Principal Product Designer, AWS Search, Security, Observability, Governance

Are you a designer who makes to decide, who pressure-tests ideas by building them, not just speccing them? AWS is looking for a Principal Product Designer to define and own the design vision for observability — the products engineers and SREs rely on to understand, monitor, and operate systems at massive scale. In this role you'll turn ambiguous, deeply technical problems into clear design theses and simple, shippable experiences across dense data: dashboards, telemetry, alerting, and incident workflows. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering in the codebase, set the craft bar for the team, and coach senior designers to raise theirs. If you thrive on problems others haven't framed yet, build your way to the answer, and want your work to shape product strategy at scale, we'd love to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities

• Define the design vision and quality bar for your product area, translating business goals and competitive signals into clear, actionable design direction that aligns teams across the organization.
• Lead the design of complex, multi-surface experiences — including emerging platforms and AI-powered interactions — ensuring usability, accessibility, and coherence at every touchpoint.
• Partner with engineering, product management, legal, accessibility, and data science teams to navigate trade-offs between long-term customer needs, technical feasibility, and business priorities.
• Develop and evangelize scalable design systems and frameworks that raise consistency and craft standards across product surfaces, mentoring senior designers along the way.
• Communicate design strategy and rationale to executive audiences through compelling narratives that connect user experience outcomes to measurable business impact.

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