Design Systems and Product Architecture Design Lead

Responsibilities

This is a unique opportunity to reestablish and evolve our design system with renewed alignment and commitment between design and engineering, ensuring a scalable, efficient, and high-quality user experience across our product suite. As a key cross-functional partner, you will work closely with Product, Engineering, and Brand to build a cohesive UI component library, interaction patterns, and design guidelines.
This role goes beyond maintaining a system—you will play a pivotal role in shaping the product platform approach for Amplitude’s core analytics products, working alongside engineering to ensure design and system architecture evolve together to meet business and user needs.
This is an exciting opportunity for a design leader who thrives in systems thinking, collaboration, and innovation, and who is passionate about rebuilding and scaling a design system from the ground up.

Proven experience leading design systems at scale, with a strong track record of rebuilding or evolving design systems in collaboration with engineering teams.
Deep expertise in systems thinking, usability, and accessibility, ensuring design solutions are scalable and performant.
Experience working across design and engineering, with an understanding of front-end frameworks, component libraries, and platform architecture.
Highly skilled in Figma, with experience managing design libraries, tokens, and documentation.
Ability to drive cross-functional collaboration, influencing design, engineering, and product teams to adopt systematized approaches.
Strong UX and UI design skills, with experience designing for complex enterprise applications.
Experience in front-end development, product management, or business analysis.
Background in scalable design system governance, balancing flexibility and consistency across multiple autonomous teams.
Passion for data-informed decision-making, incorporating user research and analytics into the design system evolution.