Staff Motion Designer, Design Systems (contract)- 608
Staff Motion Designer, Design Systems (contract)- 608
Braintrust
United States
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Job Description
About The Team
The Design Systems team is responsible for creating the visual-and-interactive system that product teams rely on to build beautiful, usable, digital user experiences in a scalable and repeatable way. Our design system consists of the components, patterns, guidelines, and toolkits that enable designers and engineers to quickly-and-efficiently build products for the millions of Etsy buyers and sellers from across the world.
About The Role
We are looking for a highly-skilled motion designer to join our multidisciplinary team. In this role, you will define and implement Etsy's motion design language with a strategic focus on usability, interactivity, and delight to reinforce Etsy's brand. Your work will be foundational in creating a comprehensive motion design system that drives usability and visual consistency for motion, micro-interactions, transitions, and animations across web and native platforms, setting a high standard for motion design at Etsy.
Your expertise will guide the development of motion design principles, and play a key role in shaping the visual identity of our products through strategic and innovative motion design initiatives.
Day to day, it looks like:
Must-Haves
About The Team
The Design Systems team is responsible for creating the visual-and-interactive system that product teams rely on to build beautiful, usable, digital user experiences in a scalable and repeatable way. Our design system consists of the components, patterns, guidelines, and toolkits that enable designers and engineers to quickly-and-efficiently build products for the millions of Etsy buyers and sellers from across the world.
About The Role
We are looking for a highly-skilled motion designer to join our multidisciplinary team. In this role, you will define and implement Etsy's motion design language with a strategic focus on usability, interactivity, and delight to reinforce Etsy's brand. Your work will be foundational in creating a comprehensive motion design system that drives usability and visual consistency for motion, micro-interactions, transitions, and animations across web and native platforms, setting a high standard for motion design at Etsy.
Your expertise will guide the development of motion design principles, and play a key role in shaping the visual identity of our products through strategic and innovative motion design initiatives.
Day to day, it looks like:
- Building a library of animations, motion tokens and detailed documentation to guide product designers to create their own experiences
- Driving the application of Etsy’s design system through animation, motion design and prototyping
- Applying your talent for animation to simplify complex interactions and solve challenging design problems
- Providing hands-on support and guidance to product designers implementing motion design into their projects
- Testing prototypes and hypotheses with users to collect feedback
- Presenting your work to peers and leadership, async and in-person
- Taking part in weekly design critiques, workshops, all hands and squad meetings
- Thinking and writing about your process and documenting your decisions
Must-Haves
- 6+ years of motion design experience in product design
- Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams, including designers, engineers, product managers and researchers
- Fluency in motion software (After Effects, Principle)
- Experience with Figma design software
- Demonstrated experience working across web and native (Android and iOS) platforms
- Strong understanding of accessibility principles and how to apply them to motion design
- Experience with Origami Studio or other prototyping tools
- Illustration skills for visualizing storyboards and strategy
- Experience in developing guidelines that can be applied across a range of touchpoints
- Experience working with and contributing to design systems
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level -
Employment type
Contract -
Job function
Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology -
Industries
Technology, Information and Internet
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