Lead Motion Design Technologist (UX Design/ Dev)

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.
To help our teams work together, we are targeting this role to the Pacific Time Zone.
Your future team
We're looking for an experienced UX designer/engineer with a strong understanding of animation frameworks (motion.dev, GSAP, etc.) and platforms (After Effects, rive.app, Lottiefiles, etc.), to help define, polish, and implement premium motion design, and express value back to our customers through engaging animation across our products. As a individual contributor in an organization consisting of multiple teams across Australia, North America, and India, you will work with cross functional partners over a broad range of platforms and surfaces to find new ways to effectively design and implement performant motion interaction, animated data, creation flows or setup wizards, micro-interactions (buttons, likes, stars, check boxes, et al), splash screens, first run, app launch, etc.
In this role, you will:

• Elevate the motion design and implementation pipeline of Atlassian products and provide a clear and actionable opinion for why, where, and when we implement for impact across our offerings.
• Be accountable for delivering high-quality design and implementation solutions and outcomes across multiple work-streams, products, and/or platforms while understanding the complex relationships between various products to drive better design outcomes
• Prioritize multiple project/program plans, making decisions about priorities, timing, and resources while consistently displaying mastery of tasks and processes
• Clearly define and communicate project or program goals and offer consistent coaching to others to adjust priorities or timelines as needed.
• Use advanced motion design principles and techniques to shape product strategy through storytelling.
• Use your expertise in motion design and implementation to show opportunities for how motion can improve usability, visual appeal, perceived performance, and brand cohesiveness.
• Use a range of pre-visualization techniques such as scripting, storyboarding, and animatics to facilitate input and collaboration.
• Be comfortable with a variety of tools for video editing, 3D animation and motion graphics, and stay current on these tools (and embedded workflows) to ensure you make the right choice for the situation.
• Understand and use advanced layouts and grids to create visually appealing, functional and user-friendly designs
• Take initiative in merging different design elements into a unified system, ensuring consistency in branding and user experience across platforms
• Independently understand, interpret, and apply visual design to a product or service experience, ensuring that the aesthetics align with objectives and user needs.
• Adapting and refine existing systems and architectures to create efficient and effective experiences.
• Accountable for driving formative and summative research planning at a program/portfolio level, including long-term studies, which helps in prioritizing research execution to align with strategic business goals.
• Identify actionable, opinionated insights and design recommendations, and drive the coordinated implementation of design improvements based on these research recommendations.
• Participate in and help drive design reviews and be a design craft leader and coach to other designers to help ensure consistent and cohesive experiences
• Identify success metrics ensuring design solutions continue to deliver customer value
• Collaborate with some of the industry's smartest (and nicest) people. You'll work with Engineers, Product Managers, Content Designers, Researchers, Marketing Experts, and Analysts to advocate for the user experience in our products and ship high-quality work

Your background:

• 8+ years of 2D and 3D visual design and animation experience across complex, data dense, and/or enterprise-level product design and branding contexts
• Experience in creating and delivering strategic org wide design programs which impact multiple delivery teams
• Experience in end-to-end UX/product design to design impactful solutions to challenging problems
• Passion for story-telling, the ability to bring design direction to life with compelling narrative
• Experience balancing customer needs with business goals, market viability, and technical feasibility
• Facilitation and cross-functional collaboration skills: you can demonstrate the ability to integrate the work of multiple teams, solicit and synthesize feedback, and facilitate design discussions that lead company wide outcomes and positively influence future delivery roadmaps.
• Experience in design systems, the ability to identify common components required to support a wide array of customer use cases.
• Experience measuring success with qualitative and quantitative methods
• Experience improving process and methodology to increase product value, team velocity and accelerate adoption of new capabilities
• High level of proficiency with industry standard design tools: Figma, Creative Cloud, C4D or Blender, Redshift or Octane, ProtoPie, Rive, or LottieFiles, etc.
• Learn-it-all mindset. Eagerness to learn and challenge yourself in the face of a fast changing design industry landscape.
• Nice-to-have: video editing, compositing, or sound design skills.

Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive 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 ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or 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: $188,700 - $251,600
Zone B: $169,900 - $226,500
Zone C: $156,600 - $208,900
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 .