Lead Product Designer

Amplitude is the pioneer in digital analytics software. More than 1,400 customers, including Atlassian, Instacart, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour rely on Amplitude to power their digital products. Amplitude makes product data accessible to every member of an organization, empowering them to make data-driven decisions that fuel faster product innovation and growth. As an organization, we approach challenges with humility, take ownership of our contributions, and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables creation of better products, ability to solve complex problems, and drive more powerful solutions. In order to make diversity possible, we commit to striving to create an environment of inclusion: an environment focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection, which will allow employees of all backgrounds to feel the care they need to thrive. 

We are looking for a lead product designer to drive the vision, strategy, and execution to help our customers get their data into Amplitude and maintain its quality over time.  This role provides an opportunity to create massive business and customer impact because accurate, reliable data is instrumental to understanding usage and behaviors for optimizing digital experiences. Data connections team is focused on helping our customers get the most value out of our product intelligence suite by making it easy for them to get different kinds of data into Amplitude from a variety of different sources. We are focused on making the Amplitude platform extensible through real-time integrations with customer data stack and partners. We want to meet the customers where they are.

 As a Lead Product Designer, you will: 

• Work through design problems from beginning to end: translating business strategy, research insights, and data into ideas that form disruptive new products and features and improving and simplifying existing workflows.
• Sketch and prototype ideas to quickly assess viability, and design the workflows and fine-grained details of interactions.
• Use design thinking to drive cross functional alignment and use storytelling to inspire the team and the organization about the team’s vision and problems we are solving. 
• Partner closely with cross-functional (product, engineering, and go to market) teams to regularly ship experiences that drive concrete business outcomes and solve user pain points.
• Iterate based on feedback from the whole team and your cross-functional partners.
• Act as a leader and coach within the Product Design team, collaborating with other designers to make their work and the whole team better. 

You'll be a great addition to the team if you:

• Want to be part of creating amazing and innovative experiences that help solve real pain points for our customers while driving concrete metrics and business outcomes and know how to find the right balance.
• Use data and research to inform your design decisions and are able to assess the impact of your designs with quantitative and qualitative data.
• Are comfortable operating in a fast paced environment and ambiguous problem spaces Bonus: Worked in the B2B, data infrastructure space or tackled issues related to getting data into complex systems.
• Have a track record in using design thinking to drive cross functional alignment and storytelling.
• Have experience partnering with Product to envision long term product vision, strategy, and roadmap. 
• Bring a strong sense of empathy and a user-centric approach to design.
• Are excited to work in a positive, supportive environment and want to collaborate as part of a high-caliber, cross-functional team that helps you grow.
• Have a portfolio showing compelling and quality design as well as a track record of driving design forward.

Who We Are

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view. 

We care about the well-being of our team: along with excellent health insurance, we offer flexible time off, a monthly wellness stipend, a generous parental leave, a subscription to Modern Health, and a generous Learning & Development stipend. 

The Product: Amplitude is a digital optimization system – we help companies understand their users, rapidly release better product experiences, and ultimately grow their business. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers  companies to thrive in the digital era. 

Other fun facts about Amplitude: 

• Amplitude is a tech company to bet your career on in 2021, according to Business Insider.
• Amplitude went public via a direct listing in September 2021 and is now trading under the ticker AMPL. 
• Amplitude is the #1 product analytics solution according to G2.
• Founded in 2012, Amplitude is backed by Benchmark Capital, Sequoia Capital, IVP, Battery Ventures, Y Combinator and other top tier investors.
• We’re a global and fast-growing team! We’ve hired more than 300 people in 2021 and have operations in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Amsterdam, London, Paris and Singapore.
• Our mascot is the datamonster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

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.

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