Amazon
Principal UX Designer, Amazon Quick
$164K–$244K
Santa Clara, CA +2 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA
Seattle, WA
New York, NY - Experience
- Extensive years of design experience; no numeric duration stated.
About the job
Own the end-to-end design and standards for Amazon Quick’s desktop app, including how users connect tools and work with AI-powered tasks and workflows.
What you'll do
- Lead desktop experience design and define standards across Quick surfaces.
- Design interactions for connected work tools, information navigation, and agentic tasks, including background workflows and autonomous actions.
- Partner with cross-functional teams, influence design direction, and mentor designers.
What they ask for
- Extensive design experience and a portfolio demonstrating principal-level scope and impact.
- Experience designing and delivering complex, end-to-end software products.
- Track record owning ambiguous, systemic design problems across connected surfaces.
- Ability to influence product direction and standards across teams; strong systems thinking and communication skills.
Nice to have
- Enterprise product design, especially admin, permissions, security, or governance; experience balancing end-user and administrator needs.
- Familiarity with AI systems acting on users’ behalf, including consent, oversight, and human-in-the-loop patterns; experience setting standards and mentoring designers.
Pay
180,400.00 - 244,000.00 USD annually (base salary); 180,400.00 - 244,000.00 USD annually (base salary); 164,000.00 - 221,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
AI focus
Design AI interactions involving local files and enterprise tools, background tasks, multi-step workflows, proactive suggestions, and autonomous actions, with appropriate context, permissions, oversight, and user trust.
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