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Principal Product Designer, AI/ML Services

Amazon.com Inc
  • Seattle, WA
    3 days ago

    Job Description

    AWS AI Services is seeking a Principal UX Designer to lead some of the most strategic and complex design initiatives across our AI/ML portfolio, including Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.

    This is an individual contributor role for a designer who operates beyond the boundaries of a single product or feature area. You will tackle large-scale, highly ambiguous customer problems that span services, workflows, and organizations, establish experience vision and strategy where the path forward is not yet defined, and influence product direction across AWS AI Services.

    This is a particularly exciting moment to work in this space. Generative AI and agents are changing not only what developers can build, but how software itself is built, evaluated, deployed, and operated. Many of the interaction models for these technologies are still emerging. You will have the opportunity to work on capabilities at the frontier of AI development and help define patterns that do not yet have established answers.

    You will work at the intersection of AI platform strategy, developer experience, and emerging interaction models, translating sophisticated technical capabilities into experiences that help builders move from experimentation to production. You'll partner with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Applied Science, Research, and UX to identify systemic customer problems, create alignment around a future-state vision, and turn that vision into shipped experiences.

    This is hands-on design role. You'll move fluidly between strategy and execution, framing problems, conducting and using customer research, mapping complex systems and workflows, prototyping new interaction models, defining end-to-end experiences, and working directly with engineering teams to ship them.

    Key job responsibilities

    Lead strategic, portfolio-level design initiatives. Take on some of the most consequential and ambiguous customer problems across Bedrock, AgentCore, and the broader AWS AI/ML portfolio. Many of these challenges will cross product and organizational boundaries, requiring you to see the larger system, define a clear experience vision, and bring multiple teams together around a path forward.

    Define the future of AI developer experiences. Help shape how builders create, evaluate, deploy, govern, and operate generative AI applications and agents on AWS. In a space where many interaction patterns are still being invented, you'll have the opportunity to establish new models for how developers work with AI and influence experiences that span the console, APIs, SDKs, and CLI.

    Shape the technology, not just the interface. Great developer experiences often begin well below the UI. You'll go deep into the architecture, APIs, data models, and developer workflows behind the products you design, working directly with senior engineers and technical leaders to make them more intuitive. That may mean influencing the structure of an API, challenging an abstraction that exposes too much underlying complexity, or rethinking terminology and defaults before they become difficult to change. You should be comfortable engaging Engineering at this level and advocating for a different technical solution when a technically valid one creates a poor customer experience.

    Bring clarity to ambiguous problems. You'll often begin with an emerging technology, an unmet customer need, or a broad strategic opportunity rather than a defined set of requirements. Use customer insight, systems thinking, prototyping, and strong product judgment to make the problem concrete, explore what is possible, and help teams converge on the right direction.

    Set the quality bar through hands-on craft. This is a Principal role where you will continue to design and ship. Take on complex experiences yourself, explore alternatives and tradeoffs, prototype rapidly, validate ideas with customers, and carry the work from early concept through detailed execution. Move quickly while maintaining a high bar for interaction design, visual craft, and the details that make technical products easier to understand and use.

    Create coherence across the portfolio. Look beyond individual products to identify where customers encounter fragmentation across AWS AI Services. Establish shared interaction models, frameworks, and patterns that solve those problems systematically and help Bedrock, AgentCore, and adjacent services feel like a connected builder experience.

    Influence across organizational boundaries. Many of the problems you'll own cannot be solved by one team. Build trusted relationships with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Science, and UX, bring customer evidence and design thinking into strategic decisions, and create alignment when teams have different technical constraints, priorities, or points of view.

    Raise the design bar beyond your own work. Your impact as a Principal designer should extend beyond the experiences you personally ship. Provide thoughtful critique and direction, develop approaches that other teams can reuse, mentor designers tackling complex technical problems, and help elevate the quality of design across the broader organization.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
    • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agentsunmatched
    • Concreteunmatched
    • Customer Experienceunmatched
    • Customer/Client Researchunmatched
    • Data Modelingunmatched
    • Emerging Technologyunmatched
    • Identify Issuesunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Organizational Development/Managementunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Product Designunmatched
    • Product Engineeringunmatched
    • Prototypingunmatched
    • Requirements Managementunmatched
    • Scientific Researchunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
    • User Experience Design (UXD)unmatched
    • User Interface Designunmatched
    • User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched

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