About this role
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 .
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 deliveri