Senior UX Research Manager
Content + Source + Freshness • 18 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
The role offers substantial leadership potential in UX research for enterprises, excellent compensation, and opportunities for influencing product development.
- High salary: $218,700 - $285,525/year
- Leadership role in UX research with enterprise focus
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams
Pros
- Competitive salary range ($218,700 - $285,525) reflecting the strategic focus on UX.
- Chance to lead and innovate in a growing enterprise research landscape.
- Collaborative work with cross-functional teams to drive business decisions.
Cons
- Requires strong leadership experience (7+ years managing research teams).
- Ambiguity and complexity in enterprise environments may pose challenges.
- May demand frequent cross-site collaboration affecting work-life balance.
Who it's for
Senior Leadership • Hybrid or Remote
Good fit
- Senior UX research professionals
- Candidates aiming to lead and innovate in enterprise environments
- Individuals passionate about user-centric product development
Not recommended for
- Junior researchers without leadership experience
- Those uncomfortable with ambiguity in research settings
- Candidates preferring conventional research methodologies
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
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.
Responsibilities
You will collaborate with designers, data scientists, product managers, and engineers to create innovative solutions for Atlassian, driving our Enterprise transformation. You will be responsible for identifying, defining, prioritizing and delivering on the critical research needs, delivering measurable impact to the business. Success requires a background in mixed methods research, strong communication, storytelling and leadership skills to drive product vision and inspire innovation.
What You’ll Do
Set and Execute Research Strategy: Identify the critical Enterprise & Platform research priorities, establishing a practice that balances speed and quality of research execution.
Lead and Develop Teams: Manage, mentor, and grow a high-performing, globally distributed team, fostering excellence and an inclusive culture.
Drive Impact and Partnerships: Identify and prioritize high-impact research opportunities, build strong cross-functional partnerships, and deliver insights that guide company decisions.
Scale and Innovate: Extend research influence across the business, champion best-in-class standards and innovative methodologies (including AI), and represent Atlassian externally as a thought leader.
Qualifications
Your background
Leadership & Influence: 7+ years managing and mentoring diverse, distributed research teams (10+ professionals), with a proven ability to build high-trust communities and drive organizational alignment and change at the enterprise level.
Strategic & Research Expertise: 10+ years leading impactful research strategy in complex software environments, applying advanced quantitative and qualitative methods to influence product direction and business decisions, and establishing methodological excellence—including in AI and experimentation.
Enterprise Strategy & Technical Acumen: Deep experience with enterprise-scale products, market strategy, and adoption, supported by an advanced degree (Master’s/PhD) in a relevant field and strong technical skills in mixed-methods research.
Attributes: Thrives in complexity and ambiguity, models resilience and continuous improvement, and is a visible champion of Atlassian’s mission-driven, human-centric values.
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: $218,700 - $285,525
Zone B: $197,100 - $257,325
Zone C: $181,800 - $237,350
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.
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 go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.
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.
