Senior Design Manager

📋 Description

• Manage and mentor a team of product and content designers, fostering a supportive environment that encourages craft excellence and career growth.

• Oversee complex design initiatives spanning multiple workstreams, maintaining a high-quality standard and removing blockers to ensure timely delivery.

• Work closely with Engineering, Product Management, and Research to deliver cohesive, end-to-end product experiences.

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across the Atlassian developer solutions portfolio to drive alignment and support for design initiatives.

• Define and deliver conceptual models and incremental design improvements for core components, focusing on consistent and valuable user experiences.

• Champion design best practices, inclusive design, and pattern adoption, and drive continuous improvement of processes to support quality outcomes.

• Ensure high-quality, outcome-focused deliverables by effectively managing and prioritizing multiple workstreams.

• Develop a deep understanding of the Atlassian developer solutions ecosystem and how design decisions impact the broader Atlassian products.

• Provide ongoing coaching and feedback, fostering a high-performing, balanced, and diverse design team.

• Promote alignment and build trust across cross-functional teams, clearly communicating complex issues and fostering collaboration.

• Lead your team through change and ambiguity, ensuring consistent delivery and adapting to evolving priorities.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years in product design with 5+ years managing teams, ideally within a tech or SaaS environment.

• Demonstrated expertise in interaction design, prototyping, content design, or visual design, with a passion for delivering exceptional user experiences.

• Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners, align stakeholders, and influence product strategy.

• Clear, effective communicator with a strong ability to present and defend design decisions and direction.

• A natural mentor with a talent for developing and retaining diverse, high-performing teams.

• Ideally, experience leading design for tools targeted software development roles.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health coverage

• Paid volunteer days

• Wellness resources

• And so much more.