Lead Visual Designer

Atlassian • San Francisco, CA

70d • $157,500 - $246,750

About The Position

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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company. We're looking for a Lead Visual Designer, with a solid online portfolio of relevant work, to join our team, help redefine how we visualize the data behind our experiences, and express value back to our customers through engaging, visually compelling insights. As a Lead IC in an organization consisting of multiple teams across Australia, North America, and India, you will work with cross functional partners, over a broad range of products and surfaces, to find new ways to visually tell our story, and our customer’s stories, through static and animated data visualization and UI components, creation flows or setup wizards, micro-interactions (buttons, likes, stars, check boxes, et al), product illustration, splash screens, first run, app launch, and other experiences.

Requirements

• 8+ years of 2D and 3D visual design experience across complex, data dense, and/or enterprise-level product design and branding contexts.
• Experience in creating and delivering strategic org wide design programs which impact multiple delivery teams.
• Experience in end-to-end UX/product design to design impactful solutions to challenging problems.
• Passion for story-telling, the ability to bring design direction to life with compelling narrative.
• Experience balancing customer needs with business goals, market viability, and technical feasibility.
• Facilitation and cross-functional collaboration skills: you can demonstrate the ability to integrate the work of multiple teams, solicit and synthesize feedback, and facilitate design discussions that lead company wide outcomes and positively influence future delivery roadmaps.
• Experience in design systems, the ability to identify common components required to support a wide array of customer use cases.
• Experience measuring success with qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Experience improving process and methodology to increase product value, team velocity and accelerate adoption of new capabilities.
• High level of proficiency with industry standard design tools: Figma, Creative Cloud, C4D or Blender, Redshift or Octane, etc.
• Learn-it-all mindset. Eagerness to learn and challenge yourself in the face of a fast changing design industry landscape.

Nice To Haves

• Prototyping skills.
• Motion design skills.
• Traditional animation skills.
• Video editing skills.
• Compositing skills.

Responsibilities

• Elevate our visual expression: extend Atlassian’s brand by advancing visual design, through motion, interaction, and AI-powered personalization, to ensure clarity, cohesion, and impact across Atlassian.com.
• Lead design quality at scale: deliver high-fidelity design solutions across multiple workstreams and products, balancing brand integrity with product goals.
• Shape systems & standards: merge design elements into a unified system, ensuring consistency in layouts, grids, typography, and motion across platforms.
• Drive strategy with stakeholders: partner with Product Marketing, PMs, engineers, and exec stakeholders to align design decisions with business outcomes. Communicate clearly, influence confidently, and prioritize effectively across competing demands.
• Scale impact through collaboration: work closely with content designers, researchers and creative partners to deliver cohesive and best-in-class experiences.
• Mentor and coach: be a craft leader and coach for other designers, uplifting skills in visual design, motion, and storytelling, while contributing to a culture of critique, quality, and growth.
• Champion research-driven design: translate formative and summative research into actionable, opinionated design improvements. Measure success and ensure our design solutions deliver long-term customer value.

Benefits

• Health and wellbeing resources.
• Paid volunteer days.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees