AmazonSenior Product Designer, Kiro
Amazon is hiring a Senior Product Designer, Kiro in Seattle, United States. It pays $138k-$186k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
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- Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- The posting mentions AI agents among its tools and skills.
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- Posted in the last few days.
AI in this role
We're looking for a Senior UX Designer to help shape this experience. You'll initially focus on Kiro IDE, a surface with distinct design challenges and significant room to define the experience. You'll build deep understanding of the developer audience while leading hands-on design work: concept framing, interaction patterns, and shipping real improvements that inform longer-term product direction.
The design challenges here are unlike traditional developer tools: How should a developer setup their agentic workflows? How do we improve spec-driven development? How do you build trust in AI that writes and validates code on your behalf?
You excel in the early, ambiguous stages of design: concept modeling, ecosystem mapping, user story development, and framing the experience before pixels are ever pushed. You know how to set up a problem space so that the right solutions emerge. You are equally strong in execution, iterating rapidly and prototyping in whatever tool fits the moment. You adapt your approach based on the problem, the timeline, and the team. We value designers who bring their own perspective and working style. What matters is the quality of thinking and the impact of the outcome, not conformity to a single methodology.
You will collaborate with product teams, engineering teams, and executive leadership to identify and execute on opportunities, serving as the voice of the developer with senior leadership.
If you want your design work to shape how millions of developers build software with AI, we'd love to hear from you.
Key job responsibilities
- Go deep on audience understanding: conduct and synthesize research to build rich mental models of how developers think, work, and adopt agentic tools
- Lead concept design and early-stage framing: ecosystem maps, concept models, user stories, journey frameworks, and experience principles that set the foundation for product direction
- Own and drive the end-to-end design process for major features
- Shape the UX of agentic workflows including spec-driven development, autonomous mode, parallel agents, hooks, and correctness verification
- Iterate rapidly and prototype at the right fidelity, from paper sketches and concept storyboards to high-fidelity interactive prototypes, choosing the right tools and methods for each challenge
- Partner with product management and engineering to influence strategy through strong design rationale and customer advocacy
- Mentor junior designers and define scalable design patterns that raise the bar across the team
About the team
You'll join a team of designers and researchers embedded directly in the Kiro product organization. We sit alongside product and engineering as one team, which means design has a seat at the table from strategy through shipping. We have dedicated UX research support and work in close collaboration with our researchers, so design decisions are grounded in real customer insight, not assumptions.
Our team covers the full Kiro product suite: IDE, CLI, Web, Mobile, Kiro Crew, the Kiro agent, and platform capabilities. We support each other's growth, share work openly, and believe that the best design comes from people who bring diverse perspectives and their own way of working. If you thrive in an environment where you have real ownership, close partnership with research, and the autonomy to choose how you approach a problem, you'll feel at home here.
Basic qualifications
- 7+ years of design experience
- 3+ years of working with or evaluating AI systems experience
- Experience in a variety of design, wire-framing, and prototyping tools
- A portfolio that demonstrates deep audience understanding and early-stage design thinking: concept models, ecosystem maps, user stories, experience frameworks, and how you translate research into design strategy, not just polished final UI
- Experience designing complex, multi-step workflows across multiple platforms or surfaces, with strong information architecture and interaction design skills
Preferred qualifications
- Experience designing developer tools, IDEs, command-line products, or open-source developer experiences
- Track record of flexibly adapting design process and methods based on the problem at hand
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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, WA, Seattle - 137,800.00 - 186,400.00 USD annually
How we rate this
Senior Product Designer, Kiro at Amazon rates 66 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.
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- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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