Lead Product Designer - Atlassian Design System, Atlassian

Atlassian

Location:

United States, San Francisco

Category:

IT - Software Development

Contract Type:

Employment contract

Salary:

179700.00 - 288700.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

At Atlassian's 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. The Atlassian Design System team is designated a Pacific team so team mates span across Australian, New Zealand and West-Coast USA to ensure good collaboration. The ideal candidate for this role resides in the West Coast USA and can work to PT hours. The Atlassian Design System (ADS) team is driving the next evolution of its design system to continue on their world class journey to mature the craft of design at Atlassian and the design systems industry as a whole. The team are driving the direction and roll out of Atlassian’s largest brand refresh into products for the benefit of millions of customers world wide which spans across UI Foundations, Components and Accessibility. They are also leaders in the tooling and engagement methods used to lead high levels of adoption across designers and developers to increase their work happiness and velocity in shipping high-quality customer experiences.

Job Responsibility:

Craft and communicate design vision and influence its roll out across multiple products with high levels of adoption to see the team deliver tangible value to customers under your craft leadership
Collaborate with makers (designers and developers) to ensure our tooling, comms and engagement strategies are sound and impactful in driving towards our ADS OKRs for adoption
Promote the development of our ADS Components strategy to support the needs of Enterprises and in turn support greater composition opportunities across Atlassian
Make company wide impact with your ability to lead programs end-to-end through to detailed delivery, helping thousands of designers and developers to create beautiful software
Collaborate with other Lead/Principal designers across Atlassian, outside of your immediate team, to further our design harmonization efforts and their connection back to ADS’s mission
Work in tight partnership with our Engineering Leads and cross-functional partners to influence our roadmap and next highest opportunities
Set a high-bar for design craft quality through your skills in visual and interaction design as well as your systems design and love educating others in these topics
Your ability to mentor and set direction for others enables the whole team around you to grow and be lifted up
Have a deep passion for design systems and share your thought leadership with the team, with our company and the wider industry as we continue to create world class design system solutions and beautiful UI designs for customers

Requirements:

Experience: 12+ years in design systems and product design with deep experience at the Enterprise or other complex level systems/organisations
Specialisation in complex systems: You are a technical expert in design systems across designer and developer workflows and your passion for systems and architecture enables you to communicate complex systems across multiple touch-points
Developer knowledge and/or skills: to effectively collaborate with our principal and lead engineers and architects and create solutions which increase quality and productivity
User centered design: Your ability to create clarity, bring your stakeholders and leaders on the journey and balance that with maker or customers needs is a strength of yours
Strong visual and verbal comms skills: to share your design rationale and create an inclusive and supportive culture of continuous feedback from design executives all the way down to more junior team members
Strong collaboration skills and ability to partner: Experienced in partnering with Heads of Design, Heads of Engineering and Lead/Principal level peers to craft solutions which are well considered

What we offer:

health coverage
paid volunteer days
wellness resources

Additional Information:

Job Posted:

March 19, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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