Head of Product Design
About The Position
Amplitude is looking for 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 challenging UX puzzles, and asking the right questions to unlock the crux of the problem. You will need to understand every product surface well enough to raise its quality, even if you don't own any single one end-to-end. The role involves maintaining speed without compromising on coherence and quality as designers are embedded in autonomous pods and need to keep shipping fast.
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 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
- Build the team: Hire, grow, and retain a high-performing design team, identifying people who will thrive and raise the bar at Amplitude. Develop them through direct, specific feedback and help them overcome challenges.
- Set direction: Drive the design strategy for Amplitude's product suite, including Core Amplitude, Statsig, and Wave. Help define how AI agents and humans collaborate within workflows.
- Champion craft: Lead by example in elevating the quality of the product through exceptional design execution, focusing on visual design to build trust, clarity, and delight in the AI era.
- Hold a high bar: Set and enforce clear standards for design quality without becoming an approval bottleneck, especially as AI makes UI changes cheaper and can lead to quality erosion.
- Stay in production: Focus on the shipped product, pushing on details, papercuts, and edge cases to ensure high quality.
- Speak for the customer: Represent the customer's voice in leadership conversations, advocating for solutions that meet their needs and reduce complexity.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits packages
- 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, and more
- Excellent Parental benefits including: 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)
- Equity, benefits and other forms of compensation
- Unlimited PTO (Washington state)
- 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary) (Washington state)
- Medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans (Washington state)
- Company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan (Washington state)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
