Senior Design Manager, Jira AI
About The Position
This role sits at the center of Jira's AI transformation: building experiences where agentic systems and human teams work together. You'll lead the design vision for how Jira evolves into an intelligent platform — one where agents plan, execute, and collaborate as teammates. The work goes beyond adding AI to existing surfaces. You'll define what Jira becomes when agents are first-class participants: how they take direction, report progress, negotiate tradeoffs, and earn trust. This requires a designer who thinks in systems, brings deep technical fluency, and can align a cross-functional organization around a compelling, well-articulated vision. You'll lead a team of 8–12 designers and partner closely with product and engineering leadership — building together with heart and balance while keeping craft standards high. Jira is in the early stages of a multi-year transformation around agentic AI. The design patterns, trust frameworks, and interaction models for this new paradigm haven't been established yet — they need a leader to define them. This is the moment to join: early enough to shape the direction, with enough organizational commitment to make it real. This role is built for designers who have shaped agentic or platform-level AI experiences. If that's your background, this is where that work reaches its largest audience.
Requirements
- Direct experience designing for agentic systems, AI platforms, or autonomous workflows — not just AI-assisted features
- Technical depth to collaborate as a peer with engineering leaders on architecture, model behavior, and system design
- Track record leading design for complex, large-scale enterprise or developer-facing products
- Demonstrated ability to define a compelling product vision and deliver against it in evolving, ambiguous environments
- Experience managing and growing teams of 8+ designers
Nice To Haves
- Background in developer tools, project management, or productivity platforms
- Experience at companies building agent infrastructure, whether established organizations or earlier-stage ventures
- Familiarity with the enterprise project management landscape and the teams who use these tools daily
- Track record of building and retaining strong, diverse design teams
- Experience working across organizational boundaries where collaboration and influence matter as much as craft
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the design vision for Jira's agentic AI experiences — what Jira looks and feels like when agents are native collaborators
- Set the direction for multi-year product evolution and build alignment across product, engineering, and executive leadership
- Lead a team of 8–12 designers: setting craft standards, developing talent, and fostering an inclusive team culture
- Partner with engineering to navigate the technical constraints of agent architectures, LLM behavior, and platform design
- Drive experimentation — MVPs, prototypes, concept sprints — to validate new interaction paradigms before scaling them
- Own end-to-end design quality of shipped AI experiences across Jira surfaces
- Contribute to the broader design organization's approach to AI-native product design
- Coordinate across AI platform, ecosystem design, and adjacent product teams to ensure connected, coherent experiences
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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