Staff Product Designer, Closeup

Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest were on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions transform passion into growth opportunities celebrate each others unique experiences and embrace theflexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love Its Possible.

At Pinterest AI isnt just a feature its a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact and were looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities well explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.

Through our interview process what matters most is that you can always explain your approach showing us not just what you know but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.

We are looking for a Staff Product Designer to lead Closeup one of Pinterests highest leverage consumer surfaces. It is the moment where inspiration turns into action. This role gives you direct ownership over a core high-traffic experience used by millions of Pinners where great design can meaningfully shift both user value and business outcomes. The work is inherently crossorg and highly visible. Closeup sits at the intersection of the Pinterest home feed search shopping visual search and more. Youll collaborate with senior partners across product engineering research and adjacent design teams building influence quickly and becoming a go to design leader for end-to-end experience decisions.

What Youll Do

Own end to end Closeup design: Lead design for key Closeup experiences across iOS Android and web from early exploration through launch and iteration
Drive product outcomes through design: Partner with cross functional leads to define goals metrics and experiment plans and ship improvements that increase user value and measurable impact
Simplify complex modular experiences: Improve information hierarchy interaction patterns and module behavior across many Pin types and use cases balancing relevance clarity and actionability
Partner across teams and systems: Work closely with adjacent teams (Home Search Visual Search Gestalt) to align patterns and deliver a cohesive experience across the product
Prototype and iterate quickly: Use Figma and interactive prototyping to explore options validate direction and accelerate decision making with partners
Raise the craft bar: Lead critiques and reviews set a high standard for interaction and visual design and mentor other designers through feedback and collaboration
Design for inclusion and trust: Ensure Closeup experiences are accessible inclusive and designed with content quality and safety considerations where needed
Use AI to accelerate exploration and iteration: leverage AI tools to rapidly generate and compare Closeup concepts and interaction approaches then refine with strong product judgment and craft
Design AI-aware Closeup experiences: partner with ML Product and Engineering to shape how AI-driven signals and experiences show up in Closeup improving relevance clarity and actionability for Pinners across diverse Pin types

What Were Looking For

Bachelors degree in design a related field or equivalent experience
8 years of product design experience with ownership of significant consumer product surfaces
A portfolio showing strong interaction design visual craft and systems thinking with work that has shipped and iterated based on feedback or data
Demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous problems set direction and drive alignment across senior cross functional partners
Experience using AI in your design workflow to improve speed and quality including generating options and synthesizing inputs while clearly articulating your rationale and decision making
Experience designing for mobile and platform considerations with strong product judgment and attention to detail
Comfort working in an experimentation and measurement driven environment including defining hypotheses and learning from results
Excellent communication skills including the ability to articulate tradeoffs present clearly and influence decisions
Demonstrated commitment to inclusion accessibility and crafting systems that serve diverse audiences

Bonus Points For

Experience owning a high traffic detail viewer or consumption surface (content detail pages product pages media viewers)
Experience with shopping evaluation trust signals or decision support UX
Familiarity with personalization and ranking constraints or designing modular experiences at scale
Strong accessibility expertise and examples of inclusive design leadership

In-Office Requirement Statement:

We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
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:

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About Pinterest:Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest were on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love and that starts with the people b...