Principal Product Designer, Jira

Atlassian•San Francisco, CA

3d•$183,762 - $289,050•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 Principal Product Designer to be a key leader 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 high level individual contributor, you'll lead and execute visionary work across Jira, Atlassian’s flagship product within the Teamwork Collection app suite.

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

Responsibilities

Conceptualise and deliver industry-leading experiences.
Mentor our Jira design team.
Lead strategic initiatives.
Set cohesive vision.
Manage interconnected projects so Jira feels designed by one hand.
Make a substantial impact at scale.
Own the entire design process.
Define end-to-end product experiences and user journeys.
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.
Help usher in a new era of connected context, powerful Rovo capabilities and third-party agent tooling and integrations.
Champion our users and great design.
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.