Lead Product Designer, Jira

Tech Ladies®; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 193,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonuses

Job summary

Atlassian in San Francisco is seeking a Lead Product Designer for Jira to shape the future of work management. You will lead and mentor the Jira design team, drive strategic initiatives across Jira, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-enabled experiences that blend design craft with business impact.

You will work across Australia and North America, reporting to a Senior Design Manager, influencing end-to-end user journeys and advancing a cohesive design language across the Jira

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience designing complex or enterprise-level software.
• High level of craft in visual design execution.
• Strong prototyping skills, with the ability to present clear options, configurations and trade-offs.
• Recent experience designing AI-native processes, workflows and agentic tooling.
• Experience in end-to-end UX and product design, crafting impactful solutions to challenging problems.
• Passion for storytelling, with the ability to bring design direction to life through a compelling narrative.
• Experience conducting and applying customer research, including design thinking, prototyping and conceptual modelling.
• Experience balancing customer needs with business goals, market viability and technical feasibility.
• Facilitation and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the demonstrated ability to integrate the work of multiple teams, solicit and synthesise feedback, and facilitate design discussions that lead to clear progress and outcomes.
• Experience measuring success through qualitative and quantitative methods.

Responsibilities

• As a Lead Product Designer, you will conceptualise and deliver industry-leading experiences. You’ll mentor our Jira design team, lead strategic initiatives, set cohesive vision, and manage interconnected projects so Jira feels designed by one hand.
• As a Product Designer At Atlassian, You'll lead and execute strategic work across Jira, Atlassian’s flagship product within the Teamwork Collection app suite.

Skills

Senior design leadership

Craft in visual design

Prototyping

AI-native workflows

End-to-end UX

Storytelling

Customer research

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

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Atlassian

Posted on

Oct 26, 2026

Lead Product Designer, Jira

San Francisco

Mid-Senior ICs

Design, Information Technology

Atlassian

Atlassian

www.atlassian.com

5001+

Software Development

Atlassian is a global software company helping teams around the world unleash their potential. We build tools that help teams collaborate, build, and create together.

With our 300,000+ customers and team of 10,000+ Atlassians, we are building the next generation of team collaboration and productivity software. We believe the power of teams have the potential to change the world- one that is more open, authentic, and inclusive.

Overview

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.

Jira is the beating heart of Atlassian’s System of Work, evolving from a system that helps teams manage work into an intelligent partner for how modern work gets done.

Unifying organizational context, capabilities, and agentic workflows - and enriched by the Teamwork Graph and powered by Rovo, 1P, and 3P agents - Jira turns everyday collaboration into a blend of human creativity, enterprise-grade reliability and agent-driven execution.

Your future team

The Jira Design team’s remit is to continuously evolve Jira into the modern choice for work management and to unleash the power of every team.

We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to be a key contributor within the Jira Design team. In this role, you will report into a Senior Design Manager, and join an organization consisting of multiple teams in Australia and North America. As a lead individual contributor, you'll lead and execute strategic work across Jira, Atlassian’s flagship product within the Teamwork Collection app suite.

Responsibilities

What you'll do:

• As a Lead Product Designer, you will conceptualise and deliver industry-leading experiences. You’ll mentor our Jira design team, lead strategic initiatives, set cohesive vision, and manage interconnected projects so Jira feels designed by one hand.
• As a Product Designer At Atlassian, You'll

What This Looks Like Day-to-day

• Design end-to-end experiences that integrate AI into Jira workflows and collaboration.
• Design journeys and patterns that modernise Jira’s design language and create cohesion across our platform, Rovo and 1P/3P agentic workflows.
• Partner with leadership, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to define a unified vision for modern work management at Atlassian.
• Lead design projects from concept to delivery, owning customer value, outcomes, and impact.
• Define success metrics to ensure designs deliver customer value and business impact.
• Identify opportunities to improve our apps and platform and to advance AI-native product evolution.

Your background

• 7+ years of product design experience designing complex or enterprise-level software
• High level of craft in visual design execution
• Strong prototyping skills, with the ability to present clear options, configurations and trade-offs
• Recent experience designing AI-native processes, workflows and agentic tooling
• Experience in end-to-end UX and product design, crafting impactful solutions to challenging problems
• Passion for storytelling, with the ability to bring design direction to life through a compelling narrative
• Experience conducting and applying customer research, including design thinking, prototyping and conceptual modelling
• Experience balancing customer needs with business goals, market viability and technical feasibility
• Facilitation and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the demonstrated ability to integrate the work of multiple teams, solicit and synthesise feedback, and facilitate design discussions that lead to clear progress and outcomes
• Experience measuring success through qualitative and quantitative methods
• The ability to define complex projects, requirements, measures of success, testing approaches and feedback mechanisms
• Strong stakeholder management, risk mitigation and negotiation skills
• Experience improving processes and methodologies to increase product value, team velocity and adoption of new capabilities

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.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

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

Pay Ranges

Role

In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $192,600 - $251,450

Zone B: $173,340 - $226,305

Zone C: $159,858 - $208,704

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.

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.

About The Job

Apply before December 1, 2026

Posted on October 23, 2026

Experience level Mid-Senior ICs

Salary $192.6k-$251.5k / yr

Job type

Location San Francisco

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