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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.
Role
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.
Our Perks & Benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
Industries
Software Development
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