Pinterest Snags Longtime Apple Alums To Head Up Engineering And Design
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Social pinboarding site Pinterest today announced that it has picked up two notable new hires, both longtime Apple alums, to head up its Engineering and Design departments. All that funding is not going to waste, it seems. Michael Lopp, who was previously a director of engineering at Palantir, will head Engineering; Bob Baxley, the former Director of Design for the Apple Online Store, will become the Head of Product Design and Research.
Now at Pinterest, his focus will be on leading the technical team focused on product development, and scaling an infrastructure that includes over 30 billion Pins, the company tells us.
Before Apple, he worked at Yahoo Search, where he led the design of Yahoo Answers and more. Before that, he was the lead UI designer for ClarisWorks.
At Pinterest, he will be tasked with overseeing the product design and research teams, which are creating the Pinterest interface and experience that reaches the company’s “tens of millions” of users.