Lead Design Technologist

3 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Atlassian Full time
Overview

As a Lead Product Designer (Design Technologist), you lead broader projects and make decisions that impact multiple departments. You are responsible for delivering high-quality, scalable design technology solutions, mentoring others, and driving innovation in prototyping, motion, and AI-led design.


You will join the Atlassian Design System (ADS), reporting to the Senior Design Manager for Design Technology within ADS, a multidisciplinary group building the foundational tools, components, and guidelines that power the user experience across all Atlassian apps. The ADS team partners closely with product, engineering, and accessibility experts to create scalable, inclusive, and coherent design solutions at enterprise scale. You will shape the future of Atlassian's prototyping culture, champion best practices, and accelerate innovation through AI tooling and AI-toolchain workflow improvements for all of Atlassian Design.


Responsibilities
  • Deliver high-quality design technology solutions across multiple workstreams or domains.
  • AI literacy applied to prototyping and AI vibe coding tools
  • Champion rapid prototyping, user testing, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Mentor and guide less experienced designers and technologists.
  • Identify and implement opportunities to enhance design workflows through custom tooling and automation.
  • Solve complex design technology issues, optimizing processes and leveraging AI/LLMs.
  • Demonstrate advanced skills in JS frameworks, prototyping, and motion design.
  • Lead the co-creation of sense-making artifacts (blueprints, models) to communicate design concepts.
  • Drive adoption of best practices in design technology and contribute to continuous improvement.

Qualifications
  • 7+ years experience leading a high-performing design or design technology craft domain
  • Advanced experience in design technology, prototyping, and front-end development.
  • Strong skills in React, JS frameworks, prototyping AI tools as well as integrations and plugins for Figma.
  • Experience mentoring and coaching others.
  • Ability to drive cross-functional projects and influence stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML, motion, and accessibility in design.

Benefits & Perks

At Atlassian, we offer 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


About Atlassian

At Atlassian, we are 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 never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. We can support accommodations or adjustments during recruitment; inform our Recruitment team during your conversation. To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit


Seniority level
  • Mid-Senior level

Employment type
  • Full-time

Job function
  • Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

Industries
  • Software Development

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