Job Description

As a Staff Designer on our Trust and Safety team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the integrity and safety of our user experience on Pinterest. Your work will focus on creating safe and welcoming experiences for both new and existing users who interact with our platform. You will develop solutions that protect our community and enhance user trust, managing key aspects of user safety including content moderation, user reporting mechanisms, and account safety features. This will involve reimagining how we communicate critical safety information and guidelines, potentially redesigning our safety protocols, and creating educational content that helps users understand how to interact safely and responsibly on Pinterest. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to lead projects aimed at improving our overall safety infrastructure, helping to ensure that Pinterest remains a trusted space for inspiration and creativity.

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 mission driven environment
• Work with and manage feedback from multiple stakeholders across eng, product, Trust & Safety, lLegal, operations, policy, and Design System 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 the design team through coaching and mentorship

What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years in Product Design (or equivalent)
• Experience working through legal compliance requirements transforming them into intuitive user experiences
• Energized by spearheading initiatives focused on user Trust and Safety
• 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 both visioning exercise and jumping into tactical UX flows for implementation
• 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

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.