About the role
What will you do at Amazon?
Quick is a business productivity product where people connect their real work —
their email, calendars, documents, chat, and enterprise data — and let Quick act
across all of it on their behalf. The desktop app is where that promise becomes
tangible: it is the persistent, always-on surface where people do their deepest
work, orchestrate complex tasks, and trust Quick to operate with full context
across everything on their machine and in the cloud.
We are looking for a Principal UX Designer to own the end-to-end design of the
Quick desktop app. This is the surface that determines whether Quick becomes
indispensable — the place professionals open first, keep running all day, and
rely on to stay ahead of their workload. You will define how people interact
with an AI that can see their local files, connect to their enterprise tools,
run tasks in the background, and surface the right information at the right
moment — and you will set the design standards that make that breadth of
capability feel coherent, trustworthy, and effortless rather than overwhelming.
Key job responsibilities
Own the end-to-end design of Quick's desktop app as a single, coherent
experience, setting the design direction and standards for every surface a user
touches, from first launch to daily habit.
Design how people connect and orchestrate their real work tools — email,
calendars, documents, chat, and enterprise data — so Quick can act across all of
them with the right context, permissions, and confidence.
Design the agentic surfaces where Quick works on the user's behalf: background
tasks, multi-step workflows, proactive suggestions, and autonomous actions,
making the breadth of what Quick can do feel trustworthy and in control rather
than unpredictable.
Design the information architecture and interaction patterns that let users move
fluidly between conversations, files, knowledge, and task management without
losing context or momentum.
Design for power users and knowledge workers specifically, where depth, speed,
keyboard fluency, and persistent workspace matter more than simplification, and
where structured, discoverable entry points coexist with open-ended AI
interaction.
Partner deeply with Product, Engineering, and Platform teams to translate the
unique capabilities of a native desktop app — local file access, background
execution, system-level integration, cross-device continuity — into experiences
that feel seamless rather than technical.
Set and evangelize desktop design standards across Quick, and raise the bar for
how quality, coherence, and craft show up across every surface of the app.
Mentor and provide design leadership to other designers, acting as the design
authority on the desktop experience and the connective tissue between desktop,
web, and mobile.
About the team
You will join the UX team behind Quick, working alongside designers, PMs,
Scientists and engineers building a business productivity product that people
trust with their most sensitive work. This role owns the admin portal, the
control plane where organizations govern what Quick can do. It is a space where
the right patterns are still being invented, and where your design leadership
sets the standard for how compliance and governance show up across the product.
Basic
Qualifications
- - Extensive years of design experience, with a portfolio
- that demonstrates principal-level scope and impact.
- - Experience designing and delivering complex, end to end software products, not
- just individual features or screens.
- - A track record of owning ambiguous, systemic design problems across many
- connected surfaces.
- - Demonstrated ability to influence product direction and design standards
- across multiple teams.
- - Excellent systems thinking and communication skills, with a history of
- aligning cross-functional partners around a shared design vision. Preferred
Qualifications
- - Experience designing enterprise products, especially admin,
- permissions, security, or governance surfaces.
- - Experience designing for both end users and administrators, balancing
- individual usability with organizational control.
- - Familiarity with designing for AI systems that act on a user's behalf,
- including consent, oversight, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
- - A track record of setting design standards and mentoring other designers as a
- design authority.
- Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis
- of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
- Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely
- and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to
- standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively
- and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional
- customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company
- policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship
- with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties
- and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company
- policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and
- respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and
- safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los
- Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified
- applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our
- customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or
- adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the
- interview or onboarding process, please visit
- https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations
- [https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations] for more
- information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please
- contact your Recruiting Partner.
- The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package
- will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final
- compensation will be determined based on factors including experience,
- qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits
- including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &
- AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health
- Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy
- Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits
- [https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits].
- USA, CA, Santa Clara - 180,400.00 - 244,000.00 USD annually
- USA, NY, New York - 180,400.00 - 244,000.00 USD annually
- USA, WA, Seattle - 164,000.00 - 221,800.00 USD annually
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