Atlassian

Services Solutions Advocate

Atlassian$144K — $226K *
US-Anywhere
+ 3 other locationsRemote
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in professional services or enterprise software sales
  • Proven track record of exceeding sales targets in complex environments
  • Experience in pipeline generation and account strategy development
  • Skilled in leading discovery sessions and engaging diverse stakeholders
  • Ability to influence teams and navigate complex sales processes
  • Familiarity with Atlassian products and the enterprise software landscape

Responsibilities

  • Generate demand for professional services by identifying customer needs and shaping opportunities
  • Lead consultative discovery to align services with customer priorities
  • Guide the sales cycle from initial discovery to commercial recommendations and transition to delivery
  • Develop customized services engagements that align with client business objectives
  • Collaborate with Atlassian Sales to create account-level service strategies
  • Engage cross-functional teams to design optimal service engagements for customers
  • Manage and influence enterprise sales opportunities balancing various priorities

Benefits

  • Remote work opportunity supporting various U.S. time zones
  • Access to Atlassian's Partner Ecosystem for expanded service delivery
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams within a global organization
  • Opportunities for professional development and career growth
  • Participation in Atlassian’s competitive equity and bonus programs
Full Job Description
Overview

As the commercial specialist within Professional Services, the Services Solutions Advocate (SSA) drives demand for professional services by partnering with customers to shape the right services engagement for their business needs. Working closely with Atlassian Sales, the SSA helps customers understand their business objectives and recommends the services engagement and delivery model best suited to achieve them, including when to engage the Atlassian Partner Ecosystem.

As a trusted advisor, the SSA works with business and technical decision makers to identify customer priorities, navigate complex opportunities, and align services solutions to customer goals. In doing so, the SSA balances customer value, commercial priorities, and delivery considerations to help customers achieve successful business outcomes.

This is a remote position supporting customers across the United States (Mountain, Central, and Eastern time zones)

Responsibilities
  • Generate and influence professional services pipeline by identifying customer needs, shaping services opportunities, and creating demand throughout the sales cycle

  • Lead consultative discovery to understand customer priorities, business objectives, and organizational challenges

  • Lead the services sales cycle from discovery through commercial recommendations, and facilitating the handover to delivery upon deal close

  • Shape customer-specific services engagements by aligning business objectives with the most appropriate services approach and engagement model

  • Develop account-level services strategies in partnership with Atlassian Sales to identify expansion opportunities ad maximize customer value

  • Bring together cross-functional stakeholders across Atlassian Sales, Professional Services, Customer Success, and the Atlassian Partner Ecosystem to shape the services engagement that best supports customer outcomes

  • Influence complex enterprise opportunities by balancing customer outcomes, commercial priorities, and delivery expectations

  • Own a professional services sales target by delivering services bookings, pipeline growth, forecast accuracy and opportunity management

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: $173,739 - $226,826

Zone B: $156,365 - $204,143

Zone C: $144,203 - $188,266

Qualifications Experience
  • 5+ years of experience in professional services sales, enterprise solution sales, or consultative enterprise software sales

  • Demonstrated success meeting or exceeding sales targets and closing complex, consultative opportunities

  • Experience generating pipeline, developing account-level opportunity strategies, and maintaining accurate forecasts

  • Experience leading discovery and engaging business, technical, and executive stakeholders

  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and navigate complex enterprise sales cycles

  • Experience with the Atlassian ecosystem or enterprise software solutions

Knowledge & Skills
  • Understanding of Atlassian products, including Jira and Confluence, with familiarity across Enterprise Agility, ITSM, DevOps, and Cloud transformation

  • Experience selling professional services or other outcome-based services within enterprise software organizations

  • Strong discovery, consultative selling, negotiation, and commercial acumen

  • Ability to translate business objectives into customer specific services recommendations

  • Excellent executive communication, relationship management, and cross-functional collaboration skills

  • Ability to influence without authority across customer, sales, and cross-functional stakeholders

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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