Lead Product Designer, Jira

Atlassian•San Francisco, CA

3d•$159,858 - $251,450•Remote

About The Position

Jira is the beating heart of Atlassian’s System of Work, evolving from a system that helps teams manage work into an intelligent partner for how modern work gets done. Unifying organizational context, capabilities, and agentic workflows - and enriched by the Teamwork Graph and powered by Rovo, 1P, and 3P agents - Jira turns everyday collaboration into a blend of human creativity, enterprise-grade reliability and agent-driven execution. The Jira Design team’s remit is to continuously evolve Jira into the modern choice for work management and to unleash the power of every team. We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to be a key contributor within 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 lead individual contributor, you'll lead and execute strategic work across Jira, Atlassian’s flagship product within the Teamwork Collection app suite.

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 modelling
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 synthesise feedback, and facilitate design discussions that lead to clear progress and outcomes
Experience measuring success through qualitative and quantitative methods
The ability to define complex projects, requirements, measures of success, testing approaches and feedback mechanisms
Strong stakeholder management, risk mitigation and negotiation skills
Experience improving processes and methodologies to increase product value, team velocity and adoption of new capabilities

Responsibilities

Conceptualise and deliver industry-leading experiences.
Mentor our Jira design team, lead strategic initiatives, set cohesive vision, and manage interconnected projects so Jira feels designed by one hand.
Make a substantial impact at scale, with more than 10M users worldwide, and teams both large and small depending on our software.
Own the entire design process, defining end-to-end product experiences and user journeys instead of designing isolated features.
Collaborate with engineers, product managers, content designers, researchers, brand and marketing experts, and analysts to advocate for the user experience and ship industry-leading work.
Amplify Atlassian’s System of Work and Jira’s role within the Teamwork Collection app suite, ushering in a new era of connected context, powerful Rovo capabilities and third-party agent tooling and integrations.
Champion our users and great design, aiming to make customers love our products, measuring our work against competitors and industry standards.
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.