Principal Technical Program Manager - Developer Infrastructure & Productivity

Atlassian is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to support its Developer Infrastructure & Productivity teams. The role shapes and delivers complex, high-priority technical programs, aligns senior leaders across functions, and establishes operating mechanisms that drive measurable customer and business outcomes.

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 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

Requirements:

• 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
• A B.S. in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or Technical Discipline