Description
As a Design Technologist / UX Engineer at Pinterest, 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.
You will work intimately with a small innovative design team and have the opportunity to find creative solutions to thought-provoking problems while helping to ensure both design fidelity and technical feasibility.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to strategic technical direction for our design systems' 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
Requirements:
- 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
- Track record of delivering large, cross-functional projects across multiple organizations
- 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
- Strong track record of human-in-the-loop best practices through critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work