# Lise Statelman Lim > Product Design Manager at Pinterest Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/lise I'm a Product Design Manager at Pinterest building the Platform Design team — we bring UX expertise to internal teams to empower them to work efficiently to deliver our consumer promise of inspiration to realization. Most recently I was a Product Designer on this team focused on improving developer tools and workflows through design, UX research, and strategy. My personal mission is promoting health and happiness. In the workplace this manifests through caring about people — nurturing human connection, approaching challenges with curiosity and empathy, and ultimately building products that solve real problems, and are accessible and enjoyable. My expertise ranges from product thinking, brand and visual communication, user research, design systems, and high-fidelity prototyping. I employ evidence-backed reasoning in my work, and the double diamond process zooming in and out, and balancing business and user needs. I especially love user research as it allows me to talk directly to the customer — this is where I find the most insights happen. And I love collaborating with other passionate people! ## Work Experience ### Product Design Manager @ Pinterest Jan 2025 – Present Managing the Gestalt Core team, which maintains and extends Pinterest's design system to enable our teams to build cohesive, high-quality products across all platforms. ### Product Design Manager, Platform @ Pinterest Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 Shifted role into management to build the Platform Design team's strategy and scale the Design Foundations org. Our team brings customer-focus and UX expertise to internal tools (including Engineering, Trust & Safety, and Growth) to empower them to work efficiently and ultimately deliver to Pinterest's consumers. ### Senior Product Designer @ Pinterest Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States [See description below] ### Product Designer II, Platform @ Pinterest Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States Broadened scope to lead design on Pinterest's developer experience. Partnered with engineering platform teams to design or improve the UX of tools and workflows to enable their customers (developers) to do their best work. Ran user research to map the developer journey of 'Code to Deploy' and ML dev's 'Idea to Shipping' — uncovered user needs, pain points, and opportunity areas, which was shared with stakeholders across orgs to use in planning and prioritization cycles. Designed vision concepts of how Pinterest's developer tools could be centralized and unified via the internal design system, Gestalt and the open-source developer portal platform, Backstage. ### Product Designer @ Pinterest Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed and improved Pinterest's homegrown continuous delivery tool for teams migrating to Kubernetes, and an Observability dashboard tool for monitoring and on-call engineers. Took on PM responsibilities in lieu of dedicated support. Leveraged and extended design systems including Pinterest's Gestalt, and Ant. Incorporated regular customer feedback and ran research to understand needs and assess usability. Shipped multiple cycles of an Eng-wide Infra Tools CSAT survey to track satisfaction scores and gather qualitative feedback. ### Designer @ Self-Employed Jan 2010 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Working with various clients (in mental health and wellness, financial tech, and internet consumer products) on projects ranging from product design, branding, graphic design, illustration, and design/product consultation. ### Yoga Instructor @ Moxie Yoga Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States Teach power yoga with mindfulness instruction, subbing part-time at the various SF locations and occasionally LiveStream. ### Yoga Instructor @ CorePower Yoga Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Teach the C1 and C2 formats at CorePower Yoga part-time 200-hour teacher training certified in December 2018 in power vinyasa yoga (RYT-200) ### Contract Designer @ LendUp Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Designer @ LendUp Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Craft experiences for LendUp's digital products from concept to surface-level visual design. Create high-fidelity mockups of product pages and user interfaces including explicit interactive details and copywriting/micro-copy. Deliver marketing and internal creatives for digital and print purposes. Work across teams to identify new ways to improve the product and deliver necessary creative assets. Use research, analytics, qualitative and quantitative data to inform design decisions. Contribute front-end code including HTML and CSS. ### Designer @ LendUp Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Designer @ Kloudless, Inc. Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Berkeley, CA Lead the design experience of Kloudless Created comprehensive wireframes and 'pixel-perfect' mockups, and wrote HTML and CSS for the kloudless.com and developers.kloudless.com marketing pages, the developer tools, browser extensions (Chrome and Firefox), mobile app (iOS and Android), and more Designed the developer API and Gmail plugin experiences, including decision-making on user flows and interactions Collaborated closely with the engineering team, head of marketing, and CEO Illustrated graphics for the web products, blog, print material and social media Designed the logo and branding system along with brand guides (Kloudless rebranded in 2018) Crafted business cards, banner signage, t-shirts, jackets, pens, stickers, paperclips, and handled print production Managed marketing design intern providing creative direction and mentoring Photographed team portraits with Canon DSLR and studio lighting ### Lead Designer @ Media Armor, Inc Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Boston, MA • Worked with C-level management to rebrand corporate identity, reporting directly to CEO & CTO • Overhauled brand with new logo, business cards, letterhead, website, and marketing collateral • Created banner ad creatives for web and mobile both internally and for various clients/partners • Designed and built website on Wordpress CMS and designed client-facing user interface with FLOT data visualization technology ### Co-Founder @ RocketBean Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Boston, MA • Launched a design/development startup for mobile games • Established company brand and logo, implementing corporate identity across all collateral • Created original art assets and animations purposed for 1 mobile game ### Graphic Designer @ The Patriot Ledger Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Quincy, MA • Worked on editorial design for daily issues of the newspaper as part of in-house design team • Created illustrations for stories, designed promotion and information graphics, doctored images in Photoshop, and crafted full page layouts ## Education ### Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Graphic Design Northeastern University ### Curtis High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lise-statelman - Portfolio: https://lisestatelman.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/lise JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lise/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13