product
Posted 2 hours agoHead of Product Design
at Amplitude
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
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.
- Drive the design strategy for Amplitude's product suite: Core Amplitude, Statsig, and Wave (a proactive agent that helps teams build self-improving products).
- Not design ops. Your job isn't to add rituals, templates, or governance.
Requirements
- Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences.
- With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever.
- Amplitude is moving fast, from product analytics to an AI-native platform with agents embedded across the product, used by over 4,700 companies.
- 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.
- 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).
- Experience with Analytics, Experimentation, or Developer tools. What this is not
- Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2.
- 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.
Benefits
- Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions.
- Bonus: You’ve designed for both technical and non-technical users, and can hold that tension without compromising the experience for either. Bonus:
- We care about the well-being of our team: We offer 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 (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), new hire home office equipment, and much more Excellent Parental
- benefits including: 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support
- We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
- This role is eligible for equity,
- benefits and other forms of compensation.
- Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. 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)
- Salary range: $317,000 - $476,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- California 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)
- Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans.
- Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.
Contact
- Learn more at amplitude.com .
- Any emails from the Amplitude recruiting team will come from an @ amplitude.com email address.
Additional details
- Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams.
- As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values.
- We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do.
- We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.
- 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.
- 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.