Design Lead - Systems

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• 8+ years of professional experience, with a portfolio of ambitious brand systems work and problem-solving at scale.
• A track record of leading complex, multidisciplinary projects and directing other creatives toward a shared vision.
• Deep expertise in the core elements of identity, including typography, color, layout, grid, hierarchy, iconography, and imagery. You bring a clear aesthetic point of view and an uncompromising eye for detail and quality.
• Applied experience building and evolving design systems for brands, with a technical understanding of how they're implemented at scale. You know how type, color, and layout behave across print, web, product, and motion, and you can turn brand decisions into tokens, specs, and assets that teams and engineers can use.
• Strong stakeholder and agency management skills. You build alignment, balance competing priorities, give clear creative direction, and earn the trust of leadership.
• Fluency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and Keynote, and hands-on experience with AI tools for generation, workflow building, and automation.
• A considered point of view on AI's role in brand and creative work. You've used it in real projects, you can judge generated work critically, and you can guide a team on where it helps without lowering the bar.
• A collaborative mindset: you seek out feedback, mentor others, and believe the best work comes from productive debate.

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.

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.

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