Lead Product Designer, Design Systems

Job Description

Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform. More than 1,800 customers, including Atlassian, Chick-fil-A, Marks & Spencer, NBCUniversal, PayPal, Shopify, and Under Armour rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. With Amplitude, teams can understand what product features are working, where users are getting stuck, and what actions lead to the right outcomes. 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’re looking for a product designer to evolve and scale Amplitude’s design system by driving the shared components, patterns, and design thinking practices and methodologies that increase the efficiency of our designers and developers. You’ll have the opportunity to influence the product direction and visual language of Amplitude working hand-in-hand with designers, engineers, and product managers across product development to ensure they have the building blocks needed to build and improve high quality, consistent, and accessible experiences for our users.

What does this team do:

Design systems team is focused on helping our product development teams build a world-class user experience through the development and integration of components, patterns, tools, and infrastructure to enable product teams to move faster, make changes more rapidly and safely, and build to a higher standard of quality.

As a Product Designer on Design Systems, you will:

• Guide and govern Amplitude’s design language at a systems level - own the visual and interaction design for new and existing components, abstract commonly used patterns, and document best practices and usage guidelines
• Partner with design system engineers, discussing tradeoffs between flexibility and control and ensuring components and patterns are built to spec and account for edge cases
• Establish a robust, usable Figma component library, building and maintaining up-to-date components and their variants
• Work closely with product teams to ensure the Amplitude design system is supporting their current and future needs.
• Collaborate with product designers to build and document the reusable components and patterns that serve as the building blocks for Amplitude’s workflows and analyses.
• Influence and educate the product teams by leading design discussions and mentoring other designers on how to best leverage the system in their workflows

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

• You demonstrate systems thinking with a cohesive strategy toward implementing and maintaining design tokens, guidelines and principles, and component libraries.
• You have experience working closely with engineering to build components that are atomic, composable, and reusable and/or partnering with engineering to implement high quality product experiences.
• You’re familiar with WCAG Accessibility 2.0 Standards, and care about building components that are inclusive and accessible for all.
• You care about the under-the-hood details that can make the difference between interfaces that are performant and accessible, versus those that merely look good.
• You approach design collaboratively and proactively communicate to ensure alignment and transparency.
• Your portfolio demonstrates an ability to develop a well-considered, robust Figma component library and/or showcases compelling, quality design and a strong visual and interaction design skill-set.

The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform – 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:

• G2: #1 product analytics solution and #3 best software product
• Business Insider: A top tech company to bet your career on
• Fast Company: #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world
• Amplitude went public via a direct listing in September 2021 and is now trading under the ticker AMPL.
• 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 have offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and employees around the world.
• 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.