Content Designer, Design Systems

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.
This is a remote position based in Australia or New Zealand. With a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we're able to hire eligible candidates for this role from any location in Australia and New Zealand.
Your future team
The Atlassian Design System enables software makers to craft quality interfaces at scale, creating intuitive, beautiful and harmonious experiences from our self-service guidelines. Our design language allows our customers to use a familiar interface across every Atlassian product.
The Atlassian Design System team is a remote-friendly team of developers, designers, content designers and product managers.
As the Content Designer, you will report to the Design Manager. You are a passionate writer with experience creating user-centric guidelines and documentation. You'll collaborate with designers and engineers to document the Atlassian Design System in a way that is easy for consumers of the system to find and use.
What you'll do

• Help deliver our roadmap by partnering with engineers, product managers and other designers to evolve and document the Atlassian Design System.
• Create solutions that meet our goals of self-service adoption.
• Use your understanding of design systems to guide team's implementation of UI Foundations, Components and Patterns.
• Co-create and lead the integration of user-centric design and content principles throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Identify and act upon opportunities to improve our content, processes, and overall user experience.

Your background

• 2+ years of Content Design experience, specifically creating guidelines and documentation, and understanding of Design System theory.
• You have experience in user-centric content design processes, including conducting user research.
• You can show a portfolio that includes UX and technical writing samples, workflows, content templates, style guides, or standards for different content types.
• You have experience publishing and managing content using content management systems and other technical means such as website code.
• You build strong working relationships with cross-functional coworkers.
• You can tell a story and tailor your narrative to relevant audiences.

Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
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 .
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