Lead Principal Technical Program Manager

Engineering | Seattle, United States | Remote, Remote | Full-Time

We're hiring the Lead Principal Technical Program Manager for Foundations.

This is the most senior Individual Contributor TPM role at Atlassian covering wide and most foundational parts of our technical stack (Compute, Network, Data Platform, Identity, Security, Reliability, to name a few).

In this role you will bring leadership necessary to transform and drive some of the most critical company-wide initiatives.

In this role, you will demonstrate innovative thinking, collaborative problem-solving skills, as well as a passion for working in a highly cross-functional environment. This is a unique opportunity to influence and make some of the most critical technical decisions across the company. You will be working with world-class engineering teams and experts evolving the most foundational aspects of Atlassian's technical stack while breaking down technical barriers and strengthening existing systems.

As one of the most senior members of the TPM team, you will also shape the TPM craft, which is still in a formation stage. We envision TPMs to have strong technical depth, ability to shape product strategy and drive its execution in close collaboration with stakeholders across numerous crafts and product areas.

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.

• Analyze the current state of Foundations, business objectives, customer needs, product adoption inhibitors, industry trends, and based on these, in close collaboration with your stakeholders, define long-term strategy and roadmap for Foundations.
• Ensure translation of the strategy and platform/product requirements into technical requirements and solutions in collaboration with your partner teams and engineering counterparts.
• Streamline the execution of the articulated roadmap. Evangelize adoption/usage of the platform and tools across Atlassian executives and product teams.
• While this list highlights the most common responsibilities, I want to emphasize the importance of the sense of ownership that you will have for your platforms and products, programs. This means that you will need to proactively identify any inhibitors, issues or opportunities, and proactively address them yourself or find the right owners to do so. The bottom line is that you are a true owner of your area and the buck stops with you.
• As a senior member of the Foundations org, you will be driving some of the most complex, cross-divisional projects/initiatives. This will likely include managing complex dependencies and projects with a broad scope across the company

• 15+ years on software teams as TPM, Engineer, Engineering Manager or PM
• Analyzing business priorities, customer needs, industry trends and articulating a long-term roadmap for your area of responsibilities
• Translating customer and/or product requirements into technical requirements
• Influencing architecture or technical design, by leveraging subject matter expertise and technical depth that you built in your previous roles
• Driving projects spanning multiple orgs, including negotiating and reaching agreement with your partners and stakeholders, shepherding the project while identifying and mitigating risks, making trade-off decisions optimizing the outcome
• Rich experience building large-scale commercial Cloud Services and PaaS

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.