Pinterest · 3 days ago
Staff Product Designer, Patterns
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$159K/yr - $327K/yr
8+ years expPinterest is a platform focused on inspiring creativity and helping individuals plan memorable experiences. They are seeking a Staff Product Designer to lead the design systems and component libraries, ensuring high-quality user experiences and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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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, empowering them to leverage best-in-class patterns and ship with confidence
Advance Systemic Thinking: Apply methodical, systematic approaches to pattern creation: balancing product usability, craft, accessibility, and business needs—with input from a wide range of stakeholders
Prototype & Technologize: Rapidly visualize, prototype, and validate new ideas; translate abstract solutions into practical, scalable patterns using Figma, code, AI, or whatever is needed to inspire clarity and adoption
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
Mentor & Scale Impact: Inspire and guide other designers in craft, systemic thinking, and best practices through critique, guidance, and sharing your expertise across teams
Champion Accessibility & Inclusion: Ensure our design systems support diverse user needs and raise the bar on inclusion and accessibility from the ground up
Communicate & Influence: Clearly articulate your design thinking, rationale, and vision—presenting work to teams, leaders, and executives, and rallying consensus
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in design, 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—ideally in large-scale consumer or platform environments
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
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
Benefits
Eligible for equity
Company
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.49BKey Investors
Elliott Management Corp.Brandtech VenturesSV Angel
2022-07-14Post Ipo Equity
2020-01-01Post Ipo Equity
2019-04-18IPO
Leadership Team
Bill Ready
Chief Executive Officer
Julia Brau Donnelly
Chief Financial Officer
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