Senior Design Manager, Jira AI

Atlassian develops collaboration and productivity software, including Jira, which helps teams plan, track, and deliver work. The Senior Design Manager will lead the design vision for Jira’s agentic AI transformation, manage a team of 8–12 designers, and partner with product and engineering leadership to create trusted, scalable AI experiences.

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