Head of Product Design

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Amplitude is hiring a senior player-coach Head of Product Design to lead and develop a 15-person design organization while remaining deeply involved in complex product and UX work. The role owns design strategy and craft quality across Core Amplitude, Statsig, and Wave, with a particular focus on coherent AI-native workflows. The leader will support autonomous product pods, establish effective structure in a high-growth environment, and advocate for customer needs in executive discussions. Success requires proven people leadership, exceptional visual and systems design judgment, experience shipping metric-driving products, and hands-on AI product experience.

This is a highly senior leadership role combining responsibility for a 15-person team with hands-on accountability for product quality across multiple fast-moving product surfaces. It demands strong organizational influence, deep craft expertise, and the ability to resolve difficult AI UX and product-strategy tradeoffs without slowing delivery.

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.

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.
• 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.

What this is not

• Not an executive role that manages up and delegates down. You’re deep in the work.
• 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.

At Amplitude, our values guide how we show up for one another and for our customers:

• Humility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
• 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 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.

Some of our benefit programs include:

• 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, 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).

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.