Design Director, Amplitude
Foundations & Growth
$210-440k
+Equity
Product analytics company
Open for applications
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$210-440k
+Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- Have experience building and scaling a design organization around core values of humility, ownership, and a growth mindset
- Have a track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional product experiences for both technical and non-technical users
- Have hired, mentored, and managed designers across multiple skill levels, fostering professional growth and team excellence
- Are a relentless advocate for customers, thriving in customer interactions and inspiring teams through real-world insights
- Have a strong portfolio showcasing a range of product design work, including web and mobile applications
- Operate well in ambiguous environments, crafting vision and strategy in a fast-evolving industry
- Are a player-coach, balancing big-picture strategy with hands-on design leadership when necessary
- Bring a pragmatic yet visionary approach, evangelizing and executing a clear design strategy with focus and clarity
What the job involves
- Amplitude is seeking a Design Director to lead product design for our core analytics, data management products and growth teams
- This pivotal role will shape the user experience across multiple product areas, ensuring a seamless and impactful journey for both technical and non-technical users
- . As a key member of the Product Development leadership team, you will report to the VP of Design and collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams to drive strategic design excellence
- This is an opportunity for a visionary design leader who thrives in creating clarity, navigating complex domains, and delivering world-class product experiences that balance innovation with usability
- Leadership & Team Development
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a talented team of product designers, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and growth
- Partner closely with PM, Engineering, and GTM leaders to define product strategy and ensure alignment with business objectives
- Establish and uphold high design quality standards, ensuring consistency and excellence across Amplitude’s suite of products
- Act as a player-coach, balancing high-level strategic vision with hands-on design inspiration when necessary
- Drive organization-wide enthusiasm for design’s strategic impact on the business
- Strategic Design Execution
- Define and influence the design strategy for Amplitude’s Foundations and Growth teams, ensuring alignment with business goals
- Advocate for customer-centric, data-informed design solutions that prioritize usability and deliver measurable business value
- Establish and refine design processes to enhance efficiency, quality, and innovation
- Data-Informed Design & Innovation
- Develop frameworks for leveraging Amplitude’s analytics tools to drive iterative design improvements
- Train designers to effectively interpret data and apply insights to user experience enhancements
- Foster a culture of experimentation and data-driven decision-making across the design team
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Act as the primary design leader collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams to bring Amplitude’s vision to market
- Ensure seamless alignment across product areas, delivering a cohesive and impactful user experience
- User Research & Testing
- Champion user research and usability testing, ensuring data and customer feedback continuously refine product design
- Promote methodologies that prioritize user needs, leading to more intuitive and effective experiences
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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