Principal Product Designer, Jira

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

Job summary

Atlassian is seeking a Principal Product Designer to lead the Jira Design team, reporting to a Senior Design Manager. You will guide end-to-end design across Jira and the Teamwork Collection app suite, collaborating with engineers, product managers, researchers, and across global teams.

You will shape vision, mentor teams, and drive strategic initiatives while delivering cohesive user experiences and measurable impact.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of end-to-end product design experience leading visual, UX and conceptual UI craft across complex enterprise software.
• Advanced prototyping skills, including complex configurations and integrations.
• Experience shaping AI-native processes, workflows, and agentic systems with third-party integrations.
• Ability to translate complexity into clear direction and scalable experiences.
• Experience conducting customer research and applying design thinking to shape product strategy.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualise and deliver industry-leading experiences.
• Mentor the Jira design team and lead strategic initiatives.
• Define a unified vision for modern work management at Atlassian.
• Lead design projects from concept to delivery with customer value in mind.
• Define success metrics to measure design impact and business outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to evolve AI-native product capabilities.

Skills

End-to-end product design

Visual design

UX design

Prototyping

AI-native design

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Design storytelling

User research

Strategy and vision

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.

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 Principal Product Designer to be a key leader 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 high level individual contributor, you'll lead and execute visionary work across Jira, Atlassian’s flagship product within the Teamwork Collection app suite.

Responsibilities

What you’ll do:

As a Principal 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

• Make a substantial impact at scale. We have more than 10M users worldwide, and teams both large and small depend on our software. As a designer involved from product strategy to UI implementation, your work will have direct customer impact.
• You will own the entire design process. Instead of designing isolated features, you will define end-to-end product experiences and user journeys.
• Collaborate with some of the industry’s smartest and kindest people. You’ll work on a multidisciplinary product team with engineers, product managers, content designers, researchers, brand and marketing experts, and analysts to advocate for the user experience and ship industry-leading work.
• Amplify Atlassian’s System of Work and Jira’s role within the Teamwork Collection app suite. You will help usher in a new era of connected context, powerful Rovo capabilities and third-party agent tooling and integrations.
• Champion our users and great design. We run a world-class design organisation and aim to make customers love our products, measuring our work against competitors and industry standards.

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

• 9+ years of end-to-end product design experience leading visual, UX and conceptual UI craft across complex enterprise software
• An exceptional eye for detail, with specialist UI craft and visual design execution skills
• Advanced prototyping skills, including complex configurations, technical integrations and the ability to make sophisticated concepts tangible
• Demonstrated experience shaping AI-native processes, workflows and agentic systems, including third-party agents and MCP integrations
• Experience leading end-to-end UX and product design for ambiguous, strategic problems, translating complexity into clear direction and scalable experiences
• A passion for storytelling, with the ability to bring design direction to life through compelling narratives that align and influence senior audiences
• Experience conducting and applying customer research, including design thinking, prototyping and conceptual modelling, to shape product strategy and direction
• A demonstrated ability to balance customer needs with business goals, market viability and technical feasibility, while making high-quality decisions in conditions of ambiguity
• Facilitation and cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to integrate the work of multiple teams, align diverse perspectives and facilitate discussions that lead to company-wide outcomes
• The ability to define programs and interconnected projects, establish measures of success, test assumptions and outcomes, and incorporate feedback to improve direction over time
• Strong executive-level stakeholder engagement, including change management, risk mitigation and the ability to negotiate complex trade-offs
• Experience improving processes, methodologies and ways of working to increase product quality, team velocity, customer value 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: $221,400 - $289,050

Zone B: $199,260 - $260,145

Zone C: $183,762 - $239,912

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.