СШАExpedia
Director / Principal Motion Designer
3 дн. назад
СШАSeniorOnsite
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Director / Principal Motion Designer role at Expedia Group, a global travel company, focused on defining and elevating motion design across product and brand with leadership and hands-on involvement.
About the company
- Expedia Group is a travel company that owns major online platforms for organizing trips, booking hotels, flights, and car rentals.
- As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, Expedia connects travelers, partners, and advertisers through consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.
- Expedia promotes five behaviors: Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together.
- Locations include San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, or Austin.
About the product
- Motion is how Expedia products feel and how stories land.
- Motion design includes micro-interactions in the app and directing sizzle reels for major campaigns.
- Responsible for defining and evolving Expedia Design's motion language and embedding motion into design systems.
- Ensures motion principles, patterns, and guidelines make products delightful, clear, and unmistakably Expedia.
- Creates UI motion for product including transitions, micro-interactions, state changes, loading and success moments, and moments of delight.
- Leads editorial and promotional motion such as brand films, sizzle videos, and storytelling pieces.
- Partners with engineering across iOS, Android, and web platforms for implementation.
- Keeps current on motion implementation technologies like native animation frameworks, Lottie, Rive, and CSS/JS animation.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve Expedia Design's motion language.
- Establish motion principles, patterns, and guidelines to enhance product experience.
- Build motion into design systems for consistency and scalability.
- Design UI motion for products including detailed polished transitions and interactions.
- Prototype and validate motion ideas, advocating for usability-focused motion.
- Write clear, implementable motion specs for engineers across iOS, Android, and web.
- Partner with engineering on implementation and review builds to ensure alignment with design intent.
- Create editorial and promotional motion content including sizzle reels and launch videos.
- Develop concepts, storyboards, and narratives, guiding production personally or through teams.
- Act as the motion expert and mentor within Expedia Design, elevating motion craft organization-wide.
- Influence stakeholders across product leadership, brand, and marketing on the importance of motion.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in UI motion design with a portfolio of polished, purposeful animation.
- Proven ability to create engineering-ready motion specs and hand them off to iOS, Android, and web engineers.
- Strong knowledge of motion implementation in code and practical constraints across tech stacks.
- Mastery of industry-standard motion and prototyping tools such as After Effects, Figma, Principle, Rive, Lottie workflows or equivalents.
- Demonstrated ability to design, build, or direct editorial motion work like brand films and promotional content.
- Strong storytelling, art direction, timing, rhythm, and craft skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with senior-level influence experience.
- Experience raising craft bar through mentorship, standards, or leadership.
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Motion, HCI, User Experience, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5–10+ years of experience in product design or related disciplines including leadership of large-scale teams.
- Proven ability to define and drive organization-level customer experience strategy.
- Demonstrated ability to balance leadership with direct design work (player-coach).
- Strong communication across design, research, and content strategy.
- Experience integrating customer insights, data, and AI-driven systems into design solutions.
Nice to have
- 3D design skills (Cinema 4D, Blender) and experience integrating 3D into product or brand storytelling.
- Experience building or contributing to a motion system within a design system.
- Experience in travel, consumer marketplaces, or high-volume consumer products.
- Familiarity with front-end or native animation code sufficient to prototype or contribute directly.
- Track record of executing a large-scale customer experience vision.
- Experience building and scaling design systems.
- Success coaching senior creatives while maintaining craft quality.
- Expertise in storytelling and stakeholder influence.
- Experience leading AI/ML-enabled product design efforts.
- Passion for craft with hands-on involvement to influence design outcomes.
Conditions
- Expedia Group offers a wide range of benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program.
- Wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent benefit to fuel employees’ passion for travel.