Staff Product Designer, Closeup
$159k - $327k USD
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We are looking for a Staff Product Designer to lead Closeup, one of Pinterest’s 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 cross‑org and highly visible. Closeup sits at the intersection of the Pinterest home feed, search, shopping, visual search, and more. You’ll 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 You’ll 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 We’re Looking For
- Bachelor’s 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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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
US based applicants only
$158,765—$326,870 USD
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