Lead Design Technologist

Working at Atlassian
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About the Role
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'll 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'll 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.
Key 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.

Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $189,000 - $246,750
Zone B: $170,100 - $222,075
Zone C: $157,500 - $205,625
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
Benefits & Perks
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 go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
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 .