Principal Technical Program Manager - Developer Infrastructure & Productivity
About The Position
This is a senior level individual contributor role with department- and portfolio-level scope. You will bring clarity to ambiguous business and technical problems, align senior leaders across functions, and establish the operating mechanisms that turn strategy into measurable customer and business outcomes. You will partner with leaders across Product, Engineering, Design, R&D, Finance, Legal, Security, IT, and Transformation and your work will span multiple teams and time horizons. You will be accountable for outcomes, not simply project plans, and will elevate the program-management craft through reusable systems, mechanisms, and coaching.
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
Nice To Haves
- A B.S. in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or Technical Discipline
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
Benefits
- health and wellbeing resources
- paid volunteer days
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
Associate degree
