# Principal Product Designer, AI Native, Core

**Company:** [Pinterest](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pinterest)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $210k – $433k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, Prompt Engineering, Prototyping, Ai Product Flows, Agentic Systems, Product Design, Design Thinking, Product Strategy, Design Systems
**Posted:** 2026-07-02

> Principal Product Designer on Pinterest's Core team, establishing vision for complex AI-native consumer experiences and assistive tools. Requires 12+ years shipping inspiring products, LLM/prompt engineering experience, strong mentorship, and strategic product thinking.

## Job Description

## 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.

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