User Interface Designer / Atlassian, Inc. / San Francisco, CA
Atlassian, Inc./San Francisco, CAYou're a designer and a thinker. You inhale complex UI requirements and exhale beautiful visualisations of how applications look and behave. You think and communicate visually using sketches, wire-framing, Photoshop mockups, and interactive prototypes to model your solutions to the tough problems of UI design. You've honed your craft over the years and can visualise, iterate, execute, and validate designs at lightning speed. Your designs grace products used by thousands or hundreds of thousands. You're a consummate collaborator, and you're picky about who you work with.
* Lead and build an agile User Experience practice for a thriving development workflow and collaboration product
* Design elegant interfaces for our globally acclaimed development tools
* Join an agile design practice where you'll have a high level of ownership
* Teach, learn and give back to the community in an open, unique company
POSITION SUMMARY
You'll be the lead UI designer for a small, nimble team of developers. You'll be located with them, in San Francisco. You'll have ongoing responsibility for improving the quality and innovation of the user interface of one of our core products.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
* Be the primary advocate for user goals and needs – maximise user productivity and reduce complexity
* Drive constant improvements in user experience quality and innovation
* Produce user, task, and product models in a variety of visual and interactive formats
* Create production-quality visual assets and icons for the development teams
* Share your knowledge and skills
* Lead the user experience strategy for this product
KEY SKILLS
* UI wireframing in Visio, Balsamiq, OmniGraffle, Illustrator or pen & paper
* Extensive experience in Adobe Photoshop producing pixel-perfect screen designs
* Strong grasp of underlying web application technologies: HTML, CSS, DOM, and various JavaScript libraries
* Ability to distill complex relationships and concepts into understandable user models
* Experience interacting directly with users and managing long-term customer relationships
* Experience in Information Architecture, Information Design, Screen Layout and Interaction Design
* Strong negotiation skills
* Outcome-driven work style
* Otherworldly personal time management skills
TYPICAL EXPERIENCE
* Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent demonstrated experience
* 3+ years experience designing the user interface on web applications and graphic illustrations
LOVE GOING TO WORK?
Imagine working in a place where you get to do what you love every day. We are an eight-year young software development company that is revolutionising the way software is sold and used by businesses world-wide. With a range of innovative software products, we have over 20,000 customers globally including NASA, Sony, the Apache Foundation 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 are not your typical company and proud of it! If you start your career with Australia's fastest growing global 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 creative thinking. We want to know your opinion -- on everything we do!
YOUR DREAM JOB
With offices in Sydney, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Gdansk we offer global opportunities and the chance to work with like-minds from different cultures. Each day you come to work at Atlassian, you will be coming to work in an open plan office filled with lots of natural light. When you are not sitting in your comfy ergonomic Aeron chair, working on your large LCD monitors and the operating system of your choice, there will be plenty of decisions to make. Maybe you'd like to participate in a lunchtime card game? Would you rather play a Wii Sports game or be a guitar hero? If hunger strikes, head to the kitchen for drinks, fresh fruit, snacks and more. Your choice!
We've also recently been recognized as one of the 2010's 25 Best Small Companies to Work For from the Great Place to Work® Institute in the U.S.!
Check out a short video created by Atlassian staff on our values via our website.
"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
"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 memberApply To Job
