Director of Design, Jira AI

Job title: Director of Design, Jira AI

About the Role

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. You’ll lead a team of 8–12 designers and partner closely with product and engineering leadership, building craft standards and aligning a cross-functional organization around a compelling vision.

What You'll Do

• Define and drive the design vision for Jira's agentic AI experiences — what Jira looks and feels like when agents are native collaborators

• Set the direction for multi-year product evolution and build alignment across product, engineering, and executive leadership

• Lead a team of 8–12 designers: setting craft standards, developing talent, and fostering an inclusive team culture

• Partner with engineering to navigate the technical constraints of agent architectures, LLM behavior, and platform design

• Drive experimentation — MVPs, prototypes, concept sprints — to validate new interaction paradigms before scaling them

• Own end-to-end design quality of shipped AI experiences across Jira surfaces

• Contribute to the broader design organization's approach to AI-native product design

• Coordinate across AI platform, ecosystem design, and adjacent product teams to ensure connected, coherent experiences

• What We're Looking For

• Direct experience designing for agentic systems, AI platforms, or autonomous workflows — not just AI-assisted features

• 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

• Nice to Have

• Background in developer tools, project management, or productivity platforms

• Experience at companies building agent infrastructure, whether established organizations or earlier-stage ventures

• Familiarity with the enterprise project management landscape and the teams who use these tools daily

• Track record of building and retaining strong, diverse design teams

• Experience working across organizational boundaries where collaboration and influence matter as much as craft

• Compensation & Benefits

• In the United States, three geographic pay zones. Zone A: $221,400 - $289,050; Zone B: $199,200 - $260,145; Zone C: $183,700 - $239,912

• This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity

• Benefits and perks include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and more.