Principal Product Designer, Jira

About the Position

We're seeking a Principal Product Designer for Jira to lead visionary work and modernize design language across our platform.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Product Designer, you will:

• Conceptualise and deliver industry-leading experiences.
• Mentor our Jira design team, lead strategic initiatives, set cohesive vision, and manage interconnected projects.
• Design end-to-end experiences that integrate AI into Jira workflows and collaboration.
• Design journeys and patterns that modernise Jira’s design language and create cohesion across our platform, Rovo and 1P/3P agentic workflows.
• 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, owning 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

• 9+ years of end-to-end product design experience leading visual, UX and conceptual UI craft across complex enterprise software.
• An exceptional eye for detail, with specialist UI craft and visual design execution skills.
• Advanced prototyping skills, including complex configurations, technical integrations and the ability to make sophisticated concepts tangible.
• Demonstrated experience shaping AI-native processes, workflows and agentic systems, including third-party agents and MCP integrations.
• Experience leading end-to-end UX and product design for ambiguous, strategic problems, translating complexity into clear direction and scalable experiences.
• A passion for storytelling, with the ability to bring design direction to life through compelling narratives that align and influence senior audiences.
• Experience conducting and applying customer research, including design thinking, prototyping and conceptual modelling, to shape product strategy and direction.
• A demonstrated ability to balance customer needs with business goals, market viability and technical feasibility, while making high-quality decisions in conditions of ambiguity.
• Facilitation and cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to integrate the work of multiple teams, align diverse perspectives and facilitate discussions that lead to company-wide outcomes.
• The ability to define programs and interconnected projects, establish measures of success, test assumptions and outcomes, and incorporate feedback to improve direction over time.
• Strong executive-level stakeholder engagement, including change management, risk mitigation and the ability to negotiate complex trade-offs.
• Experience improving processes, methodologies and ways of working to increase product quality, team velocity, customer value and adoption of new capabilities.

We Offer

• Competitive salary ranging from $183,762 - $289,050 per year.
• A wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community.
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth.

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.

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