Principal Enterprise Delivery Manager, Migrations

Atlassian; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 149,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Principal Enterprise Delivery Manager to guide complex customer transitions to the cloud. This role involves strategic advisory, project management, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless migration experiences.

Benefits

Health and wellbeing resources

Paid volunteer days

Qualifications

• Over 10 years of experience as a technical program/delivery manager.
• Proven track record in ensuring delivery excellence.

Responsibilities

• Identify technical deployment and transformation opportunities.
• Manage high-risk projects, ensuring successful outcomes.
• Lead architecture efforts to address complex technical needs.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Communication

Technical Guidance

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in engineering

Job description

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

The Principal Enterprise Delivery Manager is responsible for ushering Atlassian's largest, most complex customers through their transition into the cloud, ensuring their migration journey and cloud experience are seamless. As the primary stakeholder, you will act as a reliable strategic advisor and thought leader to senior customer decision-makers, while also taking on the role of chief delivery manager, showcasing your technical expertise and program governance skills.

You will work closely with customer key stakeholders and cross-functional teamsincluding Sales, Solutions, Support, Product Management, Channel Partners, and Engineeringto ensure effective communication, align priorities, and coordinate joint initiatives.

This role requires proven expertise in developing and influencing customer cloud strategies, combined with strong leadership and collaboration skills. You will identify potential challenges and implement effective solutions, utilizing your extensive experience to guide teams toward positive outcomes. By maintaining a clear vision of project goals and milestones, you will ensure that the team stays focused and efficient, effectively overcoming obstacles to achieve successful results.

• Customer Engagement: Identify technical deployment and transformation opportunities by evaluating customer environments and engaging with business and technical leaders. Coordinate with account teams to deliver briefings on technical solutions and strategies.
• Solution Architecture: Lead architecture efforts to address complex technical needs, managing dependencies to enable cohesive customer scenarios.
• Technical Guidance: Provide deployment guidance and best practices. Design migration and upgrade plans, address hesitancies, and secure customer commitment.
• Resource Management: Ensure optimal resource engagement and execution of the Migration Execution Plan.
• Project Delivery: Manage high-risk projects, ensuring successful outcomes. Collaborate with customers and partners to create comprehensive project plans with defined milestones and goals.
• Stakeholder Communication: Communicate effectively with stakeholders to foster a shared understanding and commitment to objectives. Enhance collaboration and drive process improvements with cross-functional teams.
• Steering Committee Leadership: Lead meetings and plan reviews to guide project direction. Maintain communication with stakeholders to advocate for the team and meet customer objectives.
• Risk Management: Oversee high-risk migration projects, align project plans with goals, identify potential risks, and implement mitigation plans.
• Coordination with Support and Engineering: Ensure on-time delivery of migration execution against customer expectations by coordinating with support and engineering teams.
• Escalation Management: Act as the escalation point for customers to drive urgency on critical blockers during migrations.
• Team Leadership: Foster a cohesive team environment, promote trust and accountability, organize workflow, delegate tasks, and provide mentorship for continuous development.
• Industry Insight: Stay ahead of industry trends and integrate insights into customer interactions. Propose innovative solutions to business challenges.

• Extensive experience with enterprise-scale cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture design, large-scale migrations, and technology management.
• Proven track record in ensuring delivery excellence and maintaining high data quality standards.
• Strong ability to influence customer decision-making through expertise in delivery knowledge and value discussions.
• Capability to serve as a technical lead, providing guidance on customer deliverables and architecture to peer architects.
• Skilled in communicating and negotiating effectively with senior-level decision-makers and c-suite executives.
• Demonstrated leadership, teamwork, and mentorship skills that enhance team learning and engagement.
• Over 10 years of professional experience as a technical program/delivery manager responsible for complex technology projects for enterprise customers.
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in engineering, computer science, or equivalent work experience.

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $179,800 - $239,800

Zone B: $161,800 - $215,800

Zone C: $149,300 - $199,000

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

Our perks & benefits

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

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.