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This is a remote position based in Australia or New Zealand. With a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we're able to hire eligible candidates for this role who are based in any location in Australia and New Zealand.

Your future team

This Senior Principal Technical Program Manager will partner with the Head of Engineering to lead the UI Platform. You'll report to the Head of TPM for Core Engineering. As a founding member of the UI TPM team you will bring leadership necessary to transform and lead the UIP strategy.

The UI Platform (UIP) team creates platforms, tools, and services for developers, designers, and content designers to create a consistent experience across Atlassian's products. This is a unique opportunity to influence important technical decisions across the company. You will work with world-class engineering teams and experts to build UI Platform and tools while breaking down technical barriers and strengthening existing systems.

This is an Individual Contributor role that could evolve in to a People Management role due to the potential growth of the team that we envision. As a senior member of the TPM team, you will also shape the TPM craft, which is still in a formation stage. We expect our TPM's to demonstrate attributes in the following three pillars: 1. Strong technical depth, 2. Ability to shape product strategy, 3. Drive execution in close collaboration with stakeholders across numerous crafts and product areas.

What you'll do

• Analyse the current state of UI Platform, business goals, customer needs, product adoption inhibitors, and industry trends

• Based on the above analysis, in close collaboration with your stakeholders you'll define a long-term strategy and roadmap for UIP.

• Ensure translation of the strategy and platform/product requirements into technical requirements and solutions in collaboration with your partner teams and engineering counterparts.

• Streamline the execution of the articulated roadmap. Drive adoption/usage of the platform and tools across Atlassian product teams.

• As a leader for the UI Platform, including platform and products, programs, customer scenarios - you will proactively identify any inhibitors, issues or opportunities, and proactively address them or find the right owners to do so.

• As a senior member of the UIP team, you will drive some of the most complex, cross-divisional projects, with complex dependencies and broad scope across the company

Your background

• 12+ years experience working with software teams, with recent experience leading platform / software teams.

• 3+ years of People Management experience

• Experience building commercial Cloud Services / Platforms

• Experience in designing and building back end software systems, including tradeoffs, launching and scaling. Using this technical expertise and in partnership with your senior engineering stakeholders you'll be able to influence the backend system design, architecture, and build.

• Experience leading strategy and execution on complex, cross divisional, technical programs, including analysing business priorities, customer needs, industry trends and articulating a long-term roadmap.

• Experience driving projects spanning multiple teams, including reaching agreements with your engineering partners and stakeholders, shepherding the projects while identifying and mitigating risks, making trade-off decisions optimising the outcome

• Able to translate customer and/or product requirements into technical requirements

Our perks & benefits

Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.

About Atlassian

At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.

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