Design Manager at Atlassian | Web Directions Jobs

Are you passionate about improving product usability and design?

Do you want to be inspired by working with the best and brightest?

Would you rather work for David than Goliath?

If so, Atlassian may be the place for you!

Imagine working somewhere you get to do what you love everyday. We are a six-year young software development company revolutionising the way software is sold and used by businesses world-wide. With a range of innovative software products we have over 11,500 customers globally including NASA, Sony, BHP Billiton and the United Nations. We are building a different kind of software company — one that listens to client needs, values innovation and solves customer problems with brilliant simplicity. We have been in the BRW top 10 fastest growing companies for the past 5 years, and with forecast headcount growth of 50%, we have no plans to slow down!

We are not your typical company and proud of it! Working for the fastest growing global Australian software company you can expect a fast paced and exciting work environment which stays true to our entrepreneurial roots. You won’t get frustrated with bureaucracy and slow decision making and we encourage (not stifle!) creative thinking and want to know your opinion – on everything we do!

What you’ll do:

Working in our Sydney CBD Head Office as Design Manager, you’ll lead our talented team of UI and visual designers and work with us on improving the usability and design of our popular and award-winning products.

You’ll be responsible for developing and advocating the vision for the Design Team, and for providing mentoring and guidelines on user-centered and interface design. You’ll conduct user research to evaluate the usability of our products, and use this data to identify and recommend design improvements to the product managers.

We’re serious about quality and innovation, so you’ll be promoting design quality and usability as a core part of Atlassian’s product development culture. We invest a lot in our process, so you’ll be helping to evaluate the Design Team’s performance and agile process, looking for ways to optimise interactions with product management, development, marketing, and the rest of the Atlassian team. We’re also serious about our customers, so you’ll be responsible for ensuring the Design Team’s project commitments are consistently achieved.

Who we are looking for:

Essential:

• Qualification in Computing Science, Interface Design, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years experience working with design teams in a software development environment
• Current understanding of trends in XHTML, JS and CSS coding and practice, user experience, interface design and graphics
• Proactive and pragmatic team management approach

• Strong communication, organisation and planning skills

Preferred Skills:

• 2+ years of directly managing people, including interviewing, hiring, training, and performance appraisals
• Broad knowledge of the software industry and software development project lifecycles

• We use an agile development process; any experience working with agile-style methodologies is a plus.

More about us:

With offices in Sydney, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Gdansk we offer global opportunities for development and the chance to work with like minds from different cultures.

We match the big players in terms of competitive salary and benefits and still are able to offer huge LCD screens, large desks, ergonomic Aeron chairs, choice of computing platform (max/pc/unix), poker tournaments and Wii game nights, indoor bike racks/showers and awesome company events.

Read what some of our team members have to say about life at Atlassian:

“The culture is so refreshing compared to my previous employment in large corporations. The openness of information, the willingness to use new technology (such as using wikis instead of Word documents), daily stand-up meetings to promote communication without the drudgery of long meetings, the honesty of the product offering—they make me love coming to work each day.”

— John Rotenstein, internal systems

“It’s been fun from the first interview … I still can’t quite believe that this qualifies as ‘work’.”

— Kate Ellingburg, sr. developer

“Working for Atlassian honestly makes me wonder why other companies can’t get it right . . . this is how work should be.”

— Michael Seager, sales team member{quote}

Apply Now, this opportunity won’t last long!

Send a covering letter outlining why you are best suited to the position and resume to: jobs@atlassian.com

Find out more about Atlassian and view all job descriptions at the Atlassian Website

Atlassian’s global head office is located in Sussex Street, Sydney.