Traveltechessentialist
Senior Motion Designer
Traveltechessentialist, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Senior Motion Designer
United States - California - San Francisco
Technology • Full‑Time Regular • Posted 10/23/2025 • ID # R-98855
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting‑edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, building groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community drives our success.
Why Join Us? We provide a full benefits package, including travel perks, generous time‑off, parental leave, a flexible work model with cool offices, and career development resources. We’re building a more open world – join us.
Team Description The Product Team creates high‑quality end‑to‑end experiences for travelers, partners, and Expedia Group. As a Senior Motion Designer on the Brand Design team, you’ll bring our products to life through motion, animation, and prototyping, shaping how brand expression appears in interactions, transitions, and storytelling moments that inspire travelers.
Responsibilities
Design and prototype motion for product interfaces, from micro‑interactions to end‑to‑end flows.
Translate brand identity into dynamic moments that feel cohesive across web, mobile, and emerging platforms.
Partner with designers and engineers to ensure motion is feasible, performant, and built with care.
Collaborate with UX research and data teams to test and validate motion’s impact on user engagement, comprehension, and conversion.
Define guidelines and principles for motion within our design system, including reusable motion tokens.
Explore and integrate generative AI tools (e.g., Runway ML, Spline, Adobe Firefly) to accelerate motion ideation, prototyping, and production workflows.
Design motion experiences that scale across platforms, including AR/VR, wearables, and voice interfaces.
Lead motion design workshops and evangelize best practices across design, product, and engineering teams.
Contribute to critiques, mentoring, and raising the bar for design craft across the team.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Design, HCI, UX, or related field, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of experience in product or motion design with a portfolio that demonstrates motion as part of shipped digital products.
Expert in After Effects, Principle, Framer, or similar motion/prototyping tools.
Skilled in Figma and able to integrate motion into design workflows.
Strong sense of timing, rhythm, and visual storytelling.
Experience working with engineers to deliver animations at production quality.
Comfortable balancing creative experimentation with practical constraints.
Familiarity with emerging AI‑assisted design tools and a curiosity for leveraging them.
Excited to make motion a core part of how travelers experience our brands.
Preferred Qualifications
Systems thinker who can scale motion across a multi‑brand platform.
Advocate for accessible and inclusive motion design.
Collaborative partner who thrives in cross‑disciplinary teams.
Detail‑oriented, hands‑on, and driven by craft.
Strategic thinker who connects motion design to business outcomes and user impact.
Benefits Medical/dental/vision, paid time off, employee assistance program, wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an international airline travel agent membership.
Compensation The total cash range for this position in San Francisco is $187,000.00 to $261,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $299,000.00 based on performance.
Accommodation Requests If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability or other condition, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request form.
EEO Statement Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We participate in E‑Verify.
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Technology • Full‑Time Regular • Posted 10/23/2025 • ID # R-98855
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting‑edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, building groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community drives our success.
Why Join Us? We provide a full benefits package, including travel perks, generous time‑off, parental leave, a flexible work model with cool offices, and career development resources. We’re building a more open world – join us.
Team Description The Product Team creates high‑quality end‑to‑end experiences for travelers, partners, and Expedia Group. As a Senior Motion Designer on the Brand Design team, you’ll bring our products to life through motion, animation, and prototyping, shaping how brand expression appears in interactions, transitions, and storytelling moments that inspire travelers.
Responsibilities
Design and prototype motion for product interfaces, from micro‑interactions to end‑to‑end flows.
Translate brand identity into dynamic moments that feel cohesive across web, mobile, and emerging platforms.
Partner with designers and engineers to ensure motion is feasible, performant, and built with care.
Collaborate with UX research and data teams to test and validate motion’s impact on user engagement, comprehension, and conversion.
Define guidelines and principles for motion within our design system, including reusable motion tokens.
Explore and integrate generative AI tools (e.g., Runway ML, Spline, Adobe Firefly) to accelerate motion ideation, prototyping, and production workflows.
Design motion experiences that scale across platforms, including AR/VR, wearables, and voice interfaces.
Lead motion design workshops and evangelize best practices across design, product, and engineering teams.
Contribute to critiques, mentoring, and raising the bar for design craft across the team.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Design, HCI, UX, or related field, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of experience in product or motion design with a portfolio that demonstrates motion as part of shipped digital products.
Expert in After Effects, Principle, Framer, or similar motion/prototyping tools.
Skilled in Figma and able to integrate motion into design workflows.
Strong sense of timing, rhythm, and visual storytelling.
Experience working with engineers to deliver animations at production quality.
Comfortable balancing creative experimentation with practical constraints.
Familiarity with emerging AI‑assisted design tools and a curiosity for leveraging them.
Excited to make motion a core part of how travelers experience our brands.
Preferred Qualifications
Systems thinker who can scale motion across a multi‑brand platform.
Advocate for accessible and inclusive motion design.
Collaborative partner who thrives in cross‑disciplinary teams.
Detail‑oriented, hands‑on, and driven by craft.
Strategic thinker who connects motion design to business outcomes and user impact.
Benefits Medical/dental/vision, paid time off, employee assistance program, wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an international airline travel agent membership.
Compensation The total cash range for this position in San Francisco is $187,000.00 to $261,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $299,000.00 based on performance.
Accommodation Requests If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability or other condition, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request form.
EEO Statement Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We participate in E‑Verify.
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