What are the responsibilities and job description for the Design Director position at Atlassian?
Overview
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.
Atlassian is used by teams around the world for everything from pizza deliveries to space travel. To help us achieve our mission of unleashing the potential of every team, the Atlassian Creative Studio is looking for a Design Director to extend our storytelling and reach our ever growing audience. You'll be fully remote and report to a Group Design Director while working with a vibrant, and globally distributed creative team to create impact and delight while pushing the boundaries of our brand and measuring your impact along the way.
Your role as a Designer Director is to be a craft and people-focused leader that helps bring Atlassian products to life through well-crafted visual narratives across all our channels and customer touch points. We are looking for a product-minded designer with experience in storytelling with a portfolio that shows an attention to design details and a process that displays curiosity and collaboration. You will expected to show business impact and produce creative solutions that help our team achieve our goals with thoughtful customer-centric design.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
Your background:
The Creative Studio is Atlassian's dynamic internal creative agency embedded within the marketing organization. Collectively, the team defines, articulates, and scales how millions of users experience and connect with the Atlassian brand from multiple dimensions. Focused on supporting many teams across our entire company, you will be amongst the designers, illustrators, writers, and animators who combine strategy with research, creativity, and craft to build and shape how we're viewed by the world. And we don't want people to just use our products, we want people to love them!
Compensation
At Atlassian, we try to design equitable, explainable, and fair 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 determined by a candidate's skills and 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: $168,100 - $224,200
Zone B: $151,300 - $201,700
Zone C: $139,500 - $186,100
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 .
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.
Atlassian is used by teams around the world for everything from pizza deliveries to space travel. To help us achieve our mission of unleashing the potential of every team, the Atlassian Creative Studio is looking for a Design Director to extend our storytelling and reach our ever growing audience. You'll be fully remote and report to a Group Design Director while working with a vibrant, and globally distributed creative team to create impact and delight while pushing the boundaries of our brand and measuring your impact along the way.
Your role as a Designer Director is to be a craft and people-focused leader that helps bring Atlassian products to life through well-crafted visual narratives across all our channels and customer touch points. We are looking for a product-minded designer with experience in storytelling with a portfolio that shows an attention to design details and a process that displays curiosity and collaboration. You will expected to show business impact and produce creative solutions that help our team achieve our goals with thoughtful customer-centric design.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Initially evolve the Loom brand and establish our product as the market leader in video messaging for work while shaping the personality of Loom as it migrates into the larger ecosystem of Atlassian.
- Support and contribute to the increasingly sophisticated brand landscape and ensure that we communicate with existing and future users in a cohesive and inspiring way.
- Be a brand champion to colleagues across the organization, and work with leadership to develop how brand impacts the business and our growth directly.
- Manage a small team of IC designers that work across multiple brand touchpoints.
- Work on a tight-knit team, alongside with partners from marketing and product design, involved in the end-to-end marketing process from ideation to implementation.
- Dream up, design, and deliver robust web experiences, contribute to integrated campaigns, print pieces, event collateral, and everything in between.
- Push and challenge assumptions through productive debate, which leads to innovation and better outcomes.
- Develop guidelines and direct agency partners to execute on behalf of the Atlassian brand.
Your background:
- 8 years of experience in Brand Design and 2 years of managing creatives, demonstrated with an exciting portfolio that highlights complex design systems. Huge plus if you've worked in a branded house of products or a brand identity evolution.
- Experience collaborating with a diverse team in a culture motivated by innovation, huge plus if you've worked with distant teammates and understand the communication patterns of working with distributed teams.
- A portfolio that showcases projects that demonstrate familiarity with complex brands.
- A deep understanding of the formal elements of design, including typography, layout, and color as well as proven experience with design principles, processes, and the strategy that underpins them.
- A skillset that spans web, print, motion, experiential, and campaign design.
- An appreciation of feedback as a gift.
- Exceptional visual, verbal and written skills.
- A shared belief that collaboration improves creativity.
- Experience working with cross-functional partners in marketing and product design organizations, as well as direct oversight of external partners like agencies and freelancers.
- Confidence in presenting and articulating your work to peers, partners, and leadership.
- Experience in working with illustration and video.
- Expertise with Figma, the Adobe Creative Suite, and collaboration software for presentations.
The Creative Studio is Atlassian's dynamic internal creative agency embedded within the marketing organization. Collectively, the team defines, articulates, and scales how millions of users experience and connect with the Atlassian brand from multiple dimensions. Focused on supporting many teams across our entire company, you will be amongst the designers, illustrators, writers, and animators who combine strategy with research, creativity, and craft to build and shape how we're viewed by the world. And we don't want people to just use our products, we want people to love them!
Compensation
At Atlassian, we try to design equitable, explainable, and fair 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 determined by a candidate's skills and 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: $168,100 - $224,200
Zone B: $151,300 - $201,700
Zone C: $139,500 - $186,100
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 .
Salary : $139,500 - $186,100
