Head of Product Design
About The Position
Amplitude is seeking a strong design leader with a builder mindset to lead a 15-person design team through the next phase of growth. This is a player-coach role where you will manage and grow the team, while also staying involved in the actual work by elevating quality through feedback, pairing with designers on UX challenges, and asking the right questions. The goal is to maintain speed without compromising on coherence and quality as designers are embedded in autonomous pods and need to keep shipping fast. The role involves driving the design strategy for Amplitude's product suite, including Core Amplitude, Statsig, and Wave, and defining how AI agents and humans work together in workflows. A strong emphasis is placed on championing craft, elevating product quality through exceptional design execution, and holding a high bar for design standards, especially in the era of AI. The role requires staying engaged with production, pushing on details and edge cases, and acting as the voice of the customer in leadership conversations.
Requirements
- Managed senior, independent IC designers and earned their respect through product and craft judgment.
- Shipped products that moved real customer and business metrics, fast.
- Created (not inherited) structure inside of a messy, high-growth organization.
- Shipped AI-native experiences and use AI tools in your own practice today.
- Portfolio shows both systems-level thinking and pixel-level craft.
Nice To Haves
- Designed for both technical and non-technical users, and can hold that tension without compromising the experience for either.
- Experience with Analytics, Experimentation, or Developer tools.
Responsibilities
- Hire, grow, and retain a high-performing design team, identifying people who will thrive and raise the bar at Amplitude.
- Develop team members through direct, specific feedback and by helping those who are stuck get moving again.
- Drive the design strategy for Amplitude's product suite: Core Amplitude, Statsig, and Wave.
- Help define how agents and humans work together in the same workflows.
- Lead by example, elevating the quality of the product through exceptional design execution.
- Set a clear standard for what good design looks like and enforce it without becoming an approval bottleneck.
- Stay in production, pushing on the details, the papercuts, and the edge cases.
- Show up in leadership conversations as the voice of the customer, pushing for solutions that genuinely serve their needs and reduce complexity.
Benefits
- Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans
- 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period up to $2,000 annually
- Flexible time off
- Paid holidays
- Generous stipends for wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), new hire home office equipment
- 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
- Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support
- Back-up Child Care support
- Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy sessions
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
