Head of Product Design

About the role

This is a player-coach role within Amplitude, a leading AI analytics platform. The successful candidate will lead a 15-person design team and be responsible for driving the design strategy for Amplitude's product suite: Core Amplitude, Statsig, and Wave.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Show up in leadership conversations as the voice of the customer, pushing for solutions that genuinely serve their needs and reduce complexity.

Requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

• Experience managing senior, independent IC designers and earning their respect through product and craft judgment.
• Experience shipping products that move real customer and business metrics, fast.
• Experience creating structure inside of a messy, high-growth organization.
• Experience shipping AI-native experiences and using AI tools in your own practice.
• A portfolio showing both systems-level thinking and pixel-level craft.
• Bonus: Experience designing for both technical and non-technical users.
• Bonus: Experience with Analytics, Experimentation, or Developer tools.

Skills

• Strong visual design skills.
• Ability to elevate the quality of the product through exceptional design execution.
• Experience setting and enforcing a high bar for quality.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Experience with AI-native experiences and tools.
• Experience managing a design team and driving strategy.
• Experience with both technical and non-technical user needs.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans.
• 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period up to $2,000 annually.
• Flexible time off, paid holidays, and more.
• Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, commuter transit/parking, learning and development, new hire home office equipment, and much more.
• Excellent parental benefits including 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, and Back-up Child Care support.
• Mental health and wellness benefits including no-cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy sessions.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).

Pay

• Colorado range: $285,000 - $427,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
• New York City salary range: $317,000 - $476,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
• San Francisco Bay Area of California salary range: $317,000 - $476,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
• California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area salary range: $285,000 - $427,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
• Washington salary range: $285,000 - $427,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Schedule

• Unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary).
• Medical, dental, and vision PPO and CDHP plans.

Company Information

• Founded in 2012, Amplitude went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and is now trading under the ticker $AMPL.
• We are a global and fast-growing team with offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
• Our mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs.
• We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
• We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO).
• We are aware of recruitment fraud and encourage candidates to exercise caution.