Lead Product Designer - Atlassian Administration

📋 Description

• Influence long-term architecture decisions by collaborating with PM and engineering to understand technical constraints and opportunities.

• Drive systems design thinking across Atlassian Administration, iterating on our conceptual model to simplify complex workflows and improve the consistency, scalability, and personality of UX/UI patterns.

• Maintain a high visual design bar by crafting cohesive, visually engaging designs that balance function with form, using grids, layouts, and advanced compositions to create delightful user experiences.

• Lead cross-functional collaboration with product managers, engineers, and designers to identify and solve customer pain points, aligning user needs with business priorities across Atlassian.

• Coach and mentor designers at all levels, offering actionable feedback and fostering growth in their craft and confidence in their contributions.

• Translate product strategies into narratives with actionable goals, clearly communicating design intentions and ensuring alignment with team OKRs, customer outcomes, and broader organizational objectives.

• Advocate inclusivity in all design work, championing standards and best practices across the organization.

• Balance leadership and hands-on execution by driving your own strategic initiatives while ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality designs through other team members.

• Use design research and data insights to inform and validate your work, setting up iterative testing processes to continuously refine and improve designs.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of product design experience, with a focus on complex systems, enterprise SaaS, or scalable design solutions.

• Exceptional skill in simplifying complexity and employing storytelling and design to engage stakeholders.

• Deep expertise in systems design thinking, with a proven track record of creating and extending scalable design patterns and frameworks beyond org boundaries.

• Strong knowledge of visual design principles, including grids, layout, typography, and composition, and the ability to create cohesive, visually engaging designs.

• Experience collaborating with engineering teams to align design with architecture, informing technical decisions that enhance the user experience.

• Proficiency in tools like Figma, Sketch, and prototyping software, with the ability to co-design and iterate with cross-functional teams.

• Excellent facilitation, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders across product, engineering, and design.

• A track record of coaching and mentoring designers to raise craft quality and foster a growth mindset.

• Familiarity with design systems, and experience contributing to their evolution and scaling within a complex organization.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking skills, with experience using research, data insights, and design thinking to drive user-centered outcomes.

• Bonus: Large Scale Enterprise SaaS companies with relevant Administration Experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• health coverage

• paid volunteer days

• wellness resources

• and so much more.