Design Manager

Overview:

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.

Responsibilities:

Atlassian's Admin Experience team is seeking a passionate and strategic Design Manager to lead a talented group of designers across critical initiatives that power the Admin Hub and broader Global Administration Experiences, ultimately unlocking and enabling the Atlassian System of Work for millions of users worldwide.

As the Design Manager, you will be responsible for shaping the vision, strategy, and execution of admin experiences that scale across Atlassian's platform. You'll partner deeply with product, engineering, research, and content to deliver seamless, intuitive, and impactful solutions for our customers. You'll also play a key role in growing and mentoring design talent, fostering a culture of inclusion, psychological safety, and high performance.

• Lead and inspire: Manage, coach, and develop a high-performing team of product and content designers, helping them grow their craft and impact.
• Set strategy: Define and drive the Admin Experience design strategy, ensuring alignment with Atlassian's platform vision and business goals.
• Cross-functional partnership: Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineering Leads, and other cross-functional partners to shape roadmaps, define priorities, and deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Craft excellence: Establish and maintain a high-quality bar for design work, championing customer-centric design thinking and practices.
• Team operations: Oversee team rhythms, reporting, and rituals (e.g., crits, design reviews, onboarding), supported by Design Ops.
• Recruitment & onboarding: Lead hiring and onboarding for new designers, ensuring a smooth and inclusive experience.
• Champion collaboration: Model and foster healthy triad (Design, Product, Engineering) partnerships, and drive cross-team alignment.
• Drive impact: Foster a culture of continuous improvement, enabling the team to deliver exceptional results for the Admin Experience.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience managing design teams, with a proven track record of developing talent and delivering high-craft, high-impact work.
• Experience leading platform or complex conceptual model work, ideally in SaaS or enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated ability to set vision and strategy, and break it down into actionable, deliverable pieces.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence at all levels—including senior leadership.
• Hands-on experience as a product designer; you know what it takes to ship great design.
• Deeply customer-focused, with a passion for building experiences that scale and delight.
• Experience working with distributed teams and collaborating across time zones.
• A self-starter with a growth mindset, curiosity, and a drive for continuous improvement.
• Based in Australia, with the ability to work closely with the local team.

• Shape the future of Atlassian's admin platform and impact millions of users.
• Join a high-performing, inclusive, and supportive design team.
• Work on complex, high-visibility problems at scale.
• Enjoy Atlassian's flexible work environment, generous benefits, and commitment to learning and growth.

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

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.

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