Principal Product Designer: AI for Drug Discovery

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s AWS Applied AI Solutions is seeking a Principal Product Designer to own end-to-end UX across the portfolio—from regulated clinical research to computational drug discovery. You will define how scientists work with AI teammates, and you will prove concepts with working prototypes that guide engineering.

You will lead design direction across multiple products, mentor designers, and collaborate with product management, applied science, and engineering to ensure a cohesive user experience

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a practicing product or user experience designer.
• Experience designing data-dense enterprise, scientific or technical software.
• Experience owning design direction for multiple products or a product portfolio simultaneously.
• Experience designing products built on large language models or multi-step automated agents, including how such a system behaves when it fails.
• Experience designing for regulated clinical research, drug discovery, or an equivalently regulated scientific domain.
• Experience building high‑fidelity interactive prototypes.
• Experience presenting design work to senior business leadership.
• Bachelor's degree, or 10 years of professional design experience in lieu of a degree.

Responsibilities

• Own and defend the user experience point of view across the portfolio, working with product management, applied science, engineering and architecture.
• Define the interaction model for software that acts on a person’s behalf.
• Direct and build high‑fidelity working prototypes, and use them as the shared specification for product and engineering.
• Mentor and develop other designers across the portfolio.

Skills

UX design expertise

Data-dense software design

Portfolio design direction

Prototyping high-fidelity

Regulated domain experience

Executive presentation

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Education

Bachelor's degree or 10 years of professional design experience in lieu of a degree

Job description

Amazon’s AWS Applied AI Solutions is seeking a Principal Product Designer to own end-to-end UX across the portfolio—from regulated clinical research to computational drug discovery. You will define how scientists work with AI teammates, and you will prove concepts with working prototypes that guide engineering.

You will lead design direction across multiple products, mentor designers, and collaborate with product management, applied science, and engineering to ensure a cohesive user experience