Senior Product Designer, Design System - Motion Design

POS-15807

HubSpot’s Design Systems team builds the foundations for a world-class user experience. Supporting over 2,400 product managers, UXers, and engineers, the system includes 350+ coded components, 300+ illustrations, robust documentation, and a flexible contribution model. We’re a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to shaping the future of our design system that will enable our HubSpot products to be more consistent, and customer-centric with a focus on high-quality and driving customer and business value. We come from diverse backgrounds and like to talk about design thinking and push the boundaries of what is possible. 

We’re looking for a designer to shape and scale how motion UX design can elevate our product experiences. You’ll craft principles, patterns, and tools that add clarity, cohesion, and emotional resonance—making motion a core part of our design system.

• Define strategy for motion across our design system: principles, guidelines, and scalable patterns.
  
• Collaborate with design, engineering, and brand teams to create reusable, accessible motion standards.
  
• Prototype motion that enhances usability, transitions, interactions, and information hierarchy that will be unique to HubSpot.
  
• Build motion guidelines and documentation to empower teams to implement motion consistently.
  
• Embed accessibility standards (e.g., reduced motion preferences, timing guidelines).
  
• Maintain and evolve motion tokens, transitions, and interactions across platforms (React).
  
• Mentor designers and promote motion literacy via demos, critiques, and workshops.
  
• Contribute to updating our design language (typography, iconography, elevation, etc.) with a focus on interaction design, microanimations, AI loading states, pictogram motion, and transitions.
  
• Use AI design tools to explore and prototype forward-thinking motion concepts.
  

• Designing opinionated motion components that balance usability, craft, and performance.
  
• Embedding motion into a11y-compliant components while navigating system-wide consistency.
  
• Defining a governance model that drives adoption and scalability across all product teams.
  
• Supporting a design transformation with a high bar for quality and cohesion.
  

• A portfolio showing system-level motion design that solved complex UX challenges, that shows you care about the details and love creating productive to expressive motion patterns, prototypes, and assets.
  
• Deep expertise in motion principles, usability, accessibility, and interaction design.
  
• Experience developing bespoke motion patterns that expresses a brand and product.
  
• Track record of shipping motion in production-ready systems, in partnership with engineers.
  
• Experience in building and documenting component libraries and token strategies.
  
• Ability to prioritize, drive projects, and make data-informed decisions in a fast-paced environment.
  
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills to influence cross-functional teams and leadership.
  
• Expert skills in using Figma, After Effects, and Lottie.
  
• A curious mindset with a passion for emerging tools like Replit and Lovable to accelerate the conceptualization of ideas. 

Our UX team is a passionate and diverse group of more than 200 product designers, content designers, researchers, and design ops folks who build consumer-grade experiences while solving enterprise-level problems. We’re set up to work as equal partners to our peers in product management and engineering. And we design and deliver a crafted experience to our customers by setting a high bar on ease of use. We’re investing deeply in building whole and healthy UX teams across all of our disciplines so we can better solve problems for our customers.

We involve our customers in every step of our development process. And we strive to deliver a B2B product that’s just as easy to use as the best B2C products on the market. When our customers grow, we grow, too!

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There’s a lot of research showing how marginalized groups of people may not apply for jobs unless they meet 100% (or more!) of the qualifications. We also know that many UX folks come from backgrounds with different experiences that might not seem “standard”—and that’s okay! We really value people who bring unique perspectives and add new knowledge to our team.

But you might not feel like you “check all the boxes” as you read this job post. We get it. And we feel these things ourselves, too. But we hope you’ll apply anyway because we’ll take great care in working with you. 🧡

Cash compensation range: 161500-258400 USD Annually