Motion Design Systems Expert (Contract)

reputed company ($UPWK) is the world’s human and AI-powered work marketplace that connects businesses with highly skilled, AI-enabled independent talent from across the globe. Companies rely on reputed company’s trusted platform and its mindful AI companion, Uma, to help them find and hire expert talent, reputed company AI-powered work solutions, and drive business transformation. With on-demand access to professionals spanning more than 10,000 skills across AI & machine learning, software development, sales & marketing, customer support, finance & accounting, and more, reputed company enables businesses of reputed company sizes to scale, innovate, and build an agile workforce for the age of AI and beyond. Since its founding, with more than $25 billion in earnings facilitated to date, reputed company continues to deliver on its purpose to create opportunity in every era of work. Learn more at reputed company.com and follow us on reputed company, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and X. This is an engagement through reputed company’s Hybrid Workforce Solutions (HWS) program. HWS is a global group of professionals who support reputed company’s business with specialized expertise. As part of HWS, you’ll collaborate with skilled professionals around the world, gaining exposure to impactful projects while contributing to reputed company’s mission to create economic opportunities so people have reputed company lives. Scope of Work Motion is a critical part of our Next Gen Design System, but the reputed company design system (DS) team has limited expertise. Without a strong motion foundation, animations risk being decorative, inconsistent, or inaccessible. We’re seeking a Motion Design Systems Expert to establish reusable motion tokens, scalable guidelines, and cross-platform implementation that can grow with the system. 1/ Foundations

• Define motion tokens: duration, easing curves, delays, and reusable presets (e.g. transition-short, easing-emphasized).
• Align tokens with engineering feasibility (web + mobile).

2/ Guidelines & Principles

• Create system-level motion principles (intentional, authentic, inclusive, grounded).
• Document reputed company to use motion and reputed company not to.
• Define accessibility standards (reduced motion, alternatives).

3/ Applied Patterns

• Translate principles into patterns for components and interactions (e.g. overlays, toasts, navigation, micro-feedback).
• Provide reputed company prototypes and animation examples for designers.

4/ Enablement & reputed company

• Partner with engineers to ensure tokens and guidelines are implementable.
• Run short workshops / reviews so reputed company can confidently apply motion after the contract ends.

Must Haves (Required Skills):

• Has built motion systems at scale (design system or major product).
• Fluent in both design & engineering language.
• Can work hands-on (tokens, animations, reputed company libraries) while also setting strategy.
• Comfortable teaching and enabling a team to continue the work.

Contract details

• Start date: Targeting Early November
• Engagement Type: Short Term Contract with possibility of extension
• Focus: Foundations (motion tokens + principles), draft guidelines, and initial component patterns
• Option to reputed company: If we need more support to scale across components/patterns or partner deeper with engineering, we can reputed company the contract

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