Product Design Manager II, Ad Formats

Pinterest • San Francisco, CA

27d • Remote

About The Position

Pinterest is looking for a player–coach Product Design Manager with a passion for craft, strategy, learning, and leading with empathy. You’ll join the Ad Formats Design team, managing the Performance Pod: leading a team of IC designers and partnering closely with PM, EM, PMM, and Research to shape conversion-oriented ad formats that drive meaningful performance. Your work will focus on improving long-term, high-quality conversion outcomes, avoiding ad fatigue and short-term mechanical lifts, while elevating the Pinner shopping and decision-making experience through both leading the team and take on hands-on design yourself.

Requirements

• Proven track record of envisioning, shipping, and iterating on digital ad products in close partnership with product management and engineering.
• Has a learner and builder mindset: Able to quickly onboard emerging AI tools and implement them appropriately in the full product development process with a focus on decision quality, craft and efficiency.
• Mentors and educates team members.
• Ability to balance the needs of multiple stakeholders and lead multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Clear, confident communication skills: you can explain complex design decisions and tradeoffs in ways that align cross-functional partners.
• Meticulous attention to detail and a high bar for quality across flows, states, and edge cases.
• Experience designing within and extending design systems.
• Deep understanding of layout, typography, color, and other core interaction and information design principles.
• High level of self-awareness and a growth mindset , you seek feedback and use it to grow your craft and impact.
• 7+ years in Product Design (or equivalent), 2 years of management experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in design, a related field or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision and point of view for the Ad Formats Performance Pod — spanning consumer-facing ad experiences, advertiser-facing creation tooling, ad formats creation, and AI automation adoption and growth — and bring others along to think bigger and innovate
• Operate as a player-coach: alongside managing a team of four designers, stay hands-on and own executional design work yourself, with or without additional IC support
• Partner closely with your product and engineering counterparts to define product strategy, roadmap, process, and culture for the Ad Formats Performance Pod
• Be comfortable in a fast-paced, data-driven, experimental environment — without ever losing sight of the big picture and true user needs
• Uphold and inspire a high level of design execution across the team, through both mentorship and hands-on demoing across projects
• Grow the people on your team through coaching and mentorship
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate how your team works, and pioneer new ways to use AI in the team's process and within the product experience

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager