Staff Product Designer, Design Innovation

Pinterest is looking for a Staff Product Designer to join the Design Innovation team. You'll evolve the product design language and craft intuitive, coherent, and delightful experiences across surfaces. You'll collaborate with product, engineering, research, and data science to shape end-to-end experiences that feel uniquely Pinterest, raise the quality bar, and explore new opportunities for innovation, including AI-powered experiences.

• Design product experiences—systematically, interactively, and visually—with a high bar for craft and consistency across the Pinterest product ecosystem.
• Partner with Design Innovation teammates and cross-functional partners to evolve our product design language and bring it to life in key product surfaces and features.
• Uphold and Elevate Craft: Conduct quality audits, review flows and handoffs, and directly contribute hands-on design when needed—always advocating for the highest standards.
• Prototype & Technologize: Rapidly visualize, prototype, validate new ideas; translate abstract solutions into practical, scalable patterns using Figma, code, AI, or whatever is needed to inspire clarity/adoption.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product management, and research to develop impactful, user-centric, and data-informed solutions; work with engineers throughout implementation to ensure high-quality execution.
• Incorporate insights from qualitative and quantitative research, experiments, and marketplace/AI trends to refine design directions and identify new opportunities for innovation.
• Contribute to design reviews and critique, helping to uphold and inspire a high level of design execution and inclusive, accessible experiences across the team.
• Mentor & Scale Impact: Inspire and guide other designers in craft, systemic thinking, and best practices through critique, guidance, and sharing your expertise across teams.
• Communicate & Influence: Clearly articulate your design thinking, rationale, and vision—presenting work to teams, leaders, and executives, and rallying consensus.

• 8+ years of experience in product design, with strong visual and interaction design skills demonstrated in a portfolio of shipped or in-progress work.
• Track record in staff/principal-level roles, influencing horizontally, upholding design craft quality, and partnering cross-functionally—ideally in large-scale consumer or platform environments.
• Expert-level motion and visual design skills, with a deep understanding of principles and their impact on usability, comprehension, and overall experience quality.
• Ability to design within and extend a design system, balancing consistency with thoughtful innovation across surfaces and platforms.
• Design technologist mindset: Comfortable experimenting with Figma prototypes, AI, and (optionally) front-end code; curious and opinionated about technical feasibility, accessibility, and how we can streamline design workflows and processes through systems and tools.
• Strong product thinking and systems mindset: you can connect craft decisions to user outcomes, product strategy, and measurable impact.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design decisions, tradeoffs, synthesize ambiguity into actionable design problems and unite teams through clarity, documentation, and collaboration.
• High attention to detail and a sense of ownership over the quality and cohesion of the product experience, including accessibility and inclusive design considerations.
• Collaborative, low-ego working style with a growth mindset; passion for ongoing learning, experimentation, and mentoring others, giving and receiving feedback & contributing to team culture.
• Bachelor’s degree in design, a related field or equivalent experience.

Bonus Points For: Experience leading platform-wide or multi-product design system initiatives. Familiarity with personalization, large consumer apps, or rapid scale environments. Contributions to public design systems, open-source libraries, or industry talks/writing.

Compensation: Base salary range $158,765—$326,870 USD, plus equity.

Location: Hybrid: US-based, with in-office collaboration 1-2 times every 6 months.