Head of Product Design

Amplitude is moving fast, from product analytics to an AI-native platform with agents embedded across the product, used by over 4,700 companies. We are looking for a strong design leader with a builder mindset to lead a 15-person design team through the next phase of growth. This is a player-coach role. You manage and grow the team. You also stay in the actual work: elevating quality through feedback, pairing with designers on the hardest UX puzzles, and asking the right questions to unlock the crux of the problem. You'll know every product surface well enough to raise its quality — even if you don't own any single one end-to-end. Designers are embedded in autonomous pods and need to keep shipping fast. Maintaining speed without compromising on coherence and quality is the job. If that tension sounds like an exciting problem to solve rather than a contradiction to complain about, keep reading. WHAT YOU'LL DO Build the team. Hire, grow, and retain a high-performing design team, identifying people who will thrive and raise the bar at Amplitude. Develop them through direct, specific feedback. Help someone who's stuck get moving again. Set direction. Drive the design strategy for Amplitude's product suite: Core Amplitude, Statsig, and Wave (a proactive agent that helps teams build self-improving products). Help define how agents and humans work together in the same workflows. Champion craft. Strong visual design builds trust, clarity, and delight in the era of AI. Lead by example, elevating the quality of the product through exceptional design execution. Hold a high bar. AI makes it cheap to ship UI changes, which makes it easy for quality to erode quietly. Set a clear standard for what good looks like and enforce it without becoming an approval bottleneck. Stay in production. You believe that “the design” is what ships. Code is the material that brings the design to life. Push on the details, the papercuts, the edge cases. Speak for the customer. Show up in leadership conversations as the voice of the customer, pushing for solutions that genuinely serve their needs and reduce complexity. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - You've managed senior, independent IC designers and earned their respect through product and craft judgment.

• You've shipped products that moved real customer and business metrics, fast.
• You've created (not inherited) structure inside of a messy, high-growth organization.
• You've shipped AI-native experiences and use AI tools in your own practice today (we'll ask what you built and what you learned).
• Your portfolio shows both systems-level thinking and pixel-level craft.
• Bonus: You’ve designed for both technical and non-technical users, and can hold that tension without compromising the experience for either.
• Bonus: Experience with Analytics, Experimentation, or Developer tools.

• Not a pure IC role. You're accountable for a team of 15.
• Not design ops. Your job isn't to add rituals, templates, or governance.
• Not the approval committee. Pods keep moving; you create coherence without becoming the bottleneck.

Our Values

• Ownership: We take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared company success.
• Growth Mindset: We’re tenacious in the face of challenges and seek feedback in order to grow ourselves and others.
• Customer Centricity: We put the customer at the center of everything we do and are deeply committed to their success.

• We care a lot about product innovation. We've made significant investments in talent and infrastructure to build the most powerful AI analytics platform on the market.
• We invest in our people.

• We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
• We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.
• We’re a global and fast-growing team!

• Our mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom. Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

• Make sure your portfolio showcases your ability to drive design strategy and elevate product quality, with a focus on systems-level thinking and pixel-level craft.
• Be prepared to talk about your experience managing and growing high-performing design teams, with a focus on mentorship and feedback.
• Show a strong understanding of AI-native experiences and AI tools, with a focus on how you have applied these in previous roles.
• Highlight your ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, with a focus on speaking for the customer.
• Be prepared to discuss your approach to maintaining coherence and quality in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on championing craft and setting a high bar for quality.
• Research the company and the role, with a focus on understanding the company's values and mission.
• Practice your design skills, with a focus on visual design, user experience, and product strategy.