Head of Art

Overview

Working at Atlassian

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Responsibilities

The Atlassian creative team is a "Builder Org" that operates at AI-speed with a main focus on craft. We're looking for a visionary Head of Art to define, elevate, and protect the visual soul of the brand across all touchpoints across the company. This is not a traditional creative management role. In our structure, you are not only a creative leader, you are a DRI — a player-coach who sets the strategic and artistic direction for a group of ICs while staying close to the work / on the tools yourself. You'll lead the art craft across brand acts, campaigns, partnerships in AWF1, events, social and all other creative formats, ensuring everything we ship meets the highest bar for Taste and Craft — our two non-negotiable standards. You'll bridge the space between ambitious artistic expression, cultural trends and strategic brand execution — to ensure that every touchpoint, from global campaigns to the smallest design details, is crafted to the highest standard. You believe that art direction isn't just about how something looks — it's about how it works, how it feels, and the story it tells. You're a master of your craft, a mentor, highly collaborative, energised by AI as a creative accelerator and a sharp strategic thinker who can articulate the "why" behind the "what" to partners across the business.

What You'll Do

Report to the Executive Creative Director. You sit on the Creative Leadership team — meaning you help define the team culture, thought leadership and help steer the 50+ creative team. You aren't just looking over work, you are shaping the team and the brand direction. Thoughtful about budgets, resourcing, process, collaboration, shaping the team ways of working.

• Own the Art Direction (DRI): Define and evolve Atlassian's global look and feel through artistic direction. You receive the "Intent" for projects; you are a problem solver, not just executing against a brief but making sure strategically we are building the best solution. You help decide what to build, and manage the "infinite options" that AI unlocks to ensure strategic alignment and bespoke brand expression.

• Build, Don't Just Brief: In our org, every leader is a builder. You will be hands-on — strategising, proactively finding solutions, directing, prototyping, and crafting alongside your team. No just "people management." If you aren't making the work better, the role isn't required.

• Lead a Modular Team of ICs: While only Art Directors will directly report to you, you will also need to manage and mentor Writers, Designers, Producers, Project Managers and Motion Artists. Our teams are project-based and modular — you'll assemble best-fit squads from across the creative org based on project "Intent," not fixed reporting lines. Foster a culture of creative excellence, curiosity, and relentless iteration.

• Champion "Siblings, Not Twins": Drive a visual system that provides shared DNA while enabling bespoke, expressive executions across every touchpoint — digital, OOH, film, experiential events, thought leadership, board documents, in-product, and more. We don't do "one-size-fits-all." Every expression of Atlassian should feel personal and essential.

• Ship, Don't Deck: Oversee art executions from concept to launch with uncompromising attention to typography, photography, motion, and detail. Help drive and deliver prototypes for a “reps” based creative model.

• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with Brand, PMM, Events, Demand, Comms, OCMO, OCEO, Product Design, Sales, and Eng to deliver a unified brand experience. In our structure, you work directly with other DRIs.

• Curate World-Class Internal + External Talent: Source and direct exceptional contractors with world-class experience and production partners and agency partners. Our "Hybrid Internal Expert Bench" model means you're plugging in talent as extensions of the team across USA, Australia, EU and more — not managing vendors.

• Embrace AI as a Creative Multiplier: Help enable and embed AI tools and workflows as core to our process — for rapid prototyping, exploration, and iteration. Quality comes from "Reps" — the ability to build, fail, explore, and iterate at a pace previously impossible.

• Uphold the Craft Standard: You believe that once work is shipped we can learn from it — always curious to audit the Craf