Head of Product Design

Amplitude is an AI analytics platform that helps organizations build better products and digital experiences. The Head of Product Design will lead and grow a 15-person design team, set design strategy across Amplitude’s product suite, champion product and visual craft, and remain directly involved in solving complex UX challenges. The role also advocates for customers and creates coherence across autonomous product pods without becoming an approval bottleneck.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• You've designed for both technical and non-technical users, and can hold that tension without compromising the experience for either
• Experience with Analytics, Experimentation, or Developer tools