Staff Product Designer, Patterns

We’re 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 Pinterest’s core surfaces.

You'll shape the next generation of Pinterest’s 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 who’s part methodological systems thinker, part craft champion, and part design technologist. The impact you’ll have will stretch across teams, product lines, and the very building blocks of Pinterest.

What you’ll do:

• 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.

What we’re looking for:

• 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.
• Join us to shape the platform and patterns that power inspiration for millions—raising the bar for design quality, system integrity, and Pinterest’s positive potential.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're 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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