Senior Product Designer – Design Systems

Atlassian; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Paid volunteer days

Equity and broad benefits

Job summary

Atlassian is hiring a Senior Product Designer for Design Systems. You will shape the Atlassian Design Language and tokens, ensuring coherence across products and platforms.

The role focuses on AI-native interfaces, semantic design, and scalable component libraries. You will collaborate with product design, engineering, content design, brand, and platform teams to translate concepts into practical guidance, specifications, and reusable capabilities, driving adoption and quality across Atlassian

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product design, visual systems, and design systems.
• Excellent visual design craft, including visual communication and UI design.
• Hands-on experience designing and delivering design tokens, themed systems, and scalable component libraries.
• Strong systems thinking to turn direction into structured, production-ready designs.
• Practical AI fluency, including use of AI tools for daily exploration, prototyping, or workflow acceleration.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the Atlassian Design Language: evolve the visual design for coherence, high quality, tokens, themes, interactions, components.
• Design for AI-native, adaptive interfaces: systemise design decisions for consistent, accessible UI while preserving brand expression.
• Turn ambiguity into scalable system solutions: de-risk visual/system problems with high-fidelity explorations and prototypes.
• Partner across disciplines: work with product design, engineering, content design, brand, and platform to translate concepts into guidance and reusable capabilities.
• Raise the bar for craft, context, and adoption: provide critique, usage guidance, and support teams adopting ADS capabilities.

Skills

Visual design

Design systems

Systems thinking

AI fluency

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Version control

Front end code

Job description

Senior Product Designer – Design Systems

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.

Your Future Team

You’ll join the Atlassian Design System (ADS) team, where we craft the design language that powers every Atlassian experience. In this role, you’ll bring deep visual design and systems craft to a quickly evolving, AI-native design system, ensuring our brand is expressed with coherence and finesse, for interfaces being built by humans and agents.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve the Atlassian Design Language: Evolve the visual design that makes Atlassian products feel coherent, distinctive, and high quality, including tokens, themes, interaction patterns, and components.

Design for AI-native, adaptive interfaces: Systemise design language decisions to help people and agents generate consistent, accessible UI while preserving Atlassian’s brand expression and product clarity.

Turn ambiguity into scalable system solutions: De-risk complex visual and systems problems through high-fidelity explorations, functional prototypes, and clear recommendations that account for edge cases, accessibility, and implementation constraints.

Partner deeply across disciplines: Work with product design, engineering, content design, brand, and platform partners to translate emerging system concepts into practical guidance, specifications, and reusable capabilities.

Raise the bar for craft, context, and adoption: Model strong visual systems judgment in critique, create clear usage guidance, and support product teams as they adopt new ADS capabilities with confidence and consistency.

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of experience in product design, visual systems, and design systems

Demonstrated excellence in visual design craft, including visual communication and UI design

Hands‑on experience designing and delivering design tokens, themed systems, and scalable component libraries

Strong systems thinking with the ability to take conceptual direction and turn it into structured, well‑documented, and production‑ready designs

Practical AI fluency, including frequent use of AI tools for daily exploration, prototyping, or workflow acceleration –and ability to collaborate with agents to improve design quality of agentic output

Preferred Qualifications

Experience designing for dynamic or AI generated user interfaces

Experience working on complex multi-theme, enterprise systems

A basic understanding of version control, and front end code

Experience measuring and testing visual design changes with users

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.

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.