Principal UX Designer, Amazon Quick

Amazon is hiring a Principal UX Designer, Amazon Quick in New York, United States. It pays $180k-$244k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

Level's read on this job

Level rates this role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
Tools and skills the posting cites include ux design, interaction design and desktop app design.
Level classifies it as an executive role.
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AI in this role

Own the end-to-end design of Quick's desktop app, focusing on agentic AI surfaces and multi-step workflows.

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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 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.

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

How we rate this

Principal UX Designer, Amazon Quick at Amazon rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Principal UX Designer, Amazon Quick is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is $180k-$244k a year.
The role is based in US, NY, New York.
The job was posted on September 3, 2026.
Seniority: executive.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

UX DesignInteraction DesignDesktop App DesignInformation ArchitectureAgentic Workflows

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Tell me about a project where ux design was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where interaction design was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where desktop app design was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where information architecture was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where agentic workflows was part of your work. What did you do?

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