The Senior Principal Product Designer will lead design initiatives across teams, delivering high-quality solutions and influencing product direction, while mentoring other designers.
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.
Role Overview:
We are looking for a Senior Principal Designer designer to sit amongst our leadership team to help shape strategic solutions and deliver high-quality design solutions for our Atlassian's Teamwork Collection - Jira, Confluence, Loom and Rovo Agents. AI is at the forefront of a new cross-product AI experience. This person will think about how will the future of teamwork evolve, and how can we bring teams together more effectively?
This role operates with high autonomy, determining not only solutions but also the approaches to achieve them. The Senior Principal Designer's primary ownership extends across multiple departments and business areas, driving significant business impact and influencing senior design management and executive leadership.
Key Responsibilities
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: $267,300 - $348,975
Zone B: $241,200 - $314,900
Zone C: $222,300 - $290,225
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.
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
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 .
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.
Role Overview:
We are looking for a Senior Principal Designer designer to sit amongst our leadership team to help shape strategic solutions and deliver high-quality design solutions for our Atlassian's Teamwork Collection - Jira, Confluence, Loom and Rovo Agents. AI is at the forefront of a new cross-product AI experience. This person will think about how will the future of teamwork evolve, and how can we bring teams together more effectively?
This role operates with high autonomy, determining not only solutions but also the approaches to achieve them. The Senior Principal Designer's primary ownership extends across multiple departments and business areas, driving significant business impact and influencing senior design management and executive leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Project Impact: Deliver high-quality design solutions and outcomes across multiple business areas to meet business objectives. Review high-level milestones, mitigate risks, reduce ambiguity, and bring clarity to complex projects.
- Product & Tech Knowledge: Demonstrate deep understanding of products and technologies across multiple business areas. Resolve complex technical questions, design services/products to meet customer needs, and drive adoption of emerging technologies and best practices.
- Craft Excellence: Exhibit mastery in interaction and visual design, ensuring seamless and consistent experiences across products and services. Redefine user experience, anticipate trends, and integrate new technologies and tools.
- Systems & Architecture: Influence the development of new systems and architectures to create efficient and effective experiences across business areas and functions.
- Direction: Influence the technical direction and forward path of design initiatives to achieve broad impact.
- Effective Communication & Influence: Build trust and alignment across business areas and senior leadership. Lead discussions, facilitate consensus, and drive influence for the design vision at the executive level.
- Analytical Thinking: Proactively solve complex issues, provide organizational expertise, and optimize linkages between structure, people, process, and technology.
- Organizational Impact: Lead through change, embrace curiosity, and support colleagues through complex situations. Proactively provide feedback, coaching, and mentorship to develop self and others.
- Extensive experience (typically 10+ years) in UX, product, or interaction design, with a proven track record of delivering outcomes and driving product direction.
- Expertise in interaction and visual design, systems thinking, and design research.
- Demonstrated ability to influence at the executive level and across multiple business areas.
- Strong facilitation, collaboration, and communication skills.
- Experience mentoring and developing other designers.
- Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, or a related field is preferred.
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: $267,300 - $348,975
Zone B: $241,200 - $314,900
Zone C: $222,300 - $290,225
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.
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
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 .
Top Skills
Interaction Design
Ux
Visual Design
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