Sr Principal Technical Program Manager - Enterprise and Emerging

Atlassian•Seattle, WA

55d

About The Position

Atlassian is seeking a Senior Principal Technical Program Manager to shape and deliver high-priority, complex programs across its Enterprise and Emerging Businesses. This is a senior individual-contributor role with department- and portfolio-level scope. The role turns ambiguous business and technical problems into clear strategies, aligns senior leaders across functions, and establishes operating mechanisms that deliver measurable customer and business outcomes. The position partners with leaders across Product, Engineering, Design, GTM, Finance, Legal, Security, IT, and Transformation. Work spans near-term market-facing launches and multi-year platform, migration, monetization, and operating-model transformations. The role is accountable for outcomes, elevates program-management practices through reusable systems and mechanisms, and coaches others. It reports to the Head of Program Management for Enterprise and Emerging and is part of the Program Management Technical craft. Atlassians may work from an office, from home, or a combination of the two. Atlassian can hire in countries where it has a legal entity. The role may be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity. U.S. base-pay ranges for new hires are $229,500–$299,625 in Zone A, $206,550–$269,663 in Zone B, and $190,485–$248,689 in Zone C.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in technical program management, product/program leadership, software development, engineering operations, or a related discipline.
Experience owning complex, multi-team or portfolio-level initiatives with organization-wide influence and sustained impact over multiple quarters or years.
Proven success delivering large-scale technology programs, product launches, platform integrations, migrations, monetization initiatives, or enterprise-readiness programs.
Strong understanding of software development and technology delivery, including modern development practices, Agile methodologies, dependency management, technical risk, and operational readiness.
Ability to translate business strategy into executable plans, measurable outcomes, and clear senior-leadership decisions.
Exceptional executive communication skills, including synthesizing complex scenarios, surfacing trade-offs, and communicating precisely to senior audiences.
Experience influencing Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, Legal, Security, IT, and other partner organizations without direct authority.
Strong systems-thinking skills and a record of improving operating models, program mechanisms, organizational effectiveness, or delivery quality at scale.
Experience using data, customer insight, and business metrics to assess progress, make trade-offs, and demonstrate realized impact.
Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience in enterprise SaaS, cloud transformation, AI-enabled products, platform adoption, or complex product ecosystems.
Experience leading company-wide or business-unit-wide change across global teams and multiple time zones.
Experience with consumption-based pricing, usage-based metrics, product integrations, enterprise migrations, or customer lifecycle transformation.
Experience building or scaling a program-management community of practice, talent model, or operating framework.
Experience partnering with senior executives and presenting recommendations in high-stakes forums.
Experience working in Enterprise companies and driving significant product integrations and platform adoption across business units and time zones.
Background in data analytics and insights, with the ability to interpret complex data sets and translate findings into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

Set direction for and drive a portfolio of strategic programs, connecting company priorities to integrated plans, measurable outcomes, and executive decisions.
Orchestrate end-to-end delivery across Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, Legal, Security, IT, and external partners, managing dependencies, risks, trade-offs, and readiness.
Frame ambiguous problems, establish decision forums and operating cadence, clarify ownership, and align stakeholders when priorities, incentives, or technical constraints conflict.
Lead strategic launches and transformations, including market-facing launches, product integrations, enterprise-readiness efforts, platform migrations, pricing or monetization changes, and other initiatives with material impact.
Build trusted relationships with leaders and executive stakeholders; provide fact-based recommendations, escalate issues appropriately, and drive decisions to closure.
Create scalable planning, dependency-management, risk, readiness, governance, and benefits-realization mechanisms to improve predictability and delivery.
Define success metrics and use qualitative and quantitative insights to track customer outcomes, adoption, revenue, operational health, delivery performance, and program value.
Mentor and enable program managers, share best practices, and help evolve technical program management across R&D and the broader company.
Mobilize teams without formal authority and foster accountability, transparency, momentum, and effective teamwork.
Establish an integrated view of strategic programs, including outcomes, dependencies, risks, and decision needs.
Deliver one or more high-impact programs or transformations with evidence of customer, revenue, or operational impact.
Improve executive visibility and decision velocity through concise reporting, effective governance, and clear escalation paths.
Introduce at least one reusable program-management mechanism that improves predictability or reduces cross-team delivery friction.
Build durable senior-leader partnerships and become a trusted operator for ambiguous, cross-functional portfolio problems.