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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.
As a Design Technologist / UX Engineer, you will drive initiatives that empower designers to build modern world-class user experiences for our Pinners and Advertisers with high productivity, performance and quality. We’re looking for someone who bridges design and engineering, has a growth mindset and isn’t afraid to give their opinion on how we can improve. You’ll work intimately with a small innovative design team and you’ll have the opportunity to find creative solutions to thought-provoking problems while helping to ensure both design fidelity as well as technical feasibility.
What you’ll do:
- Contribute to strategic technical direction for our design systems’s cross platform libraries
- Design solutions that address problems at both current and future scale
- Work with designers, product managers, management, internal business partners, and other subject matter experts.
- Ensure a seamless connection between design and engineering by maintaining design/UX visions through code, applying technical architecture and data
- Work within the design system and help evolve the system to meet the needs of our users; Contribute to the continuous improvement of design standards, guidelines, and reusable components
- Mentor team members and participate actively in design and code reviews, team processes and decision making
- Use AI to create, develop, and distribute high fidelity prototypes for product alignment and user testing
- Build tooling that helps designers and engineers leverage AI capabilities in their daily workflows
What we’re looking for:
- Minimum 5 years of experience as a design technologist, engineer, or UX engineer
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Proven track-record of delivering highly reliable technical solutions that scale
- Deep experience working in mobile native UI development (Android SDK, Kotlin, UIKit, Swift)
- Experience developing a design system or leading design system initiatives
- Experience breaking down big challenges into smaller decisions framed as trade-offs (e.g. time vs. scope)
- Track record of delivering large, cross-functional projects across multiple organizations and being a champion of developer experience, performance and quality
- Excellent communication and collaboration with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Basic awareness of accessibility principles with a commitment to further learning
- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow for relevant outputs.
- Strong track record of human-in-the-loop best practices through critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work (e.g., testing, source-checking, data validation, peer review)
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 recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times / year and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
#LI-REMOTE
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:
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San Francisco, CA, United States
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