As part of the Atlassian Corporate Engineering (ACE) team at Atlassian, your role will unlock the potential of every team within the company. The ACE team delivers advanced technology and solutions that empower Atlassian teams to excel in their respective missions:
- Develop data-driven features using AI/ML and other new technologies.
- Build GTM solutions that fuel the growth of the Atlassian business.
- Ensure success of important 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 product/program technical strategy. You will create long-term vision for the team and associated roadmap for your areas of ownership. You will build consensus among partners. You will use deep domain and technical expertise to ensure success of large cross organization programs. You will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of fundamental challenges, shape technical requirements and collaborate with partners to develop comprehensive solutions. You will influence solution architecture to meet the latest needs of the business and contribute to programs and process across organizational boundaries.
- Define the strategic goals for areas owned, communicate value proposition to partners and ensure support.
- Anticipate challenges, create long-term vision and associated road map for areas of ownership.
- Take ownership of strategic but ambiguous plans, bring clarity by translating them to well defined goals that engineering teams can achieve.
- Provide technical leadership on engineering programs and lead the end to end the delivery of complex programs across multiple teams, balancing the right tradeoffs and ensuring successful outcomes.
- Use deep technical skills and domain knowledge to influence department leaders on strategic direction.
- Define and track improvement to metrics for quality and performance across complex projects involving many teams.
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years of leadership experience on software teams as Development Manager or TPM
- Experience delivering complex projects or solutions that span different groups within an organization
- Excellent verbal and written skills and ability to present to all levels in an organization
- System design knowledge and domain expertise in the area you operate - TPMs are not expected to write or read code, but are expected to understand system flows, block architectures, APIs and such.