Working at Atlassian

Atlassians have the flexibility to work where they can collaborate most effectively with their team, whether at home, one of our global offices, or both.

As a distributed-first company, all interviews are conducted virtually. We hire in any country where we have a legal entity. Learn how we work at go.atlassian.com/distributed.

Your Future Org

Atlassian’s Intern program combines hands-on technical design training, professional growth opportunities, dedicated mentorship, and building strong professional connections. This holistic approach empowers students to hit the ground running and sets them up for a successful and impactful career at Atlassian.

This role is located in the Pacific Time Zone (PT). You must be willing and able to work out of this time zone to qualify.

This position is not eligible for F1 and J1 students. It is not available for any work sponsorship.

Our paid internship program runs for 12 weeks between May/June 2027 - August/September 2027.

Your Future Team

Atlassian helps teams unleash their potential through the Teamwork Graph, the intelligent context layer powering 85% of the Fortune 500. Over 300,000 customers globally, including NASA, SpaceX, Netflix, Spotify, Airbnb, and the Atlassian Williams Racing Formula 1 team, all use our apps to build AI-first experiences through a transformed SDLC.

As a Product Design Intern, you’ll work on real design challenges that solve for the beautiful mess of modern work and gain firsthand insight into how we are transforming the way work gets done in an AI-first company. Atlassian Design turns complex teamwork into clear, connected, and inclusive experiences. You’ll work alongside designers, product managers, and engineers across our global organization, learning how to understand real customer problems, explore and test ideas, communicate decisions, and turn them into high-quality technical prototypes with our world-class AI tooling.

We’re building an AI-native company and rethinking how people and intelligent systems work together. Our teams are exploring new interaction models for AI, including Rovo and AI-powered experiences across Jira, Confluence, and our wider cloud platform. If you’re curious, collaborative, and excited to make a difference while learning from a global design community, Atlassian is the place to start your career and help build the future of teamwork.

Responsibilities

Apply strong interaction, visual, and systems-design craft to turn ambiguous customer problems into simple, accessible product experiences across Atlassian products.
Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and senior designers to understand customer needs, evaluate technical constraints, and make informed design decisions.
Use research insights, product data, technical prototyping and usability testing to explore assumptions, iterate quickly and improve the quality of shipped experiences.
Contribute to design systems, patterns and documentation while learning how AI and connected teamwork shape modern collaboration at scale.

Minimum Qualifications

Able to commit to a 12 week full-time (40hrs/week) program during Summer 2027
Currently enrolled full-time in a 4-year bachelors or 2-year masters degree program and returning to the program after the completion of the internship, graduating by June 2028
Please note: At this time, this role is only open to entry-level candidates with less than a year of professional experience (this does not include internships/co-ops)

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with user-focused design
Demonstrate the ability to plan while juggling multiple simultaneous projects
Experience collaborating with team members, like engineers and product managers, and other designers

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.

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.

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

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: $50/hr - $56/hr

Zone B: $45/hr - $50/hr

Zone C: $41/hr - $46/hr

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit https://www.atlassian.com/company/careers/earlycareers.

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.

In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

Product Design Intern, 2027 Summer U.S. - San Francisco, CA, USA