Principal UX Designer: Desktop Experience Lead

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s Quick desktop design team seeks a Principal UX Designer to own the end-to-end design of the Quick desktop app. You will define how professionals interact with AI that sees local files, connects to enterprise tools, and runs in the background with confidence.

Lead design standards across desktop, web, and mobile, mentor other designers, and partner with Product, Engineering, and Platform to deliver a coherent, trustworthy experience that helps users stay ahead of their workload.

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.

Job description

Amazon’s Quick desktop design team seeks a Principal UX Designer to own the end-to-end design of the Quick desktop app. You will define how professionals interact with AI that sees local files, connects to enterprise tools, and runs in the background with confidence.

Lead design standards across desktop, web, and mobile, mentor other designers, and partner with Product, Engineering, and Platform to deliver a coherent, trustworthy experience that helps users stay ahead of their workload.