Head of Jira AI Design & Product Experience

Atlassian Corp.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 221,000 - 289,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Volunteer days

Perks and benefits

Job summary

Atlassian is seeking a design leader to drive Jira’s AI reinvention. You will guide a focused team of designers, shaping end-to-end interaction architectures and agentic experiences in collaboration with Confluence and other teams.

The role emphasizes delivering a cohesive vision while maintaining the highest craft standards across enterprise workflows. You will partner with product and engineering to translate a bold design direction into phased product innovation, balancing complexity with

Qualifications

• 10+ years in design leadership and shipping complex product work.
• Portfolio showing exceptional visual and interaction design.
• Experience designing B2B software or complex product ecosystems.
• Systems and journey thinking to set end-to-end vision.
• Fluency in AI-native product opportunities and human-in-the-loop interactions.
• Ability to partner with product and engineering and uphold a high craft bar.

Responsibilities

• Lead a focused design team of up to ten designers and collaborate with senior ICs.
• Shape systems-level interaction architecture and customer journeys for Jira workflows.
• Guide AI-native and agentic experiences in Jira in collaboration with Confluence.
• Communicate the vision and priorities with product, engineering, and design leaders.
• Raise design quality through critique, prototyping, and cross-team collaboration.
• Connect Jira’s direction with shared UX frameworks across Atlassian ecosystem.

Skills

Design leadership

AI-native product thinking

B2B design

Systems & journey thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Vision communication

Job description

Atlassian is seeking a design leader to drive Jira’s AI reinvention. You will guide a focused team of designers, shaping end-to-end interaction architectures and agentic experiences in collaboration with Confluence and other teams.

The role emphasizes delivering a cohesive vision while maintaining the highest craft standards across enterprise workflows. You will partner with product and engineering to translate a bold design direction into phased product innovation, balancing complexity with