Head of Product Design

Amplitude, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amplitude, Inc. seeks a strong design leader to guide a 15-person team and stay hands-on to elevate quality across the product suite. You will drive the design strategy for Core Amplitude, Statsig, and Wave, shaping how AI agents and humans work together in workflows.

You will ship AI-native experiences, mentor engineers and designers, and raise the bar for craft and coherence in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• Senior, independent IC designers respected for product and craft judgement.
• Shipped products with measurable customer and business impact quickly.
• Created structure inside a fast-growing organization.
• Delivered AI-native experiences and used AI tools in practice.
• Portfolio shows systems-level thinking and pixel-level craft.
• Bonus: design for both technical and non-technical users.
• Bonus: experience with Analytics, Experimentation, or Developer tools.

Responsibilities

• Build the team: hire, grow, and retain a high-performing design team with direct feedback.
• Set direction: drive the design strategy for Amplitude's product suite and define agent-human workflows.
• Champion craft: elevate design quality and execution across surfaces.
• Hold a high bar: establish standards and prevent quality erosion.
• Stay in production: ship design through code and attention to detail.
• Speak for the customer: advocate for customer needs in leadership conversations.

Skills

Team management

UX strategy

AI-native design

Systems thinking

Pixel-level craft

Portfolio development

Cross-functional collaboration

Design leadership

Job description

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 5,200 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com.

As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do.

Amplitude is moving fast, from product analytics to an AI-native platform with agents embedded across the product, used by over 4,700 companies. We are 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. You manage and grow the team. You also stay in the actual work: elevating quality through feedback, pairing with designers on the hardest UX puzzles, and asking the right questions to unlock the crux of the problem. You'll know every product surface well enough to raise its quality — even if you don't own any single one end-to-end.

Designers are embedded in autonomous pods and need to keep shipping fast. Maintaining speed without compromising on coherence and quality is the job. If that tension sounds like an exciting problem to solve rather than a contradiction to complain about, keep reading.

What you'll do

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. Help someone who's stuck get moving again.

Set direction. Drive the design strategy for Amplitude's product suite: Core Amplitude, Statsig, and Wave (a proactive agent that helps teams build self-improving products). Help define how agents and humans work together in the same workflows.

Champion craft. Strong visual design builds trust, clarity, and delight in the era of AI. Lead by example, elevating the quality of the product through exceptional design execution.

Hold a high bar. AI makes it cheap to ship UI changes, which makes it easy for quality to erode quietly. Set a clear standard for what good looks like and enforce it without becoming an approval bottleneck.

Stay in production. You believe that “the design” is what ships. Code is the material that brings the design to life. Push on the details, the papercuts, the edge cases.

Speak for the customer. Show up in leadership conversations as the voice of the customer, pushing for solutions that genuinely serve their needs and reduce complexity.

What we're looking for

• You've managed senior, independent IC designers and earned their respect through product and craft judgment.
• You've shipped products that moved real customer and business metrics, fast.
• You've created (not inherited) structure inside of a messy, high-growth organization.
• You've shipped AI-native experiences and use AI tools in your own practice today (we'll ask what you built and what you learned).
• Your portfolio shows both systems-level thinking and pixel-level craft.
• Bonus: You’ve designed for both technical and non-technical users, and can hold that tension without compromising the experience for either.
• Bonus: Experience with Analytics, Experimentation, or Developer tools.

What this is not

• Not an executive role that manages up and delegates down. You're deep in the work.
• Not a pure IC role. You're accountable for a team of 15.
• Not design ops. Your job isn't to add rituals, templates, or governance.
• Not the approval committee. Pods keep moving; you create coherence without becoming the bottleneck.

Our values:

At Amplitude, our values guide how we show up for one another and for our customers:

• Humility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
• Ownership: We take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared company success.
• Growth Mindset: We’re tenacious in the face of challenges and seek feedback in order to grow ourselves and others.
• Customer Centricity: We put the customer at the center of everything we do and are deeply committed to their success.

We care about the well-being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.

Some of our benefit programs include: