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San Francisco

Principal Product Designer, AI Native, Core at Pinterest

REMOTE SENIOR
Posted about 2 months ago
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Pinterest

Pinterest is a social bookmarking site with a virtual pinboard interface that visually showcases the user's interests. It offers a platform to discover recipes, style inspiration, home projects, and various ideas to try. With over 200 billion ideas, Pi...

Publishing Broadcasting Technology Web Services & Apps
HQ
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1K-5K
Founded
2010
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Quick Summary

Role Overview

This Principal Product Designer role focuses on integrating AI-native features into Pinterests core consumer and business products. You will join a dynamic team to tackle complex design challenges and shape the future of assistive tools on the platform.

Key Responsibilities

  • Establish strategic direction and product vision for complex design problems
  • Integrate AI-based assistive tools into the consumer product experience
  • Lead major design initiatives and communicate efforts across the organization
  • Define and refine the design quality bar through principles and systems
  • Mentor and support the professional growth of design team members
  • Bridge the gap between high-level product vision and technical execution

Requirements Snapshot

  • At least twelve years of experience shipping high-quality digital products
  • Deep expertise in LLMs prompt engineering and agentic system design
  • Proven track record in product strategy and design thinking methodologies
  • Strong communication skills to influence creative vision across departments
  • Experience mentoring designers and motivating cross-functional teams

Expected Impact

You will play a pivotal role in transforming Pinterest into an AI-augmented platform that enhances user creativity and simplifies complex workflows. By setting a high bar for design quality and mentoring talent you will ensure the long-term success and innovation of the core product suite.

A DesignJobs.World summary of the employer's posting, written to highlight scope, requirements, and fit (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

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, we’re 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 other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll 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.

Intro:

We’re looking for a highly adaptable Principal Product Designer, AI Native to join our Core design team. You’ll support projects and teams across the suite of Pinterest business products, ramping up quickly where help is needed most. You’ll collaborate with teammates in a dynamic environment, regularly tackling new design challenges.

 

What you’ll do:

  • Establish the strategic direction and product vision for our most complex problems, including the future of integrating AI based assistive tools into our consumer product, while bridging the gap between vision and execution
  • Be at the forefront of major design initiatives and broadcast the efforts of the design team across Pinterest
  • Set and refine the design quality bar, in partnership with design leadership, through our principles and design system
  • Be responsible for mentoring and helping grow talent within the team

 

What we’re looking for:

  • 12+ years with a track record of shipping inspiring well built experiences leveraging the latest technology
  • Experience with LLMs, prompt shaping/engineering, prototyping, and working on AI product flows and with agentic systems
  • A respected designer and product thinker that has mastered their craft and cohesive product strategy, ideally a renaissance person with endless curiosity
  • A mentor who is energized by growing others’ careers and knows how to motivate a team
  • An inspiring communicator that represents creative work, builds trust and influences alignment of our creative vision across marketing, PR and product
  • A portfolio demonstrating breadth and creativity and proven experience in product design, design thinking and product strategy
  • Bachelor’s degree in design, a related field or equivalent experience

 

Relocation Statement:

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


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.

 

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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
$210,161—$432,684 USD

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.
 
By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.
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