Staff Product Designer (Design Innovation)

Role overview

Pinterest is hiring a Staff Product Designer to join the Design Innovation team. You’ll help evolve Pinterest’s product design language, craft intuitive experiences, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to raise the bar for craft, consistency, and innovation across the product ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Design product experiences systematically, interactively, and visually, maintaining high standards of craft and consistency across surfaces and platforms.
• Evolve the product design language in partnership with cross-functional teams, bringing it to life in key product surfaces and features.
• Mentor and guide designers, strengthening craft, systemic thinking, best practices, and overall design culture.
• Connect design decisions to user outcomes, product strategy, and measurable impact.
• Use strong motion and visual design to improve clarity, comprehension, and engagement.
• Ensure quality and cohesion, including accessibility and inclusive design considerations.
• Bring a design technologist mindset: prototype in Figma, experiment with AI, and optionally use front-end code to validate feasibility and streamline workflows.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product design experience with a portfolio of shipped or in-progress work.
• Ability to design within and extend a design system, balancing consistency with thoughtful innovation.
• Staff/principal-level track record: influence horizontally, uphold design craft quality, and partner cross-functionally (ideally in large-scale consumer/platform environments).
• Strong communication and storytelling: articulate decisions and tradeoffs, synthesize ambiguity into actionable problems, and unify teams through clarity and documentation.
• Expert-level motion and visual design skills; deep understanding of how principles affect usability and experience quality.
• Low-ego, collaborative style with a growth mindset; strong feedback culture (give/receive feedback).
• Accessibility and inclusive design attention to detail and ownership of quality.

Nice to have

• Contributions to public design systems, open-source libraries, or industry talks/writing.
• Familiarity with personalization, large consumer apps, or rapid-scale environments.
• Experience leading platform-wide/multi-product design system initiatives.
• Experience in environments involving rapid iteration and large-scale personalization.

Work location / logistics

• Full remote, but the role requires being in the office for in-person collaboration 1–2 times every 6 months and can be situated anywhere in the country.