Principal UX Designer - Desktop AI & Enterprise UX

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 244,000; Full time

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. This role will define interactions across email, calendars, documents, chat, and enterprise data, ensuring a coherent, trustworthy experience with AI integration.

You will mentor designers, set desktop design standards, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Platform teams to create a seamless, enterprise-grade desktop app that users rely on daily.

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.

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.

Skills

Portfolio of design work

End-to-end design

Systems thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Influencing product direction

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a Principal UX Designer to own the end-to-end design of the Quick desktop app. This role will define interactions across email, calendars, documents, chat, and enterprise data, ensuring a coherent, trustworthy experience with AI integration.

You will mentor designers, set desktop design standards, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Platform teams to create a seamless, enterprise-grade desktop app that users rely on daily.