Principal UX Designer, Amazon Quick

Amazon; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a Principal UX Designer to own the end-to-end design of the Quick desktop app, shaping how users interact with AI across local files, enterprise tools, and cloud data.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, and Platform teams to establish design standards, mentor others, and create coherent, trustworthy experiences that empower knowledge workers and power users.

Qualifications

• Extensive years of design experience at principal level.
• Experience delivering complex, end-to-end software products.
• Ability to influence product direction and design standards across teams.
• Strong systems thinking and cross-functional communication.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design of Quick's desktop app across surfaces and workflows.
• Design how users connect and orchestrate emails, calendars, documents, chat, and data.
• Design agentic surfaces for background tasks, multi-step workflows, and proactive suggestions.
• Define information architecture and interaction patterns across conversations, files, knowledge, and tasks.
• Design for power users and knowledge workers with depth, speed, and keyboard fluency.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Platform teams to translate desktop capabilities into seamless experiences.
• Set and evangelize desktop design standards across Quick.
• Mentor designers and act as the design authority for desktop, web, and mobile.

Skills

Principal-level design

End-to-end product design

Systemic design thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Job description

Job ID: 10529041 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Quick is a business productivity product where people connect their real work — their email, calendars, documents, chat, and enterprise data — and let Quick act across all of it on their behalf. The desktop app is where that promise becomes tangible: it is the persistent, always-on surface where people do their deepest work, orchestrate complex tasks, and trust Quick to operate with full context across everything on their machine and in the cloud.

We are looking for a Principal UX Designer to own the end-to-end design of the Quick desktop app. This is the surface that determines whether Quick becomes indispensable — the place professionals open first, keep running all day, and rely on to stay ahead of their workload. You will define how people interact with an AI that can see their local files, connect to their enterprise tools, run tasks in the background, and surface the right information at the right moment — and you will set the design standards that make that breadth of capability feel coherent, trustworthy, and effortless rather than overwhelming.

Key job 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 — email, calendars, documents, chat, and enterprise data — 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 rather than unpredictable.
• 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 — local file access, background execution, system-level integration, cross-device continuity — 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.

About the team

You will join the UX team behind Quick, working alongside designers, PMs, Scientists and engineers building a business productivity product that people trust with their most sensitive work. This role owns the admin portal, the control plane where organizations govern what Quick can do. It is a space where the right patterns are still being invented, and where your design leadership sets the standard for how compliance and governance show up across the product.

Basic Qualifications

• Extensive years of design experience, with a portfolio that demonstrates principal-level scope and impact.
• Experience designing and delivering complex, end to end software products, not just individual features or screens.
• A track record of owning ambiguous, systemic design problems across many connected surfaces.
• Demonstrated 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise products, especially admin, permissions, security, or governance surfaces.
• Experience designing for both end users and administrators, balancing individual usability with organizational control.
• Familiarity with designing for AI systems that act on a user's behalf, including consent, oversight, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
• A track record of setting design standards and mentoring other designers as a design authority.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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