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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.\n\n### Key job responsibilities\n1. 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.\n2. Architect and govern a unified design system across the security portfolio, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and scalability for high-density data interfaces.\n3. 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.\n4. Drive \"design-as-code\" practices: build production-quality prototypes using modern stacks (React, TypeScript) to collapse design-engineering feedback loops.\n5. Establish UX quality benchmarks and lead critique sessions across the organization, elevating design maturity and craft standards globally.\n6. Mentor and develop a team of senior designers, providing technical guidance and career development.\n7. Represent Design in executive reviews (VP, SVP) with data-driven recommendations and clear strategic narratives.\n8. Navigate complex stakeholder matrices to build consensus across multiple product teams operating under a shared UX umbrella.\n\n### A day in the life\nYour 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.\n\n### About the team\nThe 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\n### Basic Qualifications\n1. 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.\n2. Demonstrable portfolio of shipped enterprise-scale B2B products, with emphasis on data-intensive or security-domain interfaces.\n3. Deep expertise in design systems — architecture, governance, component libraries, and cross-team adoption at scale.\n4. Strong technical fluency: ability to read, review, and contribute to production code (HTML/CSS/JS, React preferred).\n5. Experience designing for complex data visualization — dashboards, threat detection, network topology, log analysis.\n6. Track record of influencing product strategy at the organizational level, not just feature-level execution.\n\n### Preferred Qualifications\n1. Direct experience in cybersecurity, cloud security, or observability platforms.\n2. Hands-on experience with AI/ML product design, particularly agentic patterns.\n3. Experience building from 0→1 and establishing product-market fit for new product lines.\n4. Published thought leadership or recognized contributions to the design community.\n5. Proficiency with AI-assisted design and development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Replit, v0).",{"title":5,"description":133},"job-listing/amazon-principal-ux-designer-aws-security-search-observability-governance-staff-1-may","9saf79_RLYzdM6V4Hb9nsRT840L8_lOXBQzy_VwIsfw",1777681795683]