Product Designer III, AWS Search, Security, Observability, Governance
Job Description
Own end-to-end product design for core experiences in Amazon OpenSearch Service, with focus on agentic search and agentic observability.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end design for a core OpenSearch experience, covering problem framing, research, interaction design, visual craft, production implementation, and post-launch measurement
- Define the experience for Winnow / agentic search, including how customers express intent, how agent planning and reasoning are surfaced, how results and provenance earn trust, and how customers stay in control
- Work as a true end-to-end builder while embedded in a builder pod, shaping what gets built and sequencing delivery (not only presentation layer)
- Design for genuine complexity across high-volume workflows, including search relevance, vector and semantic search, log analytics, dashboards, observability workflows, alerting, and root-cause investigation
- Help define agentic observability alongside agentic search by designing interfaces that surface agent reasoning, findings, and remediation, with trust as the primary design problem
- Run research that ships, including structured research cycles, trust-calibration studies, and competitive signal capture that feeds the roadmap directly
- Contribute to and extend the OpenSearch design system (OUI) to keep patterns consistent, accessible, and scalable across the product
- Partner daily with PMs and engineers to balance customer needs, deep technical constraints, and business goals
- Raise the design bar through critique, mentorship, and reusable patterns
Requirements
- 7+ years of design experience
- Available online portfolio
Tools & Technologies
- Figma
- OpenSearch
- Amazon OpenSearch Service
- OUI
Compensation & Location
- Location: Bellevue, WA (onsite)
- Salary: USD 137,800 - 205,000 per year
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, 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
- Parental leave
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
A Day in the Life
- Start with a design review presenting a systems-level concept to product and engineering, covering how a new interaction pattern scales across multiple surfaces
- Shift into hands-on Figma craft work to refine a prototype based on recent research findings
- Facilitate cross-functional alignment sessions where stakeholders converge on a shared path forward
- Mentor fellow designers, write persuasive strategy documents, and use AI tools to rapidly explore ideas
About the Team
- Design team behind Amazon OpenSearch Service, with six designers embedded in OpenSearch builder pods to own the experience from problem framing through production
- Building net-new patterns for agentic search and agentic observability, focused on how customers trust a system that searches, reasons, and acts
- Operating principles: end-to-end builders, research that ships, and a self-learning design system (OUI evolving toward agentic patterns)
- Treat design as a competitive weapon, with senior ownership and a focus on craft, research, and raising each other’s work