Senior Design Manager, Jira AI

Role Overview

This role sits at the center of Jira's AI transformation: building experiences where agentic systems and human teams work together. You'll lead the design vision for how Jira evolves into an intelligent platform — one where agents plan, execute, and collaborate as teammates.

What You Will Do

Define and drive the design vision for Jira's agentic AI experiences, lead a team of 8–12 designers, partner with engineering to navigate technical constraints, drive experimentation, and own end-to-end design quality of shipped AI experiences.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Direct experience designing for agentic systems, AI platforms, or autonomous workflows, technical depth to collaborate with engineering leaders, track record leading design for complex products, and experience managing and growing teams of 8+ designers.

Requirements

• Direct experience designing for agentic systems, AI platforms, or autonomous workflows
• Technical depth to collaborate as a peer with engineering leaders on architecture, model behavior, and system design
• Track record leading design for complex, large-scale enterprise or developer-facing products
• Demonstrated ability to define a compelling product vision and deliver against it in evolving, ambiguous environments
• Experience managing and growing teams of 8+ designers

Benefits

• health and wellbeing resources
• paid volunteer days
• bonuses
• commissions
• equity