Lead Design Technologist
About The Position
As a Lead Design Technologist, you lead projects and make decisions that impact multiple departments. You are responsible for delivering high-quality, scalable design technology solutions that enable all product builders across Atlassian, enabling PM/Eng/Design peers, and driving innovation in prototyping, motion, and AI-led design workflows. You’ll join the Design Technology team within the Core Design org reporting to the Senior Manager for Design Technology. Design Technologists are a multidisciplinary group building the foundational tools, components, and AI-native product builder workflows that power the user experience across all Atlassian apps. The team partners closely with product, engineering, and accessibility experts to create scalable, inclusive, and coherent design solutions at enterprise scale. You’ll shape the future of Atlassian’s prototyping culture, champion best practices, and accelerate innovation through AI tooling and AI-toolchain workflow improvements for all of Atlassian Design.
Requirements
- 7+ years experience leading a high-performing design or design technology craft domain
- Fluent with the latest AI product building workflows and fundamentals (agentic loops, generative UI/UX, evals, and context engineering best practices)
- Strong skills in front-end engineering concepts, prototyping, AI tools, as well as integrations with visual design tools such as Figma.
- Experience mentoring and coaching others.
- Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to a wide audience.
- Ability to drive cross-functional projects and influence stakeholders.
- Familiarity with AI/ML, motion, and accessibility in design.
Responsibilities
- Deliver high-quality design technology solutions across multiple workstreams or domains.
- Champion rapid prototyping, user testing, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Mentor and guide less experienced designers and technologists.
- Identify and implement opportunities to enhance design workflows through custom tooling and automation.
- Solve complex design technology issues, optimizing processes and leveraging AI/LLMs.
- Demonstrate advanced skills in JS frameworks, prototyping, and motion design.
- Lead the co-creation of sense-making artifacts (blueprints, models) to communicate design concepts.
- Drive adoption of best practices in design technology and contribute to continuous improvement.
Benefits
- health and wellbeing resources
- paid volunteer days
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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