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

We are looking for a Principal UX Designer to define and own the end-to-end design strategy for AWSs security observability and agentic AI product portfolio. This is a high-impact IC role with significant organizational influence. You will partner directly with VP-level Product and Engineering leaders to shape products used by millions of security practitioners worldwide. The ideal candidate combines elite visual craft with deep technical fluency operates as an architect of systemic solutions rather than a feature designer and has a track record of shipping design systems that scale across complex B2B enterprise environments.

Key job responsibilities
1. Define the long-term UX vision and roadmap for AWS Security products (GuardDuty Security Hub Detective Inspector IAM) in partnership with senior product and engineering leadership
2. Architect and govern a unified design system across the security portfolio ensuring consistency accessibility and scalability for high-density data interfaces
3. Lead the design of agentic AI interfaces including intent-driven system actions guided investigations and human-in-the-loop approval workflows for automated security operations
4. Drive design-as-code practices: build production-quality prototypes using modern stacks (React TypeScript) to collapse design-engineering feedback loops
5. Establish UX quality benchmarks and lead critique sessions across the organization elevating design maturity and craft standards globally
6. Mentor and develop a team of senior designers providing technical guidance and career development
7. Represent Design in executive reviews (VP SVP) with data-driven recommendations and clear strategic narratives
8. Navigate complex stakeholder matrices to build consensus across multiple product teams operating under a shared UX umbrella

A day in the life
Your morning might start with a competitive signal that youre framing into a design implication for the teams weekly brief. By mid-morning youre in a working session with an applied scientist pressure-testing the interaction model for an AI-generated observability insight before it goes into prototyping. Youre not waiting for a PM to write the brief. Youre shaping the problem definition. Afternoons might be a prototype review with a customer gathering direct signal on whether the attack path visualization reads as actionable or overwhelming. Or its a cross-domain sync where youre reconciling interaction patterns between domains so that users moving between products dont feel the seams. At this level your output isnt screens its the design intelligence that sharpens how the entire team operates. Youre setting the bar for craft bringing structure to ambiguous problem spaces and making the case for design at the product definition layer not after it.

About the team
The SSOG design team shapes the experience of AWSs most technically demanding products Security Observability Governance and Search. We cover a portfolio that includes GuardDuty Security Hub CloudWatch OpenSearch and next-generation agentic surfaces like Security Workbench and Horizon. Our work spans the AWS Console standalone web UIs and increasingly the IDE where security observability and governance signals are converging into the developer workflow itself.

We operate as an AI-native builder team. Every designer works directly alongside engineering in shared workflows using tools like Kiro and our own SSOG Brain a multi-agent design intelligence system we built to accelerate research synthesis user flow generation and UX quality review across domains. We dont hand off specs and wait. We prototype run experiments and push toward production.

The problems were solving are genuinely hard: how do you make agentic security investigations legible to a CISO How do you design trust and explainability into systems that act autonomously How do you unify five distinct products into a cohesive operational experience without flattening what makes each one useful If thats the kind of challenge that pulls you in youll find your people here.

1. 12 years of professional experience in UX/Product Design with at least 4 years at Staff/Principal level (or equivalent) at a top-tier technology company
2. Demonstrable portfolio of shipped enterprise-scale B2B products with emphasis on data-intensive or security-domain interfaces
3. Deep expertise in design systems architecture governance component libraries and cross-team adoption at scale
4. Strong technical fluency: ability to read review and contribute to production code (HTML/CSS/JS React preferred)
5. Experience designing for complex data visualization dashboards threat detection network topology log analysis
6. Track record of influencing product strategy at the organizational level not just feature-level execution

1. Direct experience in cybersecurity cloud security or observability platforms
2. Hands-on experience with AI/ML product design particularly agentic patterns
3. Experience building from 01 and establishing product-market fit for new product lines
4. Published thought leadership or recognized contributions to the design community
5. Proficiency with AI-assisted design and development tools (Cursor Claude Code Replit v0)

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 Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA Santa Clara - 180300.00 - 244000.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 180300.00 - 244000.00 USD annually
USA WA Bellevue - 164000.00 - 221800.00 USD annually