Sr. Staff Product Designer, Motion
Etsy 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
As a Sr. Staff Motion Designer, you will define and lead the motion language that enhances the buyer and seller experience across all platforms. You will build systems and frameworks for motion integration into product design, collaborating with various teams.
Responsibilities
- Develop Motion Systems: Build a multi-layered motion system ranging from icons and illustrations to component behavior and full-page transitions
- Shape Brand Voice: Partner with the Brand team to codify a motion language that serves product and marketing, crafting a universal "voice" for Etsy
- System Integration: Collaborate with Design Systems to develop durable motion tokens and apply them across stateful components
- Cross-Platform Collaboration: Work with iOS, Android, and Web teams to identify opportunities for motion that improve clarity and usability
- Engineering Partnership: Engage with engineers to ensure all animations are high-quality, feasible, and performant
- Lead through Craft: Set the standard for motion craft across the design organization and influence how it is integrated into the design process
Requirements
- A deep portfolio demonstrating systematic motion design, including motion principles and expressive interactions
- Experience turning brand foundations into product-ready motion systems
- Expertise designing motion across native (iOS, Android) and web surfaces
- Ability to create semantic frameworks and tokens that translate conceptual motion into implementable code
- Comfort with prototyping tools (e.g., After Effects, Principle, Lottie, Framer) at both low and high fidelity
- Strong understanding of how motion impacts accessibility, clarity, and hierarchy
Key Skills
- Motion design
- Brand development
- Systematic design
- Expressive interactions
- Native app design
- Web design
- Prototyping
- After Effects
- Principle
- Lottie
- Framer
- Accessibility
- Clarity
- Hierarchy
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Leadership
Benefits
- Equity package
- Annual performance bonus
- Competitive benefits
About Etsy
Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world. Etsy Inc. employees – whether a team member of Etsy or Depop – tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human. Founded in 2005, Etsy is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY with additional offices in Dublin and Mexico City. As of December 31, 2024, our marketplaces connect 8 million active sellers – including over 5 million on Etsy.com, 80% of whom are women – and 95 million active buyers in nearly every country in the world. In 2024, we facilitated over $12 billion in transactions.
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