Principal Data Scientist
Atlassian · Posted Oct 9
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
Atlassian builds team collaboration software including Jira, Confluence, and Rovo, and this role sits within the company's data science function supporting product and business analytics. The Principal Data Scientist partners with key business leads on high-impact analytics, experimentation, and product metrics work. The role involves quantitative analysis, hypothesis testing, forecasting, and communicating insights to senior leadership to shape product and business strategy.
What you will do
- Collaborate on a variety of product and business problems with a diverse set of cross-functional partners and become a trusted strategic partner through the structure and clarity of your work.
- Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, and the presentation of data to develop strategies for our business and help solve the business's biggest challenges.
- Focus on developing hypotheses through analytical approaches, different methodologies, frameworks, and technical approaches to test them.
- Define, understand, and test opportunities to improve the products and business and influence roadmaps through insights and recommendations.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to inform, influence, and execute strategy decisions
- Identify and measure the success of product efforts through forecasting and monitoring of key product metrics to understand trends.
- You will use data to shape product development, quantify new opportunities, identify upcoming challenges, and ensure the products we build bring value to people, businesses, and Atlassian.
- You will use storytelling techniques to communicate insights broadly, including to company leadership teams.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 8+ Years of Experience in Data Science or related fields
- Proficiency in SQL AND another data manipulation programming language (e.g Python, R)
- Expertise at telling stories with data and familiarity with at least one visualization tool (e.g. Tableau, R-Shiny, Microstrategy, SAP Business Objects, Looker, etc.)
- Expertise in applying a broad variety of statistical concepts (e.g. regressions, A/B tests, clustering, probability) to business problems and a strong sense of when to adapt/combine approaches to suit the problem at hand
- Experience driving projects or programs which have had proven impact on business strategy and performance through your analytics skills
- A proven track record for crafting analysis into well-written content
- Experience advising, presenting to and serving as a thought partner to senior executives
Preferred qualifications
- 10+ Years of Experience in Data Science or related fields
- An understanding of the SaaS business model and key metrics
Benefits and support
- Health and wellbeing resources
- Paid volunteer days
- Eligibility for bonuses and equity
About Atlassian
Atlassian is a leading software company that builds enterprise collaboration, project planning, and issue-tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Trello. Empowering teams across the globe, Atlassian focuses on unleashing the potential of every team through advanced workflows, cloud infrastructure, and AI-driven capabilities.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2002
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $210M raised
- 2010-07-13Venture - Series Unknown$60M
- 2014-04-10Secondary Market$150M
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief People and AI Enablement Officer
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