Principal Technical Program Manager (Analytics or AI/ML Platform)
Atlassian · Posted Oct 8
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
The Analytics Platform is Atlassian's AI-ready data backbone, enabling trusted analytics across cloud environments while simplifying the underlying architecture to make data reliable, discoverable, and cost-effective at scale. It serves as the data platform foundation for AI-native experiences such as intelligent assistants, embedded analytics, faster time to first query, and future ML use cases. As a Principal Technical Program Manager reporting to a Head of TPM, this role defines product and program technical strategy, owns the long-term vision and roadmap, and drives delivery of large cross-organization initiatives.
What you will do
- 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
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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
Benefits and support
- health and wellbeing resources
- paid volunteer days
- bonuses
- 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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