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.
Our Commitment to Inclusion:
Skills Required
- 12+ years shipping product experiences leveraging modern technologies
- Experience with LLMs, prompt shaping/engineering, prototyping, AI product flows, and agentic systems
- Proven portfolio demonstrating breadth, creativity, product design, design thinking and product strategy
- Ability to establish strategic direction and product vision for complex problems
- Experience setting and refining design quality standards and working with design systems
- Mentoring and growing design talent; leadership experience
- Strong communication skills to represent creative work and influence cross-functional alignment
- Bachelor's degree in design or related field, or equivalent experience
Pinterest Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Pinterest and has not been reviewed or approved by Pinterest.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is considered competitive in core technical roles, with clearly defined base, bonus, and RSU components. Vesting schedules and pay elements are articulated clearly, supporting visibility into total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include substantial paid parental leave globally alongside fertility and family‑building benefits, adoption assistance, and dedicated caregiver supports. Communications also highlight a phased return‑to‑work approach.
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Flexible Benefits — PinFlex enables role‑dependent hybrid/remote work with home‑office, connectivity, and commuter support, plus the option to work internationally for a limited period with approval. Time away is reinforced by a paid company shutdown and generous vacation framing.
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What We Do
Pinterest is the visual inspiration platform people around the world use to shop products personalized to their taste, find ideas to do offline and discover the most inspiring creators. Today, more than 460 million people come to the platform every month to explore and experience billions of ideas that have been saved. We’re proud to help people to discover and do what they love.
