Design Systems and Product Architecture Design Lead

Design Systems and Product Architecture Design Lead

About the Role

Amplitude is looking for a Design Systems and Product Architecture Design Lead to redefine and drive the vision, strategy, and implementation of our design system across desktop and mobile. 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.

What You’ll Do

Redefine & Reestablish the Design System

• Lead the rebuilding of Amplitude’s design system, creating a unified, scalable framework that aligns design and engineering for seamless implementation.
• Establish Figma libraries, enabling teams to create consistent, reusable UI components that work cross-platform (Web, iOS, Android).
• Define design tokens, interaction patterns, and visual guidelines, ensuring consistency across Amplitude’s growing product suite.
• Continuously audit and refine our UI to identify inconsistencies, propose solutions, and push the visual design system forward.

Strengthen Design & Engineering Collaboration

• Partner deeply with engineering leadership to align design and system architecture, ensuring the design system integrates efficiently into front-end development workflows.
• Collaborate on building foundational product platform components that improve scalability, performance, and accessibility across Amplitude’s analytics products.
• Work closely with product teams to embed design system thinking into their workflows, enabling faster, more consistent product development.
• Advocate for best practices in componentization, ensuring UI components are robust, maintainable, and aligned with engineering standards.

Drive Accessibility & Inclusivity

• Develop accessible, inclusive UI components that adhere to WCAG standards, ensuring usability across a diverse range of users.
• Establish color, type, and iconographic systems that balance brand expression with functional clarity across different devices and contexts.
• Provide a framework for accessibility in both the design and development process, ensuring accessibility is a core part of Amplitude’s product experience.

Champion & Scale Design System Adoption

• Build a contribution model, enabling multiple product teams to contribute components while maintaining system integrity and governance.
• Evangelize the design system across Amplitude, educating teams on best practices, adoption strategies, and system evolution.
• Present the design system’s mission and roadmap to internal stakeholders, including designers, engineers, product managers, and leadership teams.
• Lead documentation efforts, ensuring the design system remains accessible, well-maintained, and easy to use for all teams.

Mentor & Lead

• Provide design leadership and guidance, helping teams apply shared patterns while identifying opportunities for new patterns and components.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement within the design and engineering teams.
• Inspire and mentor designers and engineers, guiding system adoption and design best practices across the organization.

What We’re Looking For

Experience & Expertise

• 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.
• A portfolio showcasing design systems work, including contributions to component libraries, interaction patterns, and scalable UI frameworks.

Bonus Skills

• 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.

Why Amplitude?

This role is a unique opportunity to reestablish and redefine Amplitude’s design system in close partnership with engineering and product leadership. As the Design Systems and Product Architecture Design Lead, you’ll have a pivotal role in shaping the product platform for our core analytics products, ensuring a unified, scalable, and accessible experience across our ecosystem.

If you're excited about building, scaling, and evolving a design system that enables fast, efficient, and high-quality product development, we'd love to hear from you!