Senior Design Manager, Jira AI

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About Jira
Jira helps teams across every industry plan, track, and deliver their work. Hundreds of thousands of organizations - from startups to Fortune 500 engineering teams - rely on it every day. As AI changes how teams collaborate, Jira is evolving from a tool teams operate into a platform that works alongside them.
About the Role
This role sits at the center of Jira's AI transformation: building experiences where agentic systems and human teams work together. You'll lead the design vision for how Jira evolves into an intelligent platform - one where agents plan, execute, and collaborate as teammates.
The work goes beyond adding AI to existing surfaces. You'll define what Jira becomes when agents are first-class participants: how they take direction, report progress, negotiate tradeoffs, and earn trust. This requires a designer who thinks in systems, brings deep technical fluency, and can align a cross-functional organization around a compelling, well-articulated vision.
You'll lead a team of 8-12 designers and partner closely with product and engineering leadership - building together with heart and balance while keeping craft standards high.
Why Now?
Jira is in the early stages of a multi-year transformation around agentic AI. The design patterns, trust frameworks, and interaction models for this new paradigm haven't been established yet - they need a leader to define them. This is the moment to join: early enough to shape the direction, with enough organizational commitment to make it real.
This role is built for designers who have shaped agentic or platform-level AI experiences. If that's your background, this is where that work reaches its largest audience.
Key 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

Candidate Profile
What You Bring

• 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

What Would Set You Apart

• 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

Strategic Importance & Opportunities

• Jira is Atlassian's flagship product - this role shapes how its largest user base experiences AI
• Agentic systems are the next platform shift. This role defines how Jira stays ahead as the competitive landscape evolves
• Greenfield opportunity: the design language, interaction patterns, and trust models for agent collaboration in Jira don't exist yet - your team will create them
• Work alongside talented, collaborative teams who take the mission seriously without taking themselves too seriously

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: USD 267300 - USD 348975
Zone B: USD 241200 - USD 314900
Zone C: USD 222300 - USD 290225
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 .