly articulate the rationale, tradeoffs, and user impact behind motion decisions to teams, leaders, and executives; build alignment around a high bar for motion craft and system quality.
What we're looking for:
- 8+ years of experience in motion design, product design, interaction design, or a closely related discipline, with a portfolio demonstrating exceptional motion craft in shipped digital products or platforms.
- A staff/principal-level track record of influencing horizontally across teams, shaping a product or design-system direction, and raising quality without relying on formal authority.
- Deep command of motion and interaction design principles, including timing, choreography, easing, spring behavior, feedback, and transitions – and strong judgment about when motion improves usability, comprehension, emotion, and trust.
- Experience creating or materially evolving scalable motion systems, such as principles, token sets, pattern libraries, documentation, tooling, and governance that teams can adopt across products and platforms.
- Demonstrated experience partnering closely with engineers to implement complex motion; practical fluency in performance, technical constraints, platform conventions, handoff, and quality assurance.
- A design technologist mindset: comfortable using prototyping tools, AI, and code or technical workflows where useful to explore ideas, communicate intent, and improve how teams design and build.
- Strong product and systems thinking: able to connect craft decisions to user needs, product strategy, accessibility, implementation efficiency, and measurable impact.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to synthesize ambiguity, create clear documentation, facilitate constructive critique, and align diverse cross-functional partners.
- A collaborative, low-ego working style with a passion for learning, experimentation, mentoring, and inclusive design. You consider reduced-motion preferences, cognitive load, and diverse user needs from the beginning of the design process.
- Bachelor's degree in design, animation, human-computer interaction, a related field, or equivalent experience.
Bonus Points For:
- Experience defining motion for AI, conversational, multimodal, or other emerging product experiences.
- Experience contributing to platform-wide design systems, public motion systems, or open-source animation libraries.
- Experience building designer-facing or engineer-facing tools that improve motion prototyping, handoff, or implementation quality.
- Experience in large-scale consumer products, personalization, or rapid experimentation environments.
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months, and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
LI-REMOTE
Our Commitment to Inclusion:
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.
By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.
About Pinterest:
Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other's unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.
At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we're looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we'll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.
Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.
Pinterest is looking for a thoughtful, highly skilled Staff Motion Designer to join the Design Innovation team. You will define and evolve the motion design language that brings clarity, coherence, and delight to Pinterest across surfaces and flagship features. This is a hands-on, horizontal role for a rare blend of motion craft leader, systems thinker, and design technologist. You will establish reusable motion principles, patterns, tokens, and implementation guidance within the design system; partner directly with product and engineering teams to solve challenging interaction problems; and build tools and prototypes that make it easier to explore and ship exceptional motion at scale. Your impact will extend from the details of a single interaction to the cohesive experience of Pinterest as a whole.
Join us to define the motion language that makes Pinterest's next generation of products feel clear, capable, and unmistakably Pinterest—raising the bar for craft, trust, and coherence for millions of Pinners.
What you'll do:
- Define and evolve Pinterest's motion design language – principles, interaction and transition patterns, timing and tokens, specifications, and guidance – so motion is intentional, coherent, accessible, and reusable across the product ecosystem.
- Lead motion direction for flagship and AI-forward experiences, using motion to clarify state, cause and effect, hierarchy, feedback, progress, and system responsiveness.
- Partner horizontally with product designers, engineers, product managers, researchers, and content designers to connect individual feature work to a shared motion strategy and raise the quality of shipped experiences.
- Turn high-craft explorations into scalable design system contributions that reduce ad hoc implementation, improve consistency, and enable teams to move faster with confidence.
- Rapidly prototype and validate motion ideas using the right medium – motion studies, design tools, code, AI-enabled tools, or custom prototypes – to create shared understanding and accelerate decisions.
- Work closely with engineering throughout implementation to solve technically ambitious animation challenges while balancing performance, platform conventions, accessibility, and maintainability.
- Develop or enable lightweight tools, templates, and workflows that help designers explore visual and motion ideas quickly and help engineering teams build sophisticated animations reliably.
- Stay at the leading edge of AI-enabled motion and visual-creation tools, applying them strategically to improve ideation, prototyping, and production while maintaining critical thinking, quality validation, and ownership of final outcomes.
- Conduct motion quality reviews, give actionable feedback on designs and implementations, and mentor designers in motion principles, systems thinking, prototype craft, and productive engineering partnership.
- Clearly articulate the rationale, tradeoffs, and user impact behind motion decisions to teams, leaders, and executives; build alignment around a high bar for motion craft and system quality.
