The Lead Product Designer at Atlassian will lead design initiatives for Strategy Collection apps, mentor designers, and craft high-quality user-centered solutions while collaborating across teams.
Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.
As a Lead Product Designer, you'll:
At Atlassian, Lead designers are expected to:
Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $189,000 - $246,750
Zone B: $170,100 - $222,075
Zone C: $157,500 - $205,625
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
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 .
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.
As a Lead Product Designer, you'll:
- Design end-to-end experiences that bring the power of AI into the Strategy Collection apps workflow
- Lead end-to-end design for Strategy Collection initiatives: from strategy and discovery to detailed execution, ensuring world-class design from framing the problem to delivery.
- Frame and simplify complex problems, balancing customer, partner, and business needs.
- Mentor designers across the team, providing coaching, critique, and guidance.
- Evolve and scale design systems across Strategy Collection apps and its touchpoints.
- Partner across Atlassian, aligning Strategy Collection with broader ecosystem, platform, and growth priorities.
- Advocate for customers and partners, leveraging data, research, and experimentation.
At Atlassian, Lead designers are expected to:
- Scope & Complexity: Operate at high complexity, ambiguity, and scale. Anticipate challenges across teams and products.
- Influence & Leadership: Influence leaders across disciplines, set design direction, and align strategy.
- Craft Mastery: Deliver design solutions of exceptional quality that scale and raise the bar for the org.
- Coaching & Growth: Mentor, coach, and uplift the design team, contributing to culture and craft maturity.
- Strategic Impact: Define and shape initiatives critical to Atlassian's product and business goals.
- 8-10+ years of product design experience, with a strong portfolio of shipped work.
- High level of craft in interaction, visual, and motion design. You care deeply about the details and inspire others to do the same.
- You have a track record of shipping innovative, user-centered solutions in fast-paced, cross-functional teams. You thrive on collaboration and know how to turn big ideas into real impact.
- Proven ability to lead design for complex, multi-surface products.
- Experience in enterprise saas products is highly valued.
- Strong collaboration and influence skills, with experience driving outcomes across teams and levels.
- Mastery of interaction, visual, and systems design, and comfort working within and evolving design systems.
- A mentorship mindset, with a track record of helping other designers grow.
Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $189,000 - $246,750
Zone B: $170,100 - $222,075
Zone C: $157,500 - $205,625
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
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 .
Top Skills
AI
Design Systems
Interaction Design
Motion Design
SaaS
Visual Design
Atlassian Austin, Texas, 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.
Atlassian Austin, Texas, USA Office
303 Colorado St , Austin, TX, United States, 78701
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