Lead Product Designer, Jira

About the Position

We are seeking a Lead Product Designer for Jira to lead strategic design initiatives and modernize our work management platform. This role is pivotal in shaping the future of Jira, Atlassian’s flagship product within the Teamwork Collection app suite.

Responsibilities

As a Lead Product Designer, you will:

• Conceptualize and deliver industry-leading experiences.
• Mentor the Jira design team and lead strategic initiatives.
• Set a cohesive vision and manage interconnected projects.
• Design end-to-end experiences that integrate AI into Jira workflows and collaboration.
• Partner with leadership, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to define a unified vision for modern work management at Atlassian.
• Lead design projects from concept to delivery, ensuring customer value, outcomes, and impact.
• Define success metrics to ensure designs deliver customer value and business impact.
• Identify opportunities to improve our apps and platform and to advance AI-native product evolution.

Requirements

• 7+ years of product design experience designing complex or enterprise-level software.
• High level of craft in visual design execution.
• Strong prototyping skills, with the ability to present clear options, configurations, and trade-offs.
• Recent experience designing AI-native processes, workflows, and agentic tooling.
• Experience in end-to-end UX and product design, crafting impactful solutions to challenging problems.
• Passion for storytelling, with the ability to bring design direction to life through a compelling narrative.
• Experience conducting and applying customer research, including design thinking, prototyping, and conceptual modeling.
• Experience balancing customer needs with business goals, market viability, and technical feasibility.
• Facilitation and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the demonstrated ability to integrate the work of multiple teams, solicit and synthesize feedback, and facilitate design discussions that lead to clear progress and outcomes.
• Experience measuring success through qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Strong stakeholder management, risk mitigation, and negotiation skills.
• Experience improving processes and methodologies to increase product value, team velocity, and adoption of new capabilities.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation programs.
• Benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
• Health and wellbeing resources.
• Paid volunteer days.
• And much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.

About the Company

At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet, and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.

In line with local law, identity verification (which may include the use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

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