What we're looking for:
- 8+ years of experience in motion design, product design, interaction design, or a closely related discipline, with a portfolio demonstrating exceptional motion craft in shipped digital products or platforms.
- A staff/principal-level track record of influencing horizontally across teams, shaping a product or design-system direction, and raising quality without relying on formal authority.
- Deep command of motion and interaction design principles, including timing, choreography, easing, spring behavior, feedback, and transitions – and strong judgment about when motion improves usability, comprehension, emotion, and trust.
- Experience creating or materially evolving scalable motion systems, such as principles, token sets, pattern libraries, documentation, tooling, and governance that teams can adopt across products and platforms.
- Demonstrated experience partnering closely with engineers to implement complex motion; practical fluency in performance, technical constraints, platform conventions, handoff, and quality assurance.
- A design technologist mindset: comfortable using prototyping tools, AI, and code or technical workflows where useful to explore ideas, communicate intent, and improve how teams design and build.
- Strong product and systems thinking: able to connect craft decisions to user needs, product strategy, accessibility, implementation efficiency, and measurable impact.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to synthesize ambiguity, create clear documentation, facilitate constructive critique, and align diverse cross-functional partners.
- A collaborative, low-ego working style with a passion for learning, experimentation, mentoring, and inclusive design. You consider reduced-motion preferences, cognitive load, and diverse user needs from the beginning of the design process.
- Bachelor's degree in design, animation, human-computer interaction, a related field, or equivalent experience.
Bonus Points For:
- Experience defining motion for AI, conversational, multimodal, or other emerging product experiences.
- Experience contributing to platform-wide design systems, public motion systems, or open-source animation libraries.
- Experience building designer-facing or engineer-facing tools that improve motion prototyping, handoff, or implementation quality.
- Experience in large-scale consumer products, personalization, or rapid experimentation environments.
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months, and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
LI-REMOTE
Our Commitment to Inclusion:
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.
By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Staff Designer
Translate your Australian design credentials
A three-year Australian bachelor's degree in design, visual communication, or interaction design satisfies the E-3 visa degree requirement. Get a credential evaluation confirming equivalency to a U.S. bachelor's before your first interview to avoid delays at the offer stage.
Target studios with prior E-3 filing history
Design agencies and in-house teams at tech companies that have sponsored Australian nationals before already understand the LCA process. Search DOL disclosure data to identify employers with recent E-3 or H-1B filings for design roles before applying.
Frame your portfolio around specialty occupation evidence
Your portfolio needs to demonstrate that the role requires specialised design knowledge, not just general creative skill. Lead with projects that involved systems thinking, design direction, or cross-functional product work to support the specialty occupation classification.
Clarify the LCA requirement early in negotiations
Once you have an offer, your employer must file a Labor Condition Application with the DOL before your consulate appointment can proceed. Raise this in the offer conversation so HR isn't caught off guard by the pre-visa paperwork step.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for the full process
After your offer is signed, use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork end-to-end. This avoids the coordination gaps that slow down first-time sponsors and gets you to your consulate appointment faster.
Prepare a nonimmigrant intent response for your interview
E-3 is a nonimmigrant visa, so consular officers will assess your ties to Australia. Prepare a direct, factual response covering ongoing Australian connections, such as property, family, or professional memberships, before your Sydney, Melbourne, or Perth appointment.
E-3 Visa Staff Designer: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Staff Designer jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. It filters Staff Designer roles by employers willing to sponsor Australian nationals on the E-3 visa, so you're not sifting through listings that exclude visa candidates. The platform surfaces design roles where sponsorship is already part of the hiring conversation, saving you the back-and-forth of asking each employer individually.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Staff Designer role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes, provided the position genuinely requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a design-related field such as graphic design, interaction design, or visual communication. Roles titled Staff Designer at product companies and agencies typically meet this standard. Where it can get complicated is when a job description lists a degree as preferred rather than required, which can undermine the specialty occupation case at the consulate.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Staff Designer roles?
The E-3 is available only to Australian citizens, but it has no lottery and no annual cap, which means you can apply whenever you have a job offer rather than waiting for an April registration window. H-1B selection is random and capped at 85,000 per year. For Australian designers, the E-3 is a far more direct path because approval depends on your qualifications and the role, not on luck.
Can I switch Staff Designer roles while on an E-3 visa?
Yes, but you need a new LCA and updated visa documentation before starting with the new employer. The E-3 is employer-specific, so your current approval doesn't transfer automatically. If you're changing jobs before your visa period ends, your new employer files a fresh LCA with the DOL, and you'll typically need to attend another consulate appointment in Australia to get a new E-3 stamp.