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ID.me · 2 days ago

Specialist Designer - Design Systems

Mountain View, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$200K/yr - $250K/yr

ID.me is a next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies secure online identity verification. The Specialist Designer - Design Systems role focuses on crafting motion design systems that enhance user experience across various platforms, ensuring that every interaction communicates trust and clarity.

Cloud Data ServicesCyber SecurityFraud DetectionIdentity ManagementPrivacySoftware

Responsibilities

Define and evolve a motion design system — principles, patterns, and tokens that scale across platforms and devices

Establish motion guidelines and frameworks that connect brand expression with functional UI behaviors

Translate static components into living systems that express hierarchy, feedback, and state changes through motion

Collaborate with engineering partners to ensure motion tokens, variables, and libraries are consistent and performant across environments

Document motion principles with examples and rationale that make adoption easy across teams

Create high-fidelity motion prototypes to communicate interaction intent, transitions, and micro-interactions

Use motion to clarify relationships, guide focus, and reduce cognitive load in complex interfaces

Collaborate with brand and marketing teams to ensure product motion aligns with broader brand storytelling

Push the boundaries of how design systems communicate emotion, rhythm, and identity through animation

Maintain balance between expressive and systematic motion — ensuring performance, accessibility, and usability

Partner with product, design systems, and engineering teams to bring motion principles into component libraries and production code

Lead motion reviews and motion audits — identifying inconsistencies and opportunities for refinement

Serve as a mentor and advocate for motion literacy across the organization, helping designers and developers integrate motion intentionally

Communicate complex motion concepts clearly through storytelling, prototypes, and visual documentation

Ensure motion contributes to accessibility and inclusivity (e.g., prefers-reduced-motion compliance)

Evolve the design system’s interaction layer as the bridge between static design and living product experience

Define success metrics and qualitative patterns for motion consistency and performance

Contribute to the broader design system roadmap, influencing how motion integrates with typography, color, spacing, and component evolution

Champion accessibility, ensuring motion adheres to prefers-reduced-motion standards without sacrificing meaning

Design motion patterns that aid cognitive understanding — using animation to communicate hierarchy, spatial relationships, and system feedback for users with visual or cognitive challenges

Develop adaptive motion states that adjust intensity, duration, or behavior based on user settings or context, ensuring motion remains inclusive, not exclusionary

Qualification

Motion design systemsAnimation principlesFigma expertiseCollaboration with engineersVisual design foundationCommunication

Required

Proven experience creating and maintaining motion systems within a design system or large-scale product environment

Deep understanding of animation principles, easing, timing, and choreography across web and native platforms

Expertise with Figma, Figma Make, After Effects, or similar motion and prototyping tools

Strong foundation in visual design, hierarchy, and interaction design — with the ability to use motion as a storytelling and usability tool

Experience collaborating with engineers to translate design motion into production-ready code (e.g., via CSS transitions, Lottie, or motion libraries)

Excellent communication skills with the ability to present and advocate for motion as part of the design system's DNA