Brody MacLean

Available for my next role from July '26
A designer and leader with 15+ years shaping digital products and the teams that build them.

Brody is a multi-disciplinary design leader based in Sydney Opera House Sydney, Australia.

SafetyCulture team at Figma event Brody MacLean presenting at the Prospa brand launch
Brody MacLean

Intro

With 15+ years of experience in product design, I've built a career spanning product strategy, design systems, AI features, and design leadership — working across startups, scale-ups, and enterprise organisations to ship high-quality, user-centred products.

I'm equally comfortable leading and growing design teams as I am getting hands-on with components, Figma libraries, and cross-functional delivery.

A natural curiosity keeps me at the intersection of design and technology, constantly exploring how emerging tools — particularly AI — can raise the bar for both product experience and design practice.

Work highlights

2024 - 2026

Atlassian

Design Lead

Led the design and integration of AI UI components within the Atlassian Design System, bridging AI patterns, brand principles, and front-end implementation to deliver accessible, production-ready controls.

Owned the end-to-end component lifecycle — from high-fidelity Figma assets and visual specs to UX documentation and cross-team pattern adoption.

Prior to this, I drove the end-to-end delivery for Automation's Business Process Automation initiative and a visual refresh that enabled key design OKRs and cross-functional business goals. Working closely with engineering, product, and design stakeholders, I mentored junior designers and aligned design strategy with customer needs and business objectives.

AI Design Kit

Design system, Figma libraries, docs

Rovo brand refresh

Product & UI design

Rovo nudge and chat

Product & UI design

Automation redesign

Builder redesign

Systems and UI design

Business Process Automation

UX, UI design, strategy

2022 - 2024

Prospa

Design System Lead

Led the design systems team at Prospa, unifying divergent design and code across products to significantly reduce design and development debt while driving the end-to-end implementation of a company-wide rebrand.

Managed and grew the team through hiring, mentoring, and performance development, and partnered with senior leadership to shape a multi-year systems roadmap and future product design vision.

Prospa redesign

Salt Design System

Brand, strategy, UI design

Prospa redesign

Prospa redesign

UI design, brand, systems, strategy

Prospa design tokens

Developing a scalable design token taxonomy for Prospa's Design System

Coming soon

2021 - 2022

SafetyCulture Care fka Mitti

Principal Product Designer

Led the 0-to-1 design of SafetyCulture Care's risk mitigation product, establishing the UI/UX patterns and remote-first design processes that underpinned the MVP launch.

Hired and managed the design team, providing mentorship, performance development, and hands-on leadership to build out the practice from the ground up.

Mitti ui design

MVP

UX, UI design, brand, strategy

Mitti Rewards

Rewards

Growth design

2019 - 2020

Deputy

Design System Lead

Led the development and growth of Deputy's design system, Copilot, with an initial focus on reducing design and technical debt ahead of a rebrand while migrating the design library from Sketch to Figma.

Defined and documented emerging design patterns throughout the transition, ensuring consistency and minimising friction across the product and design team.

Requirement gathering workshop

Requirement gathering workshop

Design systems, strategy, collaboration

Figma migration

Figma migration and upskilling

Design tooling

Hackathon project

Growth hackaton

Marketing, growth, brand

2018 - 2019

Jobadder

Head of Design

Led and mentored a team of five designers across product and marketing, working closely with the CEO and Head of Product to shape the roadmap, formalise design processes, and establish Venom — JobAdder's design system.

Spearheaded a full UX and UI redesign across multiple product lines, introducing consistency through a Sketch component library and laying the foundation for a unified design practice.

Venom

Venom design system

UI design kit

Jobadder Nav Redesign

Nav redesign

UX, UI design, strategy

Design Jam

Design jams

Team bonding, process, critique

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