[Hiring] Senior Design Manager, Jira AI @Atlassian

Role Description

This role sits at the center of Jira's AI transformation: building experiences where agentic systems and human teams work together. You'll lead the design vision for how Jira evolves into an intelligent platform — one where agents plan, execute, and collaborate as teammates.

• Define and drive the design vision for Jira's agentic AI experiences — what Jira looks and feels like when agents are native collaborators.
• Set the direction for multi-year product evolution and build alignment across product, engineering, and executive leadership.
• Lead a team of 8–12 designers: setting craft standards, developing talent, and fostering an inclusive team culture.
• Partner with engineering to navigate the technical constraints of agent architectures, LLM behavior, and platform design.
• Drive experimentation — MVPs, prototypes, concept sprints — to validate new interaction paradigms before scaling them.
• Own end-to-end design quality of shipped AI experiences across Jira surfaces.
• Contribute to the broader design organization's approach to AI-native product design.
• Coordinate across AI platform, ecosystem design, and adjacent product teams to ensure connected, coherent experiences.

Qualifications

• Direct experience designing for agentic systems, AI platforms, or autonomous workflows — not just AI-assisted features.
• Technical depth to collaborate as a peer with engineering leaders on architecture, model behavior, and system design.
• Track record leading design for complex, large-scale enterprise or developer-facing products.
• Demonstrated ability to define a compelling product vision and deliver against it in evolving, ambiguous environments.
• Experience managing and growing teams of 8+ designers.

Requirements

• Background in developer tools, project management, or productivity platforms.
• Experience at companies building agent infrastructure, whether established organizations or earlier-stage ventures.
• Familiarity with the enterprise project management landscape and the teams who use these tools daily.
• Track record of building and retaining strong, diverse design teams.
• Experience working across organizational boundaries where collaboration and influence matter as much as craft.

Benefits

• Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community.
• Health and wellbeing resources.
• Paid volunteer days.
• Eligibility for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.