Staff Product Designer, Closeup

Pinterest is on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and they are seeking a Staff Product Designer to lead Closeup, one of their highest leverage consumer surfaces. This role involves ownership of a core experience used by millions, collaborating with senior partners to drive product outcomes through design and ensure a cohesive user experience across various platforms.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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