OverviewAbout the RoleAs a Lead Design Technologist, you lead projects and make decisions that impact multiple departments. You are responsible for delivering high-quality, scalable design technology solutions that enable all product builders across Atlassian, enabling PM/Eng/Design peers, and driving innovation in prototyping, motion, and AI-led design workflows.
You'll join the Design Technology team within the Core Design org reporting to the Senior Manager for Design Technology. Design Technologists are a multidisciplinary group building the foundational tools, components, and AI-native product builder workflows that power the user experience across all Atlassian apps. Members of our team come from diverse backgrounds including design, engineering, and product with a focus on both the product builder and user experience.
The 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 product building culture, champion best practices, and accelerate innovation through AI tooling and AI-toolchain workflow improvements for all of Atlassian Design.
Responsibilities- Deliver high-quality design technology solutions across multiple workstreams or domains.
- 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.
CompensationAt Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
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.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Pay RangesIn 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: $192,600 - $251,450
Zone B: $173,340 - $226,305
Zone C: $159,858 - $208,704
Qualifications- 7+ years experience leading a high-performing design or design technology craft domain
- Experience building interactive and rich media experiences that showcase motion, interaction design, and high visual craft
- Fluent with the latest AI product building workflows and fundamentals (agentic loops, generative UI/UX, evals, and context engineering best practices)
- Strong skills in front-end engineering concepts, prototyping, AI tools, as well as integrations with visual design tools such as Figma.
- Experience mentoring and coaching others.
- Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to a wide audience.
- Ability to drive cross-functional projects and influence stakeholders.
- Familiarity with AI/ML, motion, and accessibility in design.
Benefits & PerksAtlassian 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 
