Lead Design Technologist

About the role

As 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. 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 prototyping culture, champion best practices, and accelerate innovation through AI tooling and AI-toolchain workflow improvements for all of Atlassian Design.

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. This role has a preference you be located in the San Francisco Bay Area or US West Coast, but we can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

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.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience leading a high-performing design or design technology craft domain
• 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

Pay

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: $192,600 - $251,450
• Zone B: $173,340 - $226,305
• Zone C: $159,858 - $208,704

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.

Benefits

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 more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.