Atlassian is continuing to hire with all interviewing and on-boarding done virtually due to COVID-19. All new and existing Atlassians will continue to work from home until it’s safe to return to our offices. When our offices re-open, every Atlassian will have the choice to work from an office or from home.

In Talent, our mission is to bridge Atlassian’s business strategy with the people programs, processes, and tools that motivate and enable employees to do their best work and drive business impact. We’re looking for an experienced head of Talent Management to help craft and implement strategies, programs, and processes that attract, manage, develop, retain, and measure our awesome workforce. You will be responsible for processes such as onboarding, performance management, talent review, career management, and succession planning to ensure they are fact based and aligned with the ongoing strategic objectives of our business. This group is also responsible for leading and executing our core talent management systems, including leadership principles, growth profiles, feedback practices, and performance and growth tools.

In this role, you'll get to:

• Lead the translation of the company's strategy into thoughtful and innovative talent management plans and objectives.
• Implement and activate our new Talent Philosophy to raise the bar on performance, drive differentiation, and ensure people leader accountability for talent management.
• Continue the transformation of our performance management programs. This includes but is not limited to goal setting, quarterly growth/impact/goal conversations, continuous feedback approach, critical role, and critical talent identification, and succession planning.
• Lead all aspects of the overhaul of our global onboarding experience for new employees to welcome them to our company, introduce them to our culture, and allow them to be productive and have an impact.
• Support the launch, and technical enablement, of our new Talent Review process to assess, segment and differentiate our talent.
• Expand our Succession Planning process to include critical roles, tooling, reporting, and improved development planning.
• Lead the development of a career engagement and mobility strategy to ensure Atlassians grow in their career.
• Develop an assessment strategy for different types of assessments needed across the employee life cycle
• Work with Total Rewards to align compensation to our talent strategy and philosophy.
• In partnership with our internal communications team, develop a coordinated messaging and/or internal marketing campaign that pulls together all the great program work to deliver an impactful story that delivers on our dedication to unleash the potential of every team
• Help ensure the talent management function is a strategic partner to the business, and champion a culture of continuous learning, growth mindset and knowledge sharing.
• Be proactively curious - investigate best practices, trends and innovations; use the knowledge to help shape our annual plan and priorities.
• Lead and empower a team; provide coaching to ensure individual and team growth.
• Partner with Analytics function to deliver quality metrics that drive priorities and enable better decision-making.
• Build a strategy for future talent by leading strategic initiatives around employee mobility, remote, and grads.
• Use a customer-centric approach to design talent processes and solutions that are simple, easy and effective; optimized for scale
• Ensure a diversity, equity and inclusion lens is applied to all our processes and programs. 

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

• 10+ years of strategic Human Resources, Talent Management, Organizational Development, Learning or related experience, gained in innovative companies with outstanding talent management practices.
• Successful track record in building, implementing, and sustaining key talent management initiatives and showing direct, positive linkages to the achievement of business strategy.
• Experience in building and delivering a broad talent management agenda with specific subject matter expertise in talent management.
• Experience leading a global team.
• Exhibits high levels of resourcefulness, influence, organizational savviness, execution skills (strategy through implementation) and executive presence. Must be effective at sharing ideas and information with peers and business leaders.
• Strong collaboration and influence skills to partner with HR Business Partners and Executive Business Leaders
• Considerable experience leading large-scale, complex change and transformation
• Self-directed leader with experience at designing and rapidly implementing new tools and processes and ability to handle numerous projects concurrently
• Substantial problem-solving skills with a strategic focus on process mapping, task management, and execution

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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.