Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Amplitude sits in a mature SaaS category where product differentiation often comes from making complex behavioral data approachable. Featuring a Lead Product Designer focused on Analytics highlights the ongoing demand for design leaders who can turn dense workflows, navigation, and visualization into coherent product experiences across a platform, not just within a single feature area.
For SaaS career development, this kind of scope builds durable strengths: designing for repeatable, reusable patterns; balancing craft with system-level thinking; and using customer learning loops to guide iteration. Work that touches foundational experiences tends to sharpen judgment around information hierarchy, cross-product consistency, and how design decisions influence adoption and perceived value, all transferable to other B2B analytics, platform, or AI-assisted products.
This role is best suited to designers who prefer ambiguous problem spaces where framing is as important as execution, and who are comfortable influencing direction with product and engineering partners. It will fit someone ready to lead end-to-end initiatives, communicate through storytelling and synthesis, and raise quality through design systems thinking while mentoring others without needing formal management as the primary path.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI):
Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.
About the Role
Amplitude is looking for an exceptional Lead level Product Designer to lead efforts across Amplitude’s core Analytics product. We’ve been industry leaders in the data analysis and visualization space and have first in class tools in behavioral analytics. We are taking the next step in this journey by automating and simplifying the ability for Amplitude customers to use their data to get transformational visualizations and insights to transform their work, products, and businesses.
Our work ranges from iterating to completely transforming our core user experience across our entire stack to improve usage and drive value.
This is a role for a bold systems thinker. Someone that thrives at the intersection of high craft, and pushing the boundaries of the latest technology – all while frequently shipping and learning from customers.
What You’ll Do
- 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.
What You’ll Bring
- 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.
Who you'll work with
Some of the builders you’ll work closely with include Tyler (Director, Product Design), Chris (VP of Product), Nirmal (Director, Engineering), and Anita (Sr. Principal Designer), and Jingshu (Principal Designer).
And of course you'll also collaborate with an incredible team of 12+ multi-talented designers across our broader design org and many many other talented PMs and Engineers all shaping what's next in our space.
What we offer
We care about the well-being of our team and offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers. Benefits include:
- 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).
Oh and one last note...
Please treat this job description as a starting point for a conversation. No human (AI-augmented or not) will embody everything in this job description. If this role sounds interesting, we’d love for you to apply even if you don’t think you’re the perfect fit.
This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.
Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $166,000 - $250,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in New York City, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in New York City. New York City salary range: $185,000 - $278,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $185,000 - $278,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range: $166,000 - $250,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range: $166,000 - $250,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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