Working at Atlassian

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.

About the team

The Atlassian Design System (ADS) team is driving the next evolution of it’s 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.

What you’ll do

Reporting to the Head of Design, Atlassian Design Systems, you will oversee the strategic remit of our components, UX patterns and system-of-systems strategy which will help us to deliver platform capable experiences at Enterprise scale.

Craft and communicate design vision and influence it’s 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 OKR’s 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 through 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.

What you’ll bring:

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.

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive 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: $216,500 - $288,700

Zone B: $194,900 - $259,800

Zone C: $179,700 - $239,600

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.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.