Lead Product Designer

Overview

Working at Atlassian

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.

Responsibilities

Your Future Team

Are you passionate about designing elegant experiences at scale? Do you thrive on simplifying complex systems for real users? At Atlassian, we're looking for a Lead Product Designer to join our Commerce Design Team—the team behind how customers and partners buy, manage, and grow with Atlassian products.

Commerce is at the heart of the Atlassian experience. Whether it's choosing the right product, managing a subscription, or handling billing, our platform plays a critical role in our customers' journey. As a lead designer, you’ll help shape this journey—making it more intuitive, seamless, and efficient.

By joining this team, you’ll help influence long-term visual and interaction design decisions and set the direction for seamless, cohesive user experiences. You’ll also collaborate with a global network of over 600 designers, sharing best practices and contributing to a culture of design excellence.

What You’ll Do

• Drive systems design thinking across Atlassian Commerce Platform, iterating on our conceptual model to simplify complex workflows and improve the consistency, scalability, and personality of UX/UI patterns.
• Maintain a high visual design bar by crafting cohesive, visually engaging designs that balance function with form, using grids, layouts, and advanced compositions to create delightful user experiences.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with product managers, engineers, and designers to identify and solve customer pain points, aligning user needs with business priorities across Atlassian.
• Coach and mentor designers at all levels, offering actionable feedback and fostering growth in their craft and confidence in their contributions.
• Translate product strategies into narratives with actionable goals, clearly communicating design intentions and ensuring alignment with team OKRs, customer outcomes, and broader organizational objectives.
• Balance leadership and hands-on execution by driving your own strategic initiatives while ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality designs through other team members.
• Use design research and data insights to inform and validate your work, setting up iterative testing processes to continuously refine and improve designs.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Your Background

• 10+ years of product design experience, with a focus on complex systems, enterprise SaaS, or scalable design solutions.
• Exceptional skill in simplifying complexity and employing storytelling and design to engage stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of visual design principles, including grids, layout, typography, and composition, and the ability to create cohesive, visually engaging designs.
• Experience collaborating with engineering teams to align design with architecture, informing technical decisions that enhance the user experience.
• Proficiency in tools like Figma, Sketch, and prototyping software, with the ability to co-design and iterate with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders across product, engineering, and design.
• A track record of coaching and mentoring designers to raise craft quality and foster a growth mindset.
• Familiarity with design systems, and experience contributing to their evolution and scaling within a complex organization.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .

About Atlassian

At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .