Senior Design Manager, Jira AI

Atlassian is a company dedicated to unleashing the potential of every team through their software products. They are seeking a Senior Design Manager for Jira AI to lead the design vision for Jira's transformation into an intelligent platform, focusing on how human teams and AI agents collaborate effectively.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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