Project Manager, Jira Platform

Job Description

Atlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity, assuming candidates have eligible working rights and a sufficient timezone overlap with their team. As our offices re-open, Atlassians can choose to work remotely or return to an office, unless it’s necessary for the role to be performed in the office. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company. With a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we’re able to hire eligible candidates for this role from any location in Australia and New Zealand. If this sparks your interest, apply today and chat with our friendly Recruitment team further. Atlassian is seeking a Project Manager to boost the effectiveness of our teams in Sydney, Australia and Bengaluru, India by leading key technical programs, championing delivery success and operationalising the product development processes in order to make our delivery hum with effectiveness and efficiency. R&D Program Managers at Atlassian build trusted networks, seek clarity and deliver complex cross-functional programs as seamlessly as single team projects. Like air traffic controllers they shepherd the safe, orderly, and swift flow of initiatives at Atlassian. As the ideal Project Manager, you are a dynamic individual who champions delivery excellence, thrives in making order out of moving parts and understands the importance of the teamwork it takes to make programs successful. Alongside leaders and colleagues in the Program Management team, you will develop and apply practices, plays, and agile frameworks to ensure successful project delivery and build pathways for autonomous, empowered, and lasting teams. A bit about the team: The Jira Platform teams aim to make Jira Cloud fast and capable for enterprises so that we can support these valuable customers and their ever growing needs. Our enterprise customers represent our biggest growth opportunity. The features that are planned in this area are: performance, compliance, scale and decomposition. The Jira Platform owns multiple key customer experiences that are used across all Jira products. They are on a mission to provide a fast, reliable, and easy-to-use issue experience that helps every team capture, collaborate on, and move work forward. Teams building Atlassian's major cloud products and platforms all rely on a robust, reliable platform to shepherd their code from development to production, while maintaining the high standards for our code quality and deployment practices. As a Project Manager for Issue Experience, you will understand the 'why' behind strategic plans and manage work to execute on them. You will guide reporting mechanisms, craft communications for various audiences (including executives), set processes for cross team projects, and/or jump into a team to help connect and unblock teams. To be successful in this role you will be able to engage with many cross-functional teams (with varying perspectives!), to shepherd projects aligned to the strategic plan. You will need to deeply understand Atlassian's priorities, and relate them to company level business goals. You are a centre of team spirit, and you craft and implement pathways to up-level the teams working toward a common strategy. Does this sound exciting to you? You might be the person we're looking for.

You Will:

• Run priority programs, to influence the overall success of the Jira Platform strategy.
• Clearly communicate for impact across teams, functions and programs - ensuring broad understanding of status, risks, dependencies, and insights.
• Ensure the teams you work with are planning and setting the right goals, and executing on those goals efficiently following good tracking and standardised reporting methods.
• Negotiate across many teams and stakeholders to broker commitments and program roadmaps, driving a high degree of predictability; re-baselining based on new information and effectively managing complex dependencies.
• Proactively surface program issues and risks early while ensuring clear understanding and resolution/mitigation plans are in place.
• Work directly with Engineering leaders on technically complex programs of work

About you:

• You love running cross-functional projects in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment
• You are an excellent collaborator specifically with software teams and communicator that can expertly influence and coach change across teams
• You’re a multiplier, passionate about software product teams, with a focus on teamwork and how we can work better together
• You are able to prioritise and ask the right questions
• You promote a healthy ‘measure twice, cut once’ decision making culture
• You know when to run with something on your own and when to ask for help

On your first day, we'll expect you to have:

• You have relevant professional experience, demonstrating success as a Project Manager in a dynamic environment with globally distributed teams.
• A track record of setting appropriate expectations, crisp execution, and on-time delivery
• You have the ability to balance priorities among the long-term vision and short-term execution strategy.
• You have experience working directly with Engineering leaders on technically complex programs of work, fostering a shared understanding between technical and non-technical team members
• You are familiar with Agile methodologies and are able to draw upon best practices, patterns and agile frameworks to build pathways for autonomous, empowered, and lasting teams for a future Atlassian.
• You are comfortable with change and ambiguity, and can creatively think on your feet to adapt.
• Attention to detail: successful history of closing loops and delighting customers

More about our benefits Whether you work in an office or a distributed team, Atlassian is highly collaborative and yes, fun! To support you at work (and play) we offer some fantastic perks: ample time off to relax and recharge, flexible working options, five paid volunteer days a year for your favourite cause, an annual allowance to support your learning & growth, unique ShipIt days, a company paid trip after five years and lots more. More about Atlassian Creating software that empowers everyone from small startups to the who’s who of tech is why we’re here. We build tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Trello to help teams across the world become more nimble, creative, and aligned—collaboration is the heart of every product we dream of at Atlassian. From Amsterdam and Austin, to Sydney and San Francisco, we’re looking for people who want to write the future and who believe that we can accomplish so much more together than apart. At Atlassian, we’re committed to an environment where everyone has the autonomy and freedom to thrive, as well as the support of like-minded colleagues who are motivated by a common goal to: Unleash the potential of every team . Additional Information We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians is the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. Atlassian is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to all individuals participating in the application and interview process, and while performing job functions. Please note that you will have the opportunity to request accommodations at each stage of the assessment process. To request accommodations before scheduling an interview, please reach out to [email protected] and someone will follow up shortly. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can rock the role, we’d love to learn more about you. Learn more about Atlassian’s culture, interviewing flow, and hiring process by checking out our Candidate Resource Hub . Apply for this job