Senior Design Manager, AI

Overview

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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

Responsibilities

This is a remote position. To help our teams work together effectively, this role requires you to be located in the Pacific Time Zone.

Your future team

We're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join the AI Design Team. Our mission is to accelerate AI innovation across our products and platforms, provide cohesive AI experiences, and set up an Atlassian AI platform for the future. Reporting into the Head of Design for AI, you'll lead Product and Content Designers on the Search and Conversation team working on Atlassian Rovo—using AI to find, learn, and act. You will have both a strong design background and practitioner experience with AI/ML and AI-centered products for search and chat.

What you'll do

• You'll work with fellow Designers, Engineers, Product Managers, Content Designers, Researchers, Marketers, and Analysts to develop an elegant user experience in our products and ship high-quality work.

• Partner with leadership, stakeholders, cross-functional teams to create improvements to AI-driven features and core AI capabilities.

• Recruit, mentor, and support a growing design team, serving as a role model and motivator to foster a diverse and inclusive working environment.

• Work with the product teams to unlock team productivity with search, chat, knowledge discovery, and AI agents for Rovo and Atlassian product suite.

• Lead multiple AI initiatives with your team from creation to execution and be responsible for tying back to customer value delivery and outcomes.

• Communicate design concepts and plans persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.

• Ensure design solutions deliver customer value through qualitative research and quantitative data.

Qualifications

Your background

• At least seven years of experience in Design Leadership roles as a direct manager.

• Experience in planning and driving direction autonomously - both as a hands-on designer, and as a manager.

• Strong belief in the power of AI tools to enhance and accelerate daily productivity, enabling more efficient workflows and promoting innovation.

• Maintain an area of core strength in one or more Design disciplines where you can lead through your expertise.

• Experience on design infrastructure teams and working across a suite of products.

• Track record in working with scaled systems and different methods for designing.

• Comfort in the level and speed of learning and ambiguity needed to navigate fast-evolving fields like AI.

• Positive collaboration history with other departments, like Engineering, Product Management, and Research.

• Examples of a high degree of influence with all kinds of internal partners, including senior leadership.

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable and explainable compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience.

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: $216,600 - $288,800

Zone B: $194,900 - $259,900

Zone C: $179,800 - $239,700

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

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.

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Our perks & benefits

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