Senior Principal Technical Program Manager

Atlassian•Seattle, WA

7d•$195,714 - $307,850•Remote

About The Position

Atlassian can hire people in any country where they have a legal entity. Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities.

Requirements

12+ years of experience on software teams as Development Manager or Technical Program Manager
Strategic thinking and ability to understand business objectives to translate them into technical problems and programs
Proven technical understanding of systems involved
Willingness to develop deep domain expertise in the area they operate
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

Deep familiarity in Conversational & Generative AI and/or Enterprise Search technologies
Proven technical excellence in building and shipping agentic platforms and workflows

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 agentic platforms, machine learning systems, enterprise search, conversational AI, performance optimization, reliability improvements, enterprise grade readiness 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.
Be 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.