Principal Product Designer, Studio

Atlassian; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlassian seeks an experienced senior product designer to lead cross-domain design work across our ecosystem. You will shape AI-native experiences, extend design systems, and influence product and technical strategy with senior leaders.

You will mentor designers and advocate inclusive, accessible design while advancing research and rapid prototyping across programs. You will collaborate with PMs and engineers to ensure feasible, high-impact designs that scale with the company’s enterprise and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of product design experience, with enterprise/platform experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating cross-product impact, not just polished screens.
• Mastery of interaction and visual design fundamentals; raise the craft.
• Deep systems thinking; ability to teach others.
• Strong prototyping instincts with emerging AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Set design direction for agentic experiences and align with studio strategy.
• Design systems that unify agents, apps, automations across platforms.
• Lead end-to-end design on high-leverage problems with principal-level judgment.
• Influence long-term product and technical architecture with PM/Engineering partners.
• Drive research, data, and prototyping; synthesize insights; champion rapid testing.
• Mentor mid- and senior-level designers; contribute to hiring and culture.
• Champion inclusive, accessible design across systems and reviews.
• Model AI-native workflows and patterns in design work; shape AI adoption.

Skills

12+ years product design

Portfolio shows cross-product impact

Interaction design

Visual design

Systems thinking

Prototyping with AI

Stakeholder influence

Mentoring designers

Comfort with ambiguity

Communication

AI-native design experience

AI-native product design

SaaS familiarity (pricing/packaging)

Tools

Figma

AI prototyping tools

Job description

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.

Overview

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.

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.

Responsibilities

As a P70, your primary area of ownership is cross-domain and cross-functional, and you influence senior management and cross-functional leaders. In this role you will:

• Set design direction for agentic experiences. Define North Star experiences for agent creation and lifecycle. You will help shape Studio strategy, and create cohesive, visually engaging narratives that align teams and unlock roadmap decisions.
• Design systems. Extend and simplify the conceptual models of agents, apps and automations, across platform and maker types, into one coherent experience. Propose architectural improvements that scale to future challenges.
• Design and ship the hardest problems. Lead end-to-end design on the ambiguous, high-leverage bets that need a Principal's judgement on interaction, visual, and information architecture. Maintain an exceptional craft bar and raise the bar for the surfaces you touch.
• Influence long-term product and technical architecture. Partner with PM and Engineering leaders to inform the roadmap, feasibility trade-offs, and future competitiveness. Bring an informed point of view on AI-native patterns, developer experience, and marketplace mechanics.
• Drive research, data, and prototyping at portfolio level. Plan formative and summative research across programs, synthesise insights from diverse sources into clear directions, and champion rapid prototyping and iterative testing as a core team practice.
• Multiply the team. Coach and mentor mid- and senior-level designers, review and critique, and share expertise through org-wide events, resources, and internal thought leadership. Participate in hiring to strengthen the bench.
• Champion inclusive, accessible design. Embed accessibility and inclusive design practices in our systems, patterns, and reviews so the bar rises everywhere, not just where you touch.
• Model AI-native ways of working. Actively adopt and shape how the Ecosystem & Marketplace design team designs with AI, from generative exploration to prototyping to research synthesis.
• Build consensus across senior stakeholders. Persuade through evidence, anticipate stakeholder needs, and rally cross-functional teams around a shared vision. Represent Design in the rooms where the biggest ecosystem decisions are made.

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Qualifications

Experience & craft

• 12+ years of product design experience, with meaningful time spent on enterprise, platform, developer, or marketplace / e-commerce products.
• A portfolio that demonstrates cross-product, cross-functional impact; not just polished screens, but systems that other designers and PMs continue to build on.
• Mastery of interaction and visual design fundamentals, and a track record of raising the bar for teams around you.
• Deep systems thinking. You can hold a domain-wide mental model in your head, and you can teach others to see it.
• Strong prototyping instincts (emerging AI tools/code).

Leadership & influence

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders (Director / VP level) across Product, Engineering, and Marketing on strategic direction.
• Experience mentoring and coaching mid- and senior-level designers, and elevating the craft of teams beyond your direct scope.
• Comfort with ambiguity: you find the signal in messy, multi-year problems and turn it into actionable plans.
• Excellent communicator: you translate complex ecosystem, technical, or commercial concepts into stories that land with any audience.

Bonus points

• Direct experience designing for AI-native workflows.
• Experience shipping AI-native product experiences (agents, generative UX, ambient intelligence).
• Familiarity with SaaS commerce mechanics: pricing, packaging, entitlements, quoting, or partner economics.
• Contributions to design community: writing, speaking, teaching, or open-source design work.

About The Team

The Ecosystem & Studio team is based in Australia and India.

• Curious. We love knotty problems and rich technical spaces.
• Craft-obsessed. We care about the details and the systems behind them.
• AI-forward. We're actively rebuilding how we design in an AI-native world.

You’ll be joining at a time of rapid and exciting change in agentic technology: you’ll have a front-row seat in shaping impact for our customers and Atlassian, and the scope, trust, and colleagues to do the best work of your career.

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 .

In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.