Product Designer Ii, Design Innovation

Pinterest Pinterest · Consumer · Seattle, WA · Design

Product Designer II on the Design Innovation team at Pinterest. This role focuses on evolving the product design language, crafting intuitive experiences, and exploring new opportunities for innovation, including AI-powered experiences. The designer will use AI tools to accelerate their workflow while maintaining critical thinking and ownership. They will collaborate with cross-functional partners, incorporate insights from research and AI trends, and contribute to design reviews.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design product experiences—systematically, interactively, and visually—with a high bar for craft and consistency across the Pinterest product ecosystem.
  2. Partner with Design Innovation teammates and cross-functional partners to evolve our product design language and bring it to life in key product surfaces and features.
  3. Explore and prototype new interaction patterns and end-to-end flows that make Pinterest feel more modern, memorable, and uniquely “Pinterest.”
  4. Use AI tools to accelerate parts of your workflow—from early concept exploration and competitive/visual research to generating variations, content, and structured design artifacts—while validating outputs for quality, alignment with our brand, and user needs.
  5. Collaborate closely with engineering, product management, and research to develop impactful, user-centric, and data-informed solutions; work with engineers throughout implementation to ensure high-quality execution.

Skills

Required

  • Experience designing for consumer products
  • strong visual and interaction design skills demonstrated in a portfolio of shipped or in-progress work
  • Ability to design within and extend a design system, balancing consistency with thoughtful innovation across surfaces and platforms
  • Demonstrated experience using AI tools (such as LLMs or design/creative AI tools) to augment your design workflow—for example, to explore concepts, structure information, or generate and refine content—paired with a clear approach to validating accuracy, quality, and brand alignment
  • Strong product thinking and systems mindset
  • Great communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design decisions, tradeoffs, and how AI fits into your process to cross-functional partners at different levels
  • High attention to detail and a sense of ownership over the quality and cohesion of the product experience, including accessibility and inclusive design considerations
  • Collaborative, low-ego working style with a growth mindset

Nice to have

  • inclusive, accessible experiences

What the JD emphasized

  • AI tools to accelerate parts of your workflow
  • validating outputs for quality, alignment with our brand, and user needs
  • using AI tools to augment your design workflow
  • clear approach to validating accuracy, quality, and brand alignment