Lead Principal Technical Program Manager

Atlassian - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Senior

Seattle, WA

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Lead Principal Technical Program Manager for Foundations at Atlassian is a senior individual contributor role responsible for overseeing critical company-wide initiatives across foundational technical areas such as Compute, Network, Data Platform, Identity, Security, and Reliability. This position requires innovative thinking and collaborative problem-solving skills to influence and make significant technical decisions while working with world-class engineering teams. The role also involves shaping the Technical Program Management (TPM) craft within the organization, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs, and driving the execution of a long-term strategy and roadmap for the Foundations area.

Responsibilities

• Analyze the current state of Foundations, business objectives, customer needs, and industry trends to define a long-term strategy and roadmap.
• Translate strategy and platform/product requirements into technical requirements and solutions in collaboration with partner teams and engineering counterparts.
• Streamline the execution of the articulated roadmap and promote the adoption of the platform and tools across Atlassian.
• Proactively identify inhibitors, issues, or opportunities within your platforms and products, addressing them or finding the right owners to do so.
• Drive complex, cross-divisional projects and initiatives, managing dependencies and projects with a broad scope across the company.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience on software teams as a Technical Program Manager, Engineer, Engineering Manager, or Product Manager.
• Experience analyzing business priorities, customer needs, and industry trends to articulate a long-term roadmap.
• Ability to translate customer and product requirements into technical requirements.
• Influence architecture or technical design leveraging subject matter expertise and technical depth.
• Experience driving projects spanning multiple organizations, including negotiating and reaching agreements with partners and stakeholders.

Nice-to-haves

• Rich experience building large-scale commercial Cloud Services and PaaS.

Benefits

• Health coverage
• Paid volunteer days
• Wellness resources
• Flexible work options (office, home, or hybrid)