Staff Product Designer, Patterns

Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Were seeking a Staff Product Designer to join our Personalisation Patterns team: a hands-on horizontal leader focused on systematizing quality and advocating for world-class experiences across Pinterests core surfaces.

Youll shape the next generation of Pinterests design systems and component libraries partner with cross-functional teams and help us deliver on our ambitious mission in an effective scalable and human-centered way. This is a role for a rare blend: a designer whos part methodological systems thinker part craft champion and part design technologist. The impact youll have will stretch across teams product lines and the very building blocks of Pinterest.

What youll do:

Drive System Quality: Lead the stewardship evolution and adoption of our core design patterns component libraries and gestalt subsystemsensuring 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 needswith 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 neededalways 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 visionpresenting work to teams leaders and executives and rallying consensus.

What were looking for:

Bachelors 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-functionallyideally 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.
Join us to shape the platform and patterns that power inspiration for millionsraising the bar for design quality system integrity and Pinterests positive potential.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means were not always working in an office but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

Relocation Statement:

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

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Required Experience:

Staff IC

What youll do:

Drive System Quality: Lead the stewardship evolution and adoption of our core design patterns component libraries and gestalt subsystemsensuring 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 needswith 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 neededalways 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 visionpresenting work to teams leaders and executives and rallying consensus.

What were looking for:

Bachelors 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-functionallyideally 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.
Join us to shape the platform and patterns that power inspiration for millionsraising the bar for design quality system integrity and Pinterests positive potential.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means were not always working in an office but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

Relocation Statement: