Lead Product Designer, Foundations

Amplitude is seeking a Lead Product Designer to lead design efforts for their core Analytics product, Foundations, focusing on automation and simplification of data visualization and insights.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design efforts across complex, cross-functional initiatives—from problem framing to polished execution.
• Define and drive the design strategy for foundational experiences (navigation, workflows, layout, data visualization, and more) that span across the Amplitude platform.
• Elevate the quality and consistency of the customer experience by scaling reusable patterns, workflows, and systems in partnership with our design systems team.
• Collaborate deeply with leadership across Product, Engineering, and Research to shape product direction, resolve complexity, and influence priorities.
• Drive alignment across teams through compelling storytelling, facilitation, and research synthesis that surfaces key insights and opportunities.
• Mentor and guide other designers, growing craft, strategic thinking, and business influence across the org.

Requirements

• A strong portfolio demonstrating experience leading end-to-end design for complex enterprise products, including platforms or systems work.
• A proven ability to drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces, align cross-functional partners, and deliver elegant solutions to technical and human problems.
• Experience designing and shipping features powered by AI or data visualization tools is a plus.
• A bias for action and iteration—you move quickly to learn, and ship often to drive impact.
• Clear, persuasive communication and storytelling skills.
• A track record of mentoring designers, driving best practices, and contributing to design culture.

Key Skills

• Strong portfolio demonstrating experience leading end-to-end design for complex enterprise products, including platforms or systems work.
• Proven ability to drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces, align cross-functional partners, and deliver elegant solutions to technical and human problems.
• Experience designing and shipping features powered by AI or data visualization tools is a plus.
• Bias for action and iteration—you move quickly to learn, and ship often to drive impact.
• Clear, persuasive communication and storytelling skills.
• Track record of mentoring designers, driving best practices, and contributing to design culture.

Benefits

• Salary range for this role is $185,000 to $278,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission, based on location).
• Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans.
• 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), home office equipment (annual), and much more.
• Excellent Parental benefits including: 12-20 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 and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only).
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
• Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.