Sr Ui Motion Designer

T-Mobile T-Mobile · Telecom · Frisco, TX +3

This role focuses on designing and implementing UI motion for digital experiences, using AI tools for prototyping and streamlining workflows. The goal is to improve usability, product quality, and establish a consistent motion design language across web and native apps.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and deliver animated component prototypes, motion interactions, icon animations, transitions, and production-ready motion specifications that clearly communicate UI behavior, enhance engagement, simplify sophisticated interactions, and maintain consistent motion across the digital ecosystem.
  2. Leverage AI tooling and emerging motion technologies to rapidly prototype, visualize, test, and iterate on motion concepts while streamlining documentation, developer handoff, and implementation workflows.
  3. Define and maintain reusable motion tokens, animation principles, motion guidelines, and scalable motion patterns that bring clarity, usability, consistency, and accessibility to interactions across web and app experiences.
  4. Collaborate with Experience Designers, the Design System Manager, and engineering teams to find opportunities where motion enhances usability, align motion solutions with technical constraints and implementation requirements, and ensure motion is a core part of digital experiences.
  5. Act as the motion subject-matter expert by writing and maintaining documentation on motion guidelines for the design system; partner with the Design System Manager to host workshops and training sessions that help designers and engineers optimally apply motion across products and platforms.

Skills

Required

  • Expertise in animating UI elements, icons, transitions and interactions to enhance user engagement and usability.
  • Strong understanding of design principles, modern UI patterns, elements, interactions, responsive web design and accessibility standards.
  • High proficiency in standardizing animation patterns and creating motion tokens for design systems.
  • High Proficiency in Figma, After Effects, Lottie, Rive, Framer, or other motion graphics tool.
  • Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work closely with designers and engineers.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to verbally articulate and write documentation on motion guidelines.
  • Attention to detail and a commitment to design and animation quality.
  • Understanding of web standards and HTML/CSS.

Nice to have

  • Understanding of new AI workflows and tools like Claude or Codex.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI tools to create motion prototypes
  • Leverage AI tooling and emerging motion technologies
  • Understanding of new AI workflows and tools