Pinterest has hired two former Apple executives

Pinterest is pinning its vision for the future on a couple of Apple employees with ecommerce backgrounds. The social bookmarking service announced Tuesday that it has hired Bob Baxley, a longtime design director at Apple, and Michael Lopp, who worked at Apple for nine years before moving on to Palantir Technologies in 2010. Baxley will take over as Pinterest’s head of product design and Lopp will be the company’s head of engineering. Baxley joined Apple in 2006 from Yahoo and helped spearhead the effort to bring Apple’s online store up to modern web standards and later led the design of the Apple Store app. While at Apple, Lopp led part of the engineering team that worked on the Mac OS X Server, before leading engineering efforts for the online store. “As we build a visual discovery engine, we’re thrilled to announce the addition of two industry leaders to the growing Pinterest team,” Pinterest said in a statement. Lopp will be responsible for scaling Pinterest’s infrastructure. Baxley will be “charged with creating the interface and experience that helps tens of millions of Pinners save and discover the things they love.”