Sr. Technical Program Manager
As part of the ACE team at Atlassian, your role will unlock the potential of every team within the company. The ACE team within Atlassian is responsible for delivering advanced technology and solutions that empower Atlassian teams to excel in their respective missions like
- Power data driven decision making by developing innovative solutions including using AI/ML and other leading-edge technologies
- Building state-of-the-art GTM solutions that fuel the growth of the Atlassian business
- Ensuring success of critical business decision-making processes by delivering enterprise-grade solutions across finance, commerce, people and workplace domains.
As a Technical Program Manager, reporting to a Head of TPM on the ACE team you will define and manage technical program goals and success metrics. You will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of fundamental business challenges, shape technical requirements according to business needs and collaborate with stakeholders to develop comprehensive solutions. You will utilize your technical expertise to comprehend product architecture, identify potential risks, collaborate on mitigations needed to ensure successful delivery of the solution per business requirements. You will be accountable for creating the plan, communicating status effectively to stakeholders, managing risk in execution and ensuring successful completion of project.
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: $171,800 - $229,000
Zone B: $154,600 - $206,100
Zone C: $142,600 - $190,100
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.
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: $171,800 - $229,000
Zone B: $154,600 - $206,100
Zone C: $142,600 - $190,100
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.
What you will 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
Minimum Qualifications
- 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:
- A B.S. in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or Technical Discipline
- (Hiring Manager to add here any specific skills or experience they require for a given position)