The Lead Product Designer will lead the design of Jira, focusing on AI integration, user experience, and collaboration across teams, driving product value.
Your future team
We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to be a key pillar in the Jira Design team. In this role, you will report into a Senior Design Manager, and join an organization consisting of multiple teams in Australia and North America. As a high level individual contributor, you'll lead strategic work on Jira, our flagship product and further connect Jira to the Teamwork Collection of products.
Jira is the foundation for Atlassian's holistic view of modern, collaborative work. The Jira Design teams is responsible for transforming Jira into a modern work management solution for every team.
What you'll do:
Your background
We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to be a key pillar in the Jira Design team. In this role, you will report into a Senior Design Manager, and join an organization consisting of multiple teams in Australia and North America. As a high level individual contributor, you'll lead strategic work on Jira, our flagship product and further connect Jira to the Teamwork Collection of products.
Jira is the foundation for Atlassian's holistic view of modern, collaborative work. The Jira Design teams is responsible for transforming Jira into a modern work management solution for every team.
What you'll do:
- Design end-to-end experiences that bring the power of AI into the workflow and collaboration experiences in Jira
- Design patterns that modernize the visual language of Jira
- Partner with leadership, stakeholders, cross-functional teams to create a unified view of modern work management across Atlassian
- Lead design projects from creation to execution and be responsible tying back to customer value delivery and outcomes
- Identify success metrics ensuring design solutions continue to deliver customer value
- Identify opportunities to enhance our products and accelerate adoption by non-technical teams
- Collaborate with some of the industry's smartest (and nicest) people. You'll work with Engineers, Product Managers, Content Designers, Researchers, Marketing Experts, and Analysts to advocate for the user experience in our products and ship high-quality work
Your background
- 7+ years of product design experience designing complex or enterprise-level software
- High level of craft for visual design execution
- Experience in AI products across Agents, Chat, and Search
- Experience in end-to-end UX/product design to design impactful solutions to challenging problems
- Passion for story-telling, the ability to bring design direction to life with compelling narrative
- Experience balancing customer needs with business goals, market viability, and technical feasibility
- Facilitation and cross-functional collaboration skills: you can demonstrate the ability to integrate the work of multiple teams, solicit and synthesize feedback, and facilitate design discussions that lead company wide outcomes
- Experience measuring success with qualitative and quantitative methods
- Experience improving process and methodology to increase product value, team velocity and accelerate adoption of new capabilities
Top Skills
AI
JIRA
Ux Design
Visual Design
Atlassian San Francisco, California, USA Office
Atlassian believes the future of work is distributed and offers our people the flexibility to help them do what’s important to them. And with few exceptions, we hire people anywhere we have a legal entity as long as they have eligible work rights and sufficient team time zone overlap.
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