Senior Principal Technical Program Manager - Agent Infrastructure

Atlassian Corp.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 235,000 - 308,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlassian offers a Senior Principal Technical Program Manager role with flexible work arrangements in the United States. You will analyze business objectives, translate them into technical problems, and define a long-term roadmap for platform components in collaboration with stakeholders.

You will lead end-to-end, cross-functional programs, coordinating with engineers and architects while prioritizing tasks and managing dependencies to deliver impactful outcomes.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience on software teams as Development Manager or Technical Program Manager
• Strategic thinking and ability to translate business objectives into technical programs
• Proven technical understanding of systems involved
• Willingness to develop deep domain expertise in the area they operate
• 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
• Deep familiarity in Conversational & Generative AI and/or Enterprise Search technologies
• Proven technical excellence in building and shipping agentic platforms and workflows

Responsibilities

• Analyze business objectives, customer needs, product adoption inhibitors and opportunities, and define long-term strategy and roadmap.
• Translate objectives into technical problems and prioritize them in the current environment.
• Define systems programs and action plans to realize those programs.
• Partner with engineers and architects to progress on these problems.
• Manage lifecycle from initiation to forecasting, budgeting, scheduling.
• Manage complex dependencies and cross-company projects.
• Ensure equitable compensation practices and transparent hiring within geographic pay zones.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Systems understanding

Leadership

Communication skills

Generative AI familiarity

Job description

Senior Principal Technical Program Manager

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.

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 agentic platforms, machine learning systems, enterprise search, conversational AI, performance optimization, reliability improvements, enterprise grade readiness 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

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.

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.

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

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: $235,800 - $307,850

Zone B: $212,220 - $277,065

Zone C: $195,714 - $255,516

Minimum Qualifications

12+ years of experience on software teams as Development Manager or Technical Program Manager

Strategic thinking and ability to understand business objectives to translate them into technical problems and programs

Proven technical understanding of systems involved

Willingness to develop deep domain expertise in the area they operate

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

Additional Desired Experiences

Deep familiarity in Conversational & Generative AI and/or Enterprise Search technologies

Proven technical excellence in building and shipping agentic platforms and workflows

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.

In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

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