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Role Description

We are looking for a Staff Product Designer to lead Closeup, one of Pinterest’s highest leverage consumer surfaces. 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.

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.

Qualifications

• 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 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.

Requirements

• 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

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.

Compensation

At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. The base salary range for this position is $158,765 — $326,870 USD. 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.

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.