Staff Product Designer, Growth
Job Summary
This role as a Staff Designer on Pinterest's Social Experiences team involves defining product strategy, leading design projects, and mentoring other designers. The candidate should have extensive experience in product and UX design, excellent communication skills, and the ability to influence team direction. Responsibilities include working in fast-paced, iterative environments and collaborating across multiple teams to create meaningful social sharing features. The position emphasizes impact-driven design, experimentation, and a growth mindset.
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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.
As a Staff Designer on our Social Experiences team, you will be an integral part of the company’s overall growth strategy - being able to work on building the best possible social experiences to connect users in meaningful ways. This includes owning our sharing flows and the formats users can share. You will also play a key role in mentoring other designers on the team and driving vision for the future of social on Pinterest.
What you’ll do:
- Partner closely with your product and engineering counterparts to define the product strategy, roadmap, process, and culture
- Be comfortable in a fast paced, iterative, experimental, and data driven environment
- Work with and manage feedback from multiple stakeholders across Growth and Core teams, as well as engineering, product and design leadership
- Uphold and inspire a high level of design execution throughout the team
- Grow the people on your team through coaching and mentorship
What we’re looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree in design, a related field or equivalent experience
- 5+ years in Product Design (or equivalent)
- Experience leading complex user and metrics inspired projects
- Excellent product thinking and UX design skills
- Great communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate your design decisions and the problems they’re solving
- Ability to set the direction for the team by creating clear and impactful strategies
- Drive results by holding the team accountable for efficient, high-quality execution of goals
- A well-versed storyteller with strong presentation skills
- Experience in balancing speed and quality with a focus on driving impact through both optimizations and 0-1 product development
- High level of self-awareness with a growth mindset that is focused on impact
- Strong portfolio that demonstrates outstanding design skills and a passion for experimentation, data and systems thinking a plus
- Experience working on social features, metrics-inspired design (growth teams), a plus
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/quarter 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.
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