Senior Design Manager, Atlassian Administration

Overview

Atlassian Administration is on a mission to make admins our strongest advocates by building a centralized mission control – Admin Hub – that equips administrators with visibility, control, and ease of use across their organization’s cloud footprint. We empower admins to operate efficiently, scale with Atlassian, and orchestrate collaboration across teams.

As Senior Design Manager, you will lead the strategy, execution, and craft excellence for Admin UX/UI, ensuring clarity, usability, and consistency across all admin experiences. You’ll oversee multiple workstreams and collaborate with teams across Atlassian to build scalable solutions for governance, security, user and product management, and insights. Your leadership will shape how admins configure, manage, and grow their organizations, aligning with the Atlassian System of Work and driving impact across business and user outcomes.

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

In this role, you will

• Lead and mentor a team of designers, fostering a culture of craft excellence, collaboration, and innovation in admin experience design.

• Define and execute the design strategy for Atlassian Administration, creating a scalable Admin Hub that empowers admins to configure, manage, and govern their organizations effectively.

• Drive a scalable and cohesive admin experience across key workstreams, including user and access management, security and governance, product and app integrations, admin insights and analytics, and information architecture for Admin UX.

• Ensure Admin Hub is extensible and easy to contribute to, allowing other teams across Atlassian to build admin-facing experiences efficiently while maintaining consistency and quality.

• Improve admin productivity by optimizing key workflows, including notifications, search, task management, and automation, ensuring admins can work efficiently at scale.

• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Research, and Data Science to align admin experiences with business needs, technical constraints, and evolving user expectations.

• Balance long-term vision with near-term execution, ensuring iterative improvements contribute to a more cohesive and scalable admin platform.

• Identify risks and remove blockers, proactively driving alignment across Atlassian teams to deliver high-quality admin solutions.

• Champion process improvements that streamline admin workflows, governance models, and cross-team collaboration, ensuring Admin Hub scales efficiently.

To be successful here, we think you will need to have

• Experience: 10+ years in product design, including 2+ years leading design teams in a platform or SaaS environment.

• Strategic Leadership: Experience defining and executing design strategies for complex, multi-product ecosystems, with a focus on governance, security, and administrative workflows.

• Design Craft & Execution: Strong background in interaction design, systems thinking, and UX for enterprise and admin interfaces, with a track record of delivering high-impact, scalable solutions.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ability to align stakeholders, influence leadership, and drive execution across multiple workstreams.

• Enterprise & Platform UX Knowledge: Deep understanding of admin needs, governance models, compliance, permissions, and access management in cloud-based platforms.

• Process Improvement & Change Leadership: A track record of enhancing design workflows, breaking down silos, and driving efficiency at scale.

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