Senior Design Manager, Atlassian Administration

Overview

Atlassian Administration is on a mission to make admins our strongest advocates by building a centralized mission control – Admin Hub – that equips administrators with visibility, control, and ease of use across their organization’s cloud footprint. We empower admins to operate efficiently, scale with Atlassian, and orchestrate collaboration across teams.

As Senior Design Manager, you will lead the strategy, execution, and craft excellence for Admin UX/UI, ensuring clarity, usability, and consistency across all admin experiences. You’ll oversee multiple workstreams and collaborate with teams across Atlassian to build scalable solutions for governance, security, user and product management, and insights. Your leadership will shape how admins configure, manage, and grow their organizations, aligning with the Atlassian System of Work and driving impact across business and user outcomes.

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will

• Lead and mentor a team of designers, fostering a culture of craft excellence, collaboration, and innovation in admin experience design.

• Define and execute the design strategy for Atlassian Administration, creating a scalable Admin Hub that empowers admins to configure, manage, and govern their organizations effectively.

• Drive a scalable and cohesive admin experience across key workstreams, including user and access management, security and governance, product and app integrations, admin insights and analytics, and information architecture for Admin UX.

• Ensure Admin Hub is extensible and easy to contribute to, allowing other teams across Atlassian to build admin-facing experiences efficiently while maintaining consistency and quality.

• Improve admin productivity by optimizing key workflows, including notifications, search, task management, and automation, ensuring admins can work efficiently at scale.

• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Research, and Data Science to align admin experiences with business needs, technical constraints, and evolving user expectations.

• Balance long-term vision with near-term execution, ensuring iterative improvements contribute to a more cohesive and scalable admin platform.

• Identify risks and remove blockers, proactively driving alignment across Atlassian teams to deliver high-quality admin solutions.

• Champion process improvements that streamline admin workflows, governance models, and cross-team collaboration, ensuring Admin Hub scales efficiently.

To be successful here, we think you will need to have

• Experience: 10+ years in product design, including 2+ years leading design teams in a platform or SaaS environment.

• Strategic Leadership: Experience defining and executing design strategies for complex, multi-product ecosystems, with a focus on governance, security, and administrative workflows.

• Design Craft & Execution: Strong background in interaction design, systems thinking, and UX for enterprise and admin interfaces, with a track record of delivering high-impact, scalable solutions.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ability to align stakeholders, influence leadership, and drive execution across multiple workstreams.

• Enterprise & Platform UX Knowledge: Deep understanding of admin needs, governance models, compliance, permissions, and access management in cloud-based platforms.

• Process Improvement & Change Leadership: A track record of enhancing design workflows, breaking down silos, and driving efficiency at scale.

• Communication & Influence: Ability to present and advocate for design decisions, ensuring clarity across technical and executive audiences.

• Bonus: Large Scale Enterprise SaaS companies with relevant Administration Experience.

Qualifications

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: $216,500 - $288,700

Zone B: $194,900 - $259,800

Zone C: $179,700 - $239,600

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.

Our perks & benefits

Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.

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.