Atlassian

Principal Technical Program Manager

Atlassian$150K — $180K *
US-AnywhereRemote
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience on software teams as Development Manager or TPM
  • Ability to translate business objectives into technical problems and programs
  • Technical understanding of systems including storage, networking, and capacity management
  • Experience defining and running end-to-end complex technical programs
  • Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze business objectives and define a long-term strategy and roadmap
  • Translate business objectives into prioritized technical systems problems
  • Define specific systems programs and create action plans for realization
  • Partner with engineers and architects to influence solutions
  • Take a systematic approach to engineering problems including prioritizing and scoping
  • Manage the entire lifecycle of technical programs from initiation to budgeting
  • Oversee complex dependencies and projects across the organization.

Benefits

  • Health and wellbeing resources
  • Paid volunteer days
  • Wide range of perks and benefits designed to support employees and families.
Full Job Description
Overview

Responsibilities

The Analytics Platform is Atlassian’s AI-ready data backbone, enabling trusted analytics across cloud environments while simplifying the underlying architecture to make data reliable, discoverable, and cost-effective at scale. By unifying a consistent data foundation, low-latency analytics, and governed access patterns, it helps both people and AI agents move from raw data to self-service insights faster and with greater confidence. The Analytics Platform is the data platform foundation for AI-native experiences such as intelligent assistants, embedded analytics, faster time to first query, and future ML use cases while preserving the reliability, permissions, and metric integrity required for enterprise-grade decision-making.

As a Technical Program Manager, reporting to a Head of TPM on the Analytics Platform team you will define product/program technical strategy. You will create long term vision for the team and associated roadmap for your areas of ownership and ensure buy in from stakeholders. You will leverage deep domain expertise and technical acumen to ensure successful delivery of large cross organization initiatives. You will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of fundamental business challenges, shape technical requirements and collaborate with stakeholders to develop comprehensive solutions. You will utilize your technical expertise to influence solution architecture to meet the emerging needs of the business and contribute to programs and process across organizational boundaries.

What you'll do

  • Analyze business objectives, customer needs, product adoption inhibitors and opportunities, industry trends, and based on these, in close collaboration with your stakeholders, define a long-term strategy and roadmap for your platform and product components.

  • Understand business objectives and translate them into technical systems problems that need to be prioritized solved in the current business environment.

  • Define specific systems programs and create a plan of action for realizing those programs. Such programs could be around capacity planning, migration efforts, high availability, network architecture, performance optimization, reliability improvements and more.

  • Use your technical understanding of Atlassian and related systems to partner with and influence engineers and architects in making progress on these problems.

  • Responsible for taking a systematic approach to engineering problems. This includes: prioritizing tasks, scoping out the project, defining objectives, and making consistent progress against each of these.

  • Be accountable for the success of these technical programs by managing the entire lifecycle from initiation to forecasting, budgeting, scheduling, etc.

  • Manage complex dependencies and projects with a broad scope across the company

Compensation

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.

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

Qualifications
  • 8+ years of experience on software teams as Development Manager or TPM

  • Strategic thinking and ability to understand business objectives to translate them into technical problems and programs.

  • Technical understanding of systems involved. Willingness to develop domain expertise in the area they operate - storage, networking, authentication, capacity management, service deployments, etc.

    • TPMs are not expected to write or read code, but are expected to understand system flows, block architectures, APIs and such.

  • Experience defining and running end-to-end complex technical programs

  • Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills

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

Atlassian is a leading provider of collaboration, development, and issue tracking software for teams. With over 194,000 customers worldwide, including 85 of the Fortune 100, Atlassian is changing the way teams work. Our products help teams organize, discuss, and complete shared work. Atlassian has a unique business model that allows us to deliver software to teams of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises. Our products are available on a subscription basis, with no upfront fees or long-term commitments. Atlassian was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Size
6,433 employees
Market Cap
$31.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.1 billion
Founded
2002
5 Year Trend
+34.9%
Revenue
$1.8 billion
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