Principal UX Designer, AWS Search, Security, Observability, & Governance

What you'll do

• Set the OpenSearch UX vision and roadmap with senior leadership; establish design patterns and quality benchmarks across the portfolio.
• Design agent-guided onboarding and experiences across web, IDE, MCP, and CLI; prototype and contribute to production code.
• Lead research and design reviews, represent Design in executive discussions, and mentor senior designers.

What they ask for

• 12+ years of professional UX/Product Design experience, including at least 4 years at Staff/Principal level or equivalent at a top-tier technology company.
• Portfolio of shipped enterprise-scale B2B products, especially data-intensive interfaces.
• Deep design systems expertise and ability to read, review, and contribute to production code.
• Experience with complex data visualization, organizational-level product strategy influence, and leading or mentoring senior designers.

Nice to have

• Direct experience in search, observability/APM, or cloud infrastructure; hands-on AI/ML product design, particularly agentic patterns.
• Experience building new products, multi-surface design, AI-assisted design tools, open-source communities, or enterprise migration/onboarding.

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)

Tools

HTML/CSS/JS, React, TypeScript, OUI, Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro, v0

AI focus

Designs agentic AI experiences and patterns, including progressive autonomy, approval gates, confidence signals, reasoning displays, and human-in-the-loop workflows; uses AI tools for research synthesis, user-flow generation, and UX quality review.