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Salary: USD 265,000 - 398,000 / annual
Amplitude is a leading AI analytics platform serving over 4,700 customers including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square. The company is ranked #1 across multiple G2 categories and is seeking a Principal Product Designer to lead design efforts for Wave, Amplitude's proactive product agent that helps teams build self-improving products.
Wave analyzes behavioral data and code to surface signals, turns them into opportunities for approval and shipping, and tracks outcomes to continuously improve products. This is an early-stage product with significant room for impact.
In this role, you will lead end-to-end design efforts across ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from problem framing through polished execution. You'll define and drive design strategy for Wave's core experiences including the opportunity feed, signal review and evidence, spec and plan creation, and outcome tracking. You'll collaborate deeply with leadership across Product, Engineering, and Research to shape product direction, resolve complexity, and influence priorities, with regular presentations to executive leadership.
You'll engage directly with customers to develop conviction in and iterate on design direction, partner with Product Marketing on go-to-market launches, and drive alignment across teams through compelling storytelling and research synthesis. You'll mentor and guide other designers, growing craft and strategic thinking across the organization. The role offers the option to ship front-end code directly to product and provide design support for other product areas as needed.
Amplitude's design culture is distinctive: designers ship hundreds of PRs monthly, build new skills, and prototype directly off the codebase. The executive team moves fast—this velocity is rare in a public company. Designers have significant ownership, their opinions are highly respected, and they have a say in product strategy. You'll work closely with a team including Jacob (Principal Product Manager), Meredith (Lead Designer), Gab (Chief Product Officer), Fayyaz (Principal Designer), Anita (Sr. Principal Designer), and Jingshu (Sr. Principal Designer), plus 12+ multi-talented designers across the broader design org.
Amplitude was founded in 2012, went public via direct listing in September 2021 (ticker $AMPL), and has offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of product design experience
- Proven ability to drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces, align cross-functional partners, and deliver elegant solutions to technical and human problems
- Strategic, visionary perspective with a history of driving innovative product design forward
- Builder's mindset: balancing high standards for design craft with high-velocity production shipping
- Strong portfolio demonstrating experience leading end-to-end design for complex or ambiguous products, including platforms or systems work
- Experience designing and shipping features powered by AI
- Bias for action and iteration: move quickly to learn, incorporate feedback from many perspectives, and ship often to drive impact
- Clear, persuasive communication and storytelling skills
- Track record of mentoring designers, driving best practices, and contributing to design culture
