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Atlassian · 4 hours ago

Lead Designer, Platform Foundations

Atlassian is a company focused on unleashing the potential of every team through their software products. They are seeking a Lead Product Designer for the Platform Foundations team to design features enhancing cloud security offerings for enterprise customers.

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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Lead the design strategy for security offerings, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs
Own and deliver high-quality design solutions across multiple workstreams or a domain area, prioritizing projects, resources, and timelines to maximize business and user impact
Elevate the quality of product design within your team, mentoring designers and fostering a culture of critique, learning, and continuous improvement
Define, socialize, and evolve design standards, systems, and patterns for security and compliance, ensuring consistency and scalability across products
Partner with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define and execute the broader Platform Foundations strategy, facilitating alignment and shared vision
Drive and advocate for design research best practices, synthesizing insights to inform and validate design decisions, and ensuring solutions are data-informed and user-centered
Provide coaching and feedback to less senior designers, lead design critiques, and build relationships across Atlassian and with external partners to strengthen the design community

Qualification

SaaS product designSecurity design experienceEnd-to-end product designFigmaUser research methodsAgile product developmentEmpathy for usersDesign critiquesMentoring designersAICommunicationCollaboration with teams

Required

8+ years of experience designing complex SaaS or enterprise products, ideally in security, identity, or admin tooling
Proven ability to lead design for technically challenging domains and deliver high-impact features at scale
Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design, from discovery and research through to polished UI and shipped features
Experience collaborating with distributed teams and navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
Deep empathy for users – especially admins and security professionals – and a passion for solving their toughest problems
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design decisions and rationale to cross-functional partners
Familiarity with Figma, user research methods, and agile product development
Experience designing for AI and with AI as part of your design workflow

Preferred

Experience with security, authentication, or compliance products
Experience working with US-based teams

Benefits

Health and wellbeing resources
Paid volunteer days

Company

Atlassian

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Atlassian is a software company that offers proprietary software products for teamwork, project management, and software development.

H1B Sponsorship

Atlassian has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (263)
2024 (184)
2023 (190)
2022 (259)
2021 (156)
2020 (162)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$210M
Key Investors
T. Rowe PriceAccel
2015-12-10IPO
2014-04-08Secondary Market· $150M
2010-07-14Series A· $60M

Leadership Team

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Michael Cannon-Brookes
CEO and Co-Founder
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Scott Farquhar
Co-Founder and Board Member
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