Principal Product Designer, Amplitude
$185-333k
OTE
Total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission) plus equity. Offers Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Product analytics company
Open for applications
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$185-333k
OTE
Total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission) plus equity. Offers Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a highly experienced design leader who thrives in tackling complex technical challenges, crafting cohesive user experiences, and driving measurable business outcomes through strategic design thinking
What the job involves
- Amplitude is seeking a Principal Designer to lead the user experience strategy for our Foundations team. In this role, you will define and drive holistic, strategic design solutions that shape the future of Amplitude’s product suite
- As a key partner to Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams, you will influence business and product strategy, ensuring a seamless and impactful experience for our users. Additionally, you will be an integral member of the design leadership team, championing design excellence and fostering collaboration across disciplines
- Strategic Design Leadership:
- Define and execute a user experience strategy that translates into a clear and actionable product roadmap
- Envision and articulate long-term design strategies that connect the dots across multiple problem areas, ensuring a cohesive and innovative product experience
- Work closely with Product and Research teams to anticipate industry trends, user needs, and market shifts, keeping Amplitude ahead of the curve
- Leverage design thinking and storytelling to align cross-functional teams around a shared vision
- Complex Problem Solving & Innovation:
- Navigate deeply technical and complex product areas, designing solutions that balance usability, scalability, and business impact
- Develop and advocate for customer-centric design approaches, ensuring that Amplitude’s platform is both powerful and intuitive for diverse user groups
- Drive data-informed design decisions, incorporating both quantitative insights and qualitative research to refine user experiences
- Lead the evolution of Amplitude’s data integration and extensibility solutions, ensuring seamless data flow across platforms
- Design for data visualization, ensuring that complex analytics and insights are effectively communicated through intuitive, engaging, and actionable interfaces
- Cross-Functional Influence & Collaboration:
- Act as a trusted design leader across Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams, ensuring alignment and execution of strategic goals
- Partner with leadership teams to influence product vision, strategy, and roadmap with a design-first perspective
- Advocate for the value of user research and usability testing, ensuring that user feedback continuously refines and improves the product experience
- Design Leadership & Mentorship:
- Act as a coach and mentor within the Product Design organization, elevating design quality, processes, and team impact
- Set the gold standard for design execution, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and innovation
- Share expertise across the organization, creating visibility into design’s strategic impact and fostering cross-functional engagement
Our take
Amplitude provides product analytics to help companies understand user behaviour. Product, marketing, and growth teams use Amplitude to discover and share insights about user engagement, retention, and revenue.
Amplitude’s user flows reveal which actions are the most commonly taken after users sign up, and which usually precede purchases made in-app, creating paths through the app. The behaviour of individual app users can be viewed with unlimited real-time activity feeds and user timelines.
Thousands of companies use Amplitude analytics including Microsoft, Under Armour, Intuit, Twitter, Bonobos, Peloton, and many more. In 2024, a securities fraud case was filed against Amplitude due to an IPO and stock share rise that was alleged to be artificially inflated before their downturn in 2022. Whilst this case is ongoing, Amplitude is still releasing new products and operating at full capacity.
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Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2021
$150m
LATE VC
May 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $336m
Company benefits
- We offer a generous 12-week parental leave for fathers/partners and 18-20 weeks for new birthing parents. This leave policy also provides flexible scheduling so you can spend time with your family and bond with your little one. Specific leave policy will vary by country
- We believe it’s important to unplug from work to reset and recharge. We offer flexible vacation time and unlimited PTO — and we encourage you to use it!
- We provide a monthly stipend for the wellness activity of your choosing, from gym memberships and fitness classes to acupuncture and massages
- Equity is an important component of compensation, but it should benefit you (not just the company). In addition to offering competitive RSU grants that vest quarterly over three years, our Employee Stock Purchase Plan gives employees the option to buy below market price
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Spenser Skates
(CEO)Previously worked as an Algorithmic Trader, Researcher at DRW Trading Group. They co-found Sonalight but are no longer working at the company.
Curtis Liu
(CTO)Previously worked as a Teaching Assistant at MIT and as a Software Engineer at Google. They co-found Sonalight but are no longer working at the company.
Jeffrey Wang
(Chief Architect)They studied computer science at university. They have extensive experience in software engineering prior to co-founding Amplitude.
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