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LeadFull-timeAWSFigmaAI
Salary Range
$108,375 - $146,625 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Staff Product Designer to join our Personalisation Patterns team at Pinterest. This role involves systematizing quality and advocating for world-class experiences across Pinterest’s core surfaces.
Key Responsibilities
- →Drive System Quality: Lead the stewardship, evolution, and adoption of our core design patterns, component libraries, and gestalt subsystems—ensuring cohesive, delightful, and accessible user experiences at scale.
- →Partner Horizontally: Act as a strategic advisor and a hands-on partner to product, engineering, and design teams across Personalisation and core surfaces.
- →Advance Systemic Thinking: Apply methodical, systematic approaches to pattern creation, balancing product usability, craft, accessibility, and business needs.
- →Prototype & Technologize: Rapidly visualize, prototype, and validate new ideas; translate abstract solutions into practical, scalable patterns.
- →Uphold and Elevate Craft: Conduct quality audits, review flows and handoffs, and directly contribute hands-on design when needed.
- →Mentor & Scale Impact: Inspire and guide other designers in craft, systemic thinking, and best practices.
- →Champion Accessibility & Inclusion: Ensure our design systems support diverse user needs.
- →Communicate & Influence: Clearly articulate your design thinking, rationale, and vision.
Requirements
- ✓Bachelor's degree in design or a related field or equivalent experience.
- ✓8+ years of experience in product design, with significant time spent driving or evolving design systems or pattern libraries.
- ✓Portfolio demonstrating polished interface design, systemic thinking, component-based UIs, and tangible influence across large organizations.
- ✓Track record in staff/principal-level roles, influencing horizontally, upholding design quality, and partnering cross-functionally.
- ✓Design technologist mindset: Comfortable experimenting with Figma prototypes, AI, and (optionally) front-end code.
- ✓Excellent communicator who can synthesize ambiguity into actionable design problems and unite teams through clarity, documentation, and collaboration.
- ✓Growth mindset with a passion for ongoing learning, experimentation, and mentoring others.
- ✓Demonstrated commitment to inclusion, accessibility, and crafting systems that serve diverse audiences.
- ✓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.
