Atlassian

Senior Principal Technical Program Manager

Atlassian • $195K — $307K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Seattle, WA
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years experience as Development Manager or Technical Program Manager
  • Strong strategic thinking to translate business objectives into technical programs
  • Proven understanding of complex systems architecture
  • Willingness to gain deep domain expertise
  • Ability to grasp system flows, block architectures, and APIs without programming skills
  • Experience in managing end-to-end technical programs
  • Exceptional leadership and communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Analyze business objectives and define long-term strategy and roadmap collaboratively
  • Translate business needs into prioritized technical systems problems
  • Create actionable plans for specific systems programs such as machine learning and performance optimization
  • Influence engineering teams using technical knowledge of Atlassian systems
  • Manage the lifecycle of technical programs, including forecasting and budgeting
  • Oversee complex dependencies and projects across the organization

Benefits

  • Health and wellbeing resources
  • Paid volunteer days
  • Variety of perks to support family and community engagement
Full Job Description
Overview

Responsibilities
  • 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 agentic platforms, machine learning systems, enterprise search, conversational AI, performance optimization, reliability improvements, enterprise grade readiness 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.

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.

Pay Ranges

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: $235,800 - $307,850

Zone B: $212,220 - $277,065

Zone C: $195,714 - $255,516

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience on software teams as Development Manager or Technical Program Manager

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

  • Proven technical understanding of systems involved

  • Willingness to develop deep domain expertise in the area they operate

  • 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

Additional Desired Experiences

  • Deep familiarity in Conversational & Generative AI and/or Enterprise Search technologies

  • Proven technical excellence in building and shipping agentic platforms and workflows

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.
Learn more about Atlassian
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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