Lead UX Designer, Desktop Productivity App

Amazon Web Services (AWS); New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in New York is seeking a Principal UX Designer to own the end-to-end design of the Quick desktop app. You will define how users interact with AI, orchestrating local and cloud work, and set design standards that feel coherent, trustworthy, and effortless.

You will mentor other designers, partner with Product, Engineering, and Platform teams, and raise the bar for quality and craft across surfaces of the app.

Qualifications

• Extensive design experience with a portfolio showing principal-level scope and impact.
• Experience delivering complex end-to-end software products.
• Track record owning ambiguous, systemic design across many connected surfaces.
• Ability to influence product direction and design standards across multiple teams.
• Excellent systems thinking and communication skills, with a history of aligning cross-functional partners around a shared design vision.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design of Quick's desktop app as a single, coherent experience, setting the design direction and standards for every surface a user touches, from first launch to daily habit.
• Design how people connect and orchestrate their real work tools so Quick can act across all of them with the right context, permissions, and confidence.
• Design the agentic surfaces where Quick works on the user's behalf: background tasks, multi-step workflows, proactive suggestions, and autonomous actions, making the breadth of what Quick can do feel trustworthy and in control.
• Design the information architecture and interaction patterns that let users move fluidly between conversations, files, knowledge, and task management without losing context or momentum.
• Design for power users and knowledge workers specifically, where depth, speed, keyboard fluency, and persistent workspace matter more than simplification, and where structured, discoverable entry points coexist with open-ended AI interaction.
• Partner deeply with Product, Engineering, and Platform teams to translate the unique capabilities of a native desktop app into experiences that feel seamless rather than technical.
• Set and evangelize desktop design standards across Quick, and raise the bar for how quality, coherence, and craft show up across every surface of the app.
• Mentor and provide design leadership to other designers, acting as the design authority on the desktop experience and the connective tissue between desktop, web, and mobile.

Skills

Design leadership

End-to-end design

Cross-functional collaboration

Systems thinking

Communication

Influence product direction

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in New York is seeking a Principal UX Designer to own the end-to-end design of the Quick desktop app. You will define how users interact with AI, orchestrating local and cloud work, and set design standards that feel coherent, trustworthy, and effortless.

You will mentor other designers, partner with Product, Engineering, and Platform teams, and raise the bar for quality and craft across surfaces of the app.