Senior Technical Program Manager

Working at Atlassian
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Join Atlassian's SPEAR (Scale, Performance, Efficiency, Availability, and Reliability) team, where your role will be pivotal in enhancing the efficiency and performance of Atlassian's suite of products. The SPEAR team is dedicated to developing technology and systems that ensure Atlassian products achieve optimal performance and reliability for our customers.

• Mission Statement: Drive cost-efficient systems that support scalable performance, reliability, and effective capacity management across Atlassian's diverse product portfolio.
• Key Goals: Build enterprise grade performant cloud experiences , where every millisecond saved multiplies our customers' productivity.
• Innovation Focus: Identify and implement data-driven features using AI/ML technologies to enhance product quality and maintain cost-effective operations.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager within the SPEAR team, reporting to the Head of TPM, you will lead and manage complex technical programs that directly impact Atlassian family of products performance as we ship. You will leverage your extensive technical experience to understand product architectures, assess risks, and collaborate on mitigation strategies to ensure high-quality product releases. Key responsibilities include:

1. Strategic Planning: Collaborate with stakeholders to develop long-term strategies and roadmaps for platform improvements.
2. Program Management: Define and execute technical programs focused on performance optimization and prevention.
3. Technical Collaboration: Partner with engineers and architects to address technical challenges and drive solutions.
4. Risk and Communication: Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and communicate project status to stakeholders.

• 5+ 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• B.S. in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or Technical Discipline
• Ability to drive change through building systems, frameworks and/or platforms
• Understanding of building end to end pre and post deployment systems for quality
• Strong leadership, organizational and communication skills
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, collaborative and ambiguous start-up like environments where thoughtfulness, an entrepreneurial mindset, persistent execution and relationships drive success

Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. 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: $171,700 - $229,000
Zone B: $154,500 - $206,100
Zone C: $142,500 - $190,000
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
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.
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
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 